hi all, We are going to cut the 4.4 branch. If your KIP is very close to completion, please remember to backport it to 4.4! KIPs without any merged PRs have already been moved out of 4.4.
Also, please feel free to raise your hand if we missed anything :) Best, Chia-Ping On 2026/05/13 11:35:04 Omnia Ibrahim wrote: > 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 > >
