Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for feature release of Apache Kafka 2.1.0.
This is a major version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 28 new KIPs and critical bug fixes. Please see the Kafka 2.1.0 release plan for more details: *https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91554044* <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91554044> Here are a few notable highlights: - Java 11 support - Support for Zstandard, which achieves compression comparable to gzip with higher compression and especially decompression speeds(KIP-110) - Avoid expiring committed offsets for active consumer group (KIP-211) - Provide Intuitive User Timeouts in The Producer (KIP-91) - Kafka's replication protocol now supports improved fencing of zombies. Previously, under certain rare conditions, if a broker became partitioned from Zookeeper but not the rest of the cluster, then the logs of replicated partitions could diverge and cause data loss in the worst case (KIP-320) - Streams API improvements (KIP-319, KIP-321, KIP-330, KIP-353, KIP-356) - Admin script and admin client API improvements to simplify admin operation (KIP-231, KIP-308, KIP-322, KIP-324, KIP-338, KIP-340) - DNS handling improvements (KIP-235, KIP-302) Release notes for the 2.1.0 release: http://home.apache.org/~lindong/kafka-2.1.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote *** * 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/~lindong/kafka-2.1.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~lindong/kafka-2.1.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.1 branch) is the 2.1.0-rc0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/2.1.0-rc0 * Documentation: *http://kafka.apache.org/21/documentation.html* <http://kafka.apache.org/21/documentation.html> * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/21/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.1 branch: Unit/integration tests: *https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.1-jdk8/38/ <https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.1-jdk8/38/>* Please test and verify the release artifacts and submit a vote for this RC, or report any issues so we can fix them and get a new RC out ASAP. Although this release vote requires PMC votes to pass, testing, votes, and bug reports are valuable and appreciated from everyone. Cheers, Dong
