Thanks Chia for starting the thread and for the support with my first release process,
I had a quick look into open and resolved issues on jira and I can see we have 66 resolved tickets. 43 open tickets (with status not resolved, or closed) The KIPs I can see marked for 4.4.0, have sub-tasks marked for 4.4.0 or remaining followups are KIP-1191: Dead-letter queues for share groups <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1191%3A+Dead-letter+queues+for+share+groups> majority of it has been resolved and marked for 4.4.0 except single remaining jira which in progress KIP-892: Transactional Semantics for StateStores <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-892%3A+Transactional+Semantics+for+StateStores> is also marked for 4.4.0 but it has too many in-progress tasks at the moment KIP-1263: Group Coordinator Assignment Batching and Offload <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1263%3A+Group+Coordinator+Assignment+Batching+and+Offload> it has a couple of open jiras one of them marked for 4.4.0 Single resolved jira for KIP-1226: Introducing Share Partition Lag Persistence and Retrieval <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1226%3A+Introducing+Share+Partition+Lag+Persistence+and+Retrieval> Open Jira for KIP-1298: Per-Resource-Type Authorization for LIST_CONFIG_RESOURCES <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1298%3A+Per-Resource-Type+Authorization+for+LIST_CONFIG_RESOURCES?src=jira> but this still under discussion Open Jira for KIP-1170: Unify cluster metadata bootstrapping <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1170%3A+Unify+cluster+metadata+bootstrapping?src=jira> Open Jira for KIP-1260: Enable ProducerPerformance to abort transactions <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1260%3A+Enable+ProducerPerformance+to+abort+transactions> but this still under discussion KIP-939: Support Participation in 2PC <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-939%3A+Support+Participation+in+2PC> marked for 4.4.0 but I can it still has couple of jiras still not resolved Some open jiras as followup for KIP-853 Best Omnia > On 13 May 2026, at 11:21, Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > While there are still a few pending RCs, I'd like to start the discussion > for the 4.4.0 Release Manager. Omnia has raised her hand offline, and we > (myself and our team) are fully committed to supporting her throughout her > first release process. > > Of course, please feel free to shout out if anyone else is also interested > in volunteering or co-managing this release. > > Best, Chia-Ping
