Heya Justine,

Sure, I will include it in the release plan! Let me know if you encounter 
issues with implementation or reviews!

Best,
Christo

> On 30 Oct 2025, at 16:27, Justine Olshan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hey Christo
> I was wondering if we could include KIP-1228 in the 4.2 release. We have
> the required votes -- we just didn't officially close the vote yet.
> I think we should also be able to implement it in time for the feature
> freeze. What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justine
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM Christo Lolov <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> We have now passed the KIP freeze date for 4.2.0. The next goal is the
>> feature freeze on the 19th of November!
>> 
>> Feel free to reachout on this thread if your changes are not getting
>> traction to meet that date!
>> 
>> Best,
>> Christo
>> 
>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 at 11:16, Christo Lolov <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> This is to bump the 4.2.0 thread to the top of the mailing list!
>>> 
>>> The KIP freeze date is 1 week from today on the 29th of October.
>>> Please ensure that you have the required number of binding votes for
>>> your KIP by that date if you would like it included in 4.2.0.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Christo
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 15:08, Mickael Maison <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I think moving code freeze to December 10 makes sense.
>>>> Many people will be off the last 2 weeks of December, so it's best to
>>>> not have deadlines then.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mickael
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM Christo Lolov <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the review!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am okay with pulling all dates by 2 weeks earlier in time (barring
>> the
>>>>> 7th of January one). If there are no objections to the new dates I
>> will
>>>>> update them in the plan tomorrow!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Christo
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 07:14, Ismael Juma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Christo,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for managing the release and for the proposed release plan.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Given our desire to ship every 4 months, I think the proposed
>> dates should
>>>>>> be shifted a bit. The original plan was for 4.1 to ship in mid
>> July and for
>>>>>> 4.2 to ship in mid November. The former eventually shipped on
>> September 2nd
>>>>>> and with the current plan would probably result in 4.2 shipping in
>> late
>>>>>> January/early February. Given where we are, I would suggest
>> something like:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> KIP Freeze: October 29 (Wednesday)
>>>>>> Feature Freeze: November 19 (Wednesday)
>>>>>> Code Freeze: December 10 (Wednesday)
>>>>>> At least four weeks of stabilization will follow Code Freeze
>> (taking
>>>>>> holidays into account), meaning we expect to release no earlier
>> than
>>>>>> January 7 2026.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ideally, we'd get RC0 out before the holiday break and then
>> complete the
>>>>>> release by early/mid January.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ismael
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM Christo Lolov <
>> [email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would like to volunteer to be the release manager for the
>> Apache Kafka
>>>>>>> 4.2.0 release.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If no one has any objections, you can find a proposed release
>> plan at
>>>>>>> 
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+4.2.0.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Christo
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>> 

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