Hi all,
I tested the native (GraalVM) image apache/kafka-native:4.4.0-rc4
- Ran these examples from docker/examples; in each, the brokers started
and producing and consuming worked:
- single-node plaintext
- single-node sasl_plaintext
- single-node ssl
- cluster/combined sasl_plaintext (three brokers)
(SASL on the native image fails in 4.3.x (and earlier versions) fixed in
4.4.)
+1 (non-binding) for the native Docker image
Regards,
Murali
On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reminder Michael will wait till Monday then
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 8 Oct 2026, at 18:56, Mickael Maison <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Omnia,
> >
> > Votes should run for at least 72 hours.
> > So we need to wait a bit longer before closing it and finalizing the
> release.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mickael
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks to Omnia for driving this release!
> >>
> >> <[email protected]> 於 2026年10月9日週五 上午1:25寫道：
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Nice RC4 passed with 3 binging votes and update the PR on Kafka-site
> with
> >>> RC4 docs
> >>> Will merge the docs and promote RC4 as final release
> >>>
> >>> Thanks everyone and sorry for taking long to get this release out there
> >>>
> >>> Omnia
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>>> On 8 Oct 2026, at 12:35, Luke Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Omnia,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for running this release.
> >>>>
> >>>> I did the following:
> >>>> - Run quickstart using the artifacts in java 17
> >>>> - Browsed the document
> >>>> - Browsed the java doc
> >>>> - Run quick start using JVM docker image
> >>>>
> >>>> +1 (binding) from me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you,
> >>>> Luke
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> +1 (binding)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Verified:
> >>>>> - signatures and sha512 of the src, binary and site-docs tarballs
> >>>>> - signatures of the maven staging artifacts (16 files across
> >>>>> kafka-clients, kafka-streams, kafka_2.13, kafka-server,
> kafka-metadata,
> >>>>> kafka-raft, connect-runtime, kafka-group-coordinator). All signed by
> the
> >>>>> primary key, so the RC3 issue is fixed
> >>>>> - tag 4.4.0-rc4 matches the 4.4 branch head and the CI run
> >>>>> - unit and integration tests from the source tarball
> >>>>> - binary tarball: KRaft format/start, metadata.version 4.4-IV2,
> >>>>> produce/consume with classic, consumer and share protocols,
> verifiable
> >>>>> producer/consumer with acks=all
> >>>>>
> >>>>> non-blocking note:
> >>>>> - kafka-site #905 was generated on 9/22, so it is missing the later
> docs
> >>>>> changes on 4.4 (#23565, #23479) and the KAFKA-21134 fix (#23671,
> trunk
> >>>>> only). It should be regenerated from the final tag before the release
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for running the release, Omnia.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 2026-10-07 09:09 UTC Omnia Ibrahim wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
> >>>>>> This is the latest candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.4.0.
> >>>>>> Apache Kafka 4.4.0 is a minor release that includes 26 KIPs spanning
> >>>>> improvements to all components.
> >>>>>> Release notes for the 4.4.0 release:
> >>>>>
> >>>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.4.0-rc4/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> >>>>>> *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, Oct 12, 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/4.4.0-rc4/
> >>>>>> Docker release artifacts to be voted upon:
> >>>>>> apache/kafka:4.4.0-rc4
> >>>>>> apache/kafka-native:4.4.0-rc4
> >>>>>> 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/4.4.0-rc4/javadoc/index.html
> >>>>>> Tag to be voted upon (off 4.4 branch) is the 4.4.0 tag:
> >>>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.4.0-rc4
> >>>>>> Documentation:
> >>>>>> PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905
> >>>>>> Protocol:
> >>>>>> PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905
> >>>>>> Successful CI builds for the 4.4 branch:
> >>>>>> Unit/integration tests:
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/37496670106
> >>>>>> System tests: <PENDING>
> >>>>>> Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.4 branch:
> >>>>>> Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM):
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/37591376291
> >>>>>> Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native):
> >>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/37591376291
> >>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>> Omnia
> >>>
>
