Hello all, Thanks for testing the 4.3.2-rc0 release. However, there are a few critical issues that have been fixed and backported since 4.3.2-rc0 was released. I'll prepare a new RC with these changes included.
Best Regards, Jiunn-Yang > Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> 於 2026年10月5日 凌晨1:52 寫道： > > Hi Jiunn-Yang, > > Thanks for running the release. I verified 4.3.2-rc0 as follows: > > Checksums (md5/sha1/sha512) and signatures of all artifacts, plus the staged > kafka-clients Maven artifacts. Signed by > 062C22C0F467AF9A02D512B5504473FAF80CBBCB, which is in KEYS. > Source tarball matches the 4.3.2-rc0 tag (bc6c0af7). > Shipped jar versions match the dependency bumps and LICENSE-binary. > jline-remote-telnet is no longer shipped. > Ran the full test suite from source with JDK 25. All passed; only a few known > flaky tests needed a retry. > Smoke tested the binary with JDK 25: KRaft broker, produce/consume, consumer > group, Streams WordCount with the streams protocol, and Connect > FileStreamSource. > Ran produce/consume against both Docker images. > > I noticed that 4.3 has two commits after the RC tag (#23669 and #23627). > Please double check whether they are intended for 4.3.2. > > +1 (binding) > > Thanks, > Chia-Ping > > On 2026-09-29 12:22 UTC 黃竣陽 wrote: >> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, >> >> This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.3.2. >> >> This is a bugfix release in 4.3 line. >> >> Release notes for the 4.3.2 release: >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html >> >> Please download, test and vote by Friday, October 2nd, 9am PT >> >> Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: >> https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/KEYS >> >> * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/ >> >> * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: >> apache/kafka:4.3.2-rc0 >> <https://hub.docker.com/layers/apache/kafka/4.3.2-rc0/images/sha256-aad4e610fcbbb44b142dfe89c5d1e62262d0323bba68b46092853d3ee961c719> >> apache/kafka-native:4.3.2-rc0 >> <https://hub.docker.com/layers/apache/kafka-native/4.3.2-rc0/images/sha256-aad4e610fcbbb44b142dfe89c5d1e62262d0323bba68b46092853d3ee961c719> >> >> * 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/4.3.2-rc0/javadoc/index.html >> >> * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.3 branch) is the 4.3.2 tag: >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.3.2-rc0 >> >> * Documentation: >> https://kafka.apache.org/43/documentation.html >> >> * Protocol: >> https://kafka.apache.org/43/design/protocol >> >> * Successful CI builds for the 4.3 branch: >> Unit/integration tests: >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/36498239102 >> System tests: [will provide it soon] >> >> * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.3 branch: >> Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/36444796001 >> Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/36444991180 >> >> Thanks, >> Jiunn-Yang Huang
