Voting is closed and RC4 passed by 4 binding (David, Chia-Ping, Luke, Mickeal) 2 non-binding (Murali, Maros)
Thanks everyone for voting. Will prepare the announcement and PR doc now. Omnia > On 10 Oct 2026, at 13:29, Maroš Orsák <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have run our Strimzi test container tests on ARM and did a few smoke > tests. I didn't find any issues so: > > +1 (non-binding), > > Thanks, > Maros > > pi 9. 10. 2026 o 11:18 Mickael Maison <[email protected]> napísal(a): > >> Hi, >> >> I check the signatures and checksums, and ran the quickstart with the >> binary (Java 20) and both docker images. >> >> +1 (binding) >> >> Thanks, >> Mickael >> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 11:38 PM Muralidhar Basani via dev >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>> >>
