Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.0.2.
Since this is a patch version it contains the bug fixes outlined in the release notes below! Release notes for the 4.0.2 release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.0.2-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Friday 27. 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/4.0.2-rc1/ * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: apache/kafka:4.0.2-rc1 apache/kafka-native:4.0.2-rc1 * 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/4.0.2-rc1/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.0 branch) is the 4.0.2 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.0.2-rc1 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/40/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/40/protocol.html * Successful CI builds for the 4.0 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22062188033 System tests: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlVfSLFqZNjcsEJ1ZHwEXChyGqVWHasS?usp=sharing Out of the 5 failures 3 were flaky (rerun was successful) and 2 are persistent. I checked them back against 4.0.1 and 3.9.1 and they seem to be present throughout the releases, so not new failures: - tests/kafkatest/tests/core/network_degrade_test.py::NetworkDegradeTest.test_rate@ {"task_name":"rate-1000-latency-50","device_name":"eth0","latency_ms":50,"rate_limit_kbit":1000000,"metadata_quorum":"COMBINED_KRAFT"} - tests/kafkatest/tests/tools/replica_verification_test.py::ReplicaVerificationToolTest.test_replica_lags@ {"metadata_quorum":"ISOLATED_KRAFT"} * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.0 branch: Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22062306029 Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/22062316512 Thanks, Viktor
