Hi Christo, At least for me, it was a bit confusing from the email thread whether there would be another RC or not.
But I did some smoke testing with the staged binaries, and I also ran the Strimzi test suite against it. All seems to work fine. So +1 non-binding from me. Thanks for running the release. Regards Jakub On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM Christo Lolov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > A polite bump on this thread. Are there any concerns with the current > release candidate or are people happy to cast votes? > > Best, > Christo > > On Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 14:12, Christo Lolov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > Apologies for the delay, I wasn’t around a computer these last few days. > > Let’s cherry-pick it after 4.0.1 unless there is a strong ask from a > couple > > more people? > > > > Best, > > Christo > > > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 at 04:53, Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> hi Christo > >> > >> Kevin found a compatibility issue (KAFKA-19719) that causes an error > when > >> using `controller.quorum.voters` together with > `--no-initial-controllers`. > >> Admittedly, that is a strange usage, but it worked in 3.9.0 since > >> `--no-initial-controllers` was treated as a no-op. > >> > >> The bug was introduced in 3.9.1 and 4.0.0, and a patch is already > >> available. Do you want to include the patch in 4.0.1, or should I do the > >> cherry-pick after 4.0.1 is released? > >> > >> Best, > >> Chia-Ping > >> > >> > >> On 2025/09/11 10:09:00 Christo Lolov wrote: > >> > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > >> > > >> > This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.0.1. > >> > > >> > Since this is a patch version it contains the bug fixes outlined in > the > >> > release notes below! > >> > > >> > Release notes for the 4.0.1 release: > >> > > >> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.1-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > >> > > >> > *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday September 17. > >> > > >> > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > >> > https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS > >> > > >> > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > >> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.1-rc2/ > >> > > >> > * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: > >> > apache/kafka:4.0.1-rc2 > >> > apache/kafka-native:4.0.1-rc2 > >> > > >> > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > >> > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > >> > > >> > * Javadoc: > >> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.1-rc2/javadoc/ > >> > > >> > * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.0 branch) is the 4.0.1 tag: > >> > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.0.1-rc2 > >> > > >> > * Successful CI builds for the 4.0 branch: > >> > Unit/integration tests: > >> > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/17586456207 > >> > > >> > * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.0 branch: > >> > Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): > >> > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/17586731957 > >> > Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): > >> > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/17587113226 > >> > > >> > * Documentation updates for website and Javadocs > >> > - https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/719 > >> > - https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/723 > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Christo > >> > > >> > > >
