Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.10.2.0.
This is a minor version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 19 new KIPs. See the release notes and release plan ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+0.10.2.0) for more details. A few feature highlights: SASL-SCRAM support, improved client compatibility to allow use of clients newer than the broker, session windows and global tables in the Kafka Streams API, single message transforms in the Kafka Connect framework. Release notes for the 0.10.2.0 release: http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday February 6th 5pm PST *** (Note the longer window to vote to account for the normal 7 days ending in the middle of the weekend.) Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~ewencp/kafka-0.10.2.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 0.10.2 branch) is the 0.10.2.0 tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=33ebac1f138f17b86002df05e55a9f5cff47f48a * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/0102/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 0.10.2 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-0.10.2-jdk7/60/ System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka-branch-builder/697 Thanks, Ewen Cheslack-Postava
