Hello all, Voting is closed and RC3 passed by 4 binding (Chia-Ping, Mickael, Bill, David) 2 non-binding (Jakub, Eric)
Best Regards, Jiunn-Yang > Eric Chang <[email protected]> 於 2026年10月13日 下午4:33 寫道： > > Hi Jiunn-Yang, > > Thanks for running the release. I verified 4.3.2-rc3 as follows: > > - Verified the SHA512 checksums and GPG signatures of the source and > binary tarballs. They are signed by Jiunn Yang Huang, whose key is > in KEYS. > - Built from source with JDK 17 (./gradlew clean build -x test). > - Ran the clients and core unit tests. All core tests passed. One > clients test failed once (SaslAuthenticatorTest > .testValidSaslScramMechanisms). It passed in 5 reruns, and > SaslAuthenticatorTest is already flaky on Develocity, so I think it > is a flaky test. > - Started a KRaft broker from the binary tarball with JDK 17. Produced > and consumed with none, gzip, snappy, lz4 and zstd compression. > - Started apache/kafka:4.3.2-rc3 and apache/kafka-native:4.3.2-rc3 > with the default config (using podman). Produce and consume work on > both. > - Ran the full system tests on the rc3 commit (0a6c96d3): > https://jenkins.opensource4you.tw/job/kafka-e2e/975/ > 1116 tests, 1103 passed, 11 failed. I checked the logs of all 11 > failures. They are known flaky tests or timing issues, and none of > them is related to this release. > > +1 (non-binding) > > Best, > Eric > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM David Jacot <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Jiunn-Yang, >> >> Thanks for running the release. >> >> I did the following to validate RC3: >> - Verified the signatures and checksums of the source, binary, site-docs >> and release notes artifacts, and of all the staged Maven artifacts >> - Checked that the source tarball matches the 4.3.2-rc3 tag >> - Built from source and ran the unit tests with JDK 17 and JDK 25 >> - Ran the quickstart with the binary on JDK 17 and JDK 25, with classic >> and consumer groups >> - Did a rolling upgrade of a 3-node combined cluster from 4.3.1 to >> 4.3.2 while producing and consuming (classic and consumer groups) >> - Ran the apache/kafka and apache/kafka-native images >> - Built a small producer/consumer/admin app against the staged Maven >> artifacts and ran it with JDK 17 and JDK 25 >> - Spot checked the release notes, Javadoc and documentation >> >> +1 (binding) >> >> Best, >> David >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM Bill Bejeck <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>>
