+1 (non-binding) ... I used the staged binaries and checked it with different clients.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:17 AM Dong Lin <lindon...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
