Hi Jiunn-Yang, Thanks for running the 4.3.2 release.
I did the following to validate RC3: - Verified checksums (md5/sha1/sha512) and GPG signatures - Artifacts: source, binary, site-docs, RELEASE_NOTES - Signed by Jiunn Yang Huang <[email protected]> - Key 062C22C0F467AF9A02D512B5504473FAF80CBBCB - Verified GPG signatures of the Maven staging artifacts - 65 modules, all signed with the same key as the tarballs - Built from source with JDK 17 - Ran the core, clients and streams unit tests - Ran quickstarts from the bundled site-docs against the binary dist - Broker quickstart - Kafka Streams WordCount quickstart - Used both the classic and streams (KIP-1071) group protocols - Ran the same quickstarts against the Docker images - apache/kafka:4.3.2-rc3 - apache/kafka-native:4.3.2-rc3 - Checked shipped jar versions for the dependency and CVE bumps - jackson-core and jackson-databind 2.21.7 - log4j 2.25.5 - jetty 12.0.37 - lz4-java 1.11.4 - snappy-java 1.1.10.11 - Exercised the rc3 dependency bumps against a local broker - lz4/snappy/zstd/gzip round trips, incl. broker recompression - Connect REST and partition reassignment JSON (Jackson) - Exercised these fixes by hand, comparing against 4.3.1 - Clients: - KAFKA-20700, KAFKA-20769 - Streams: - KAFKA-20464 - Group coordinator: - KAFKA-20434 - Docs still reference 4.3.1 quickstart etc - not a blocker we can do a follow-up PR. +1 (binding) Thanks, Bill On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 6:20 AM Mickael Maison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did the following testing: > - checked signatures and checksums > - built from source > - ran quickstart with Java 20 and both docker images > > Just one nit: the javadoc were generated with <html lang="zh">, so > most browsers bring up the translation dialog when you open them > > + (binding) > > Thanks, > Mickael > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM Jakub Scholz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > +1 (non-binding). I used the staged binaries and Maven artifacts to run > my > > smoke tests & the Strimzi tests. All seems to work fine. Thanks for > running > > the release. > > > > Thanks & Regards > > Jakub > > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM 黃竣陽 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > > > > > This is the fourth 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-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > < > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc/RELEASE_NOTES.html> > > > > > > Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, October 14th, 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-rc3/ < > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.2-rc/> > > > > > > * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: > > > apache/kafka:4.3.2-rc3 > > > apache/kafka-native:4.3.2-rc3 > > > > > > * 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-rc3/javadoc/index.html > > > > > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.3 branch) is the 4.3.2-rc3 tag: > > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.3.2-rc3 > > > > > > * 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/38121352442 > > > 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/38107480297 > > > Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): > > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/38107494688 > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Jiunn-Yang Huang >
