Pierre, Thanks for picking this up, I agree with getting a release candidate going soon. I will look at the Kafka bug issue. The Local Changes improvement looks useful, although I would not hold on that if everything else is ready.
Regards, David Handermann On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM Pierre Villard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Team, > > I think we should get a 2.8.0 release candidate going forward as we > have a few users being hit by the known issue around Azure components. > I am happy to take care of the release duties. > > Are there some PRs that we believe should be absolutely included? > From my point of view the Kafka bug fix [1] and the Show Local Changes > improvement [2] are two PRs that would be good to have since both have > been reported by the community. > > Some additional ones would be nice-to-have but not blockers. > > Thanks, > Pierre > > [1] https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/10769 > [2] https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/10681 > > Le mer. 21 janv. 2026 à 08:53, Fabian Reiber <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > Hi, > > > > thanks for your work and your offer for comments. > > > > It would be nice to get the fix for issue [NIFI-15464] in the new 2.8.0 > > release :) > > > > Best Regards > > Fabian Reiber > > > > [NIFI-15464] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-15464 > > > > On 1/20/26 5:33 PM, Kevin Doran wrote: > > > Thanks, Pierre. Sounds good to me. > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Very nice! Look forward to the vote. > > >> > > >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 8:59 AM David Handermann < > > >> [email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Pierre, > > >>> > > >>> Thanks for initiating this discussion, I agree that the NiFi API is in > > >>> a good place for another minor release, setting the foundation for a > > >>> NiFi 2.8.0 release version. There has been a lot of progress on the > > >>> development branches for the Connector work, but it makes sense to > > >>> continue with these incremental releases before any of those changes > > >>> have landed. > > >>> > > >>> Regards, > > >>> David Handermann > > >>> > > >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 9:38 AM Pierre Villard > > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Team, > > >>>> > > >>>> We merged a few changes for the NiFi API (parameter tags, properties > > >>>> migration for registry clients and parameter providers, and recording > > >>>> gauges). I will proceed with a release candidate for the NiFi API > > >>>> later today. > > >>>> > > >>>> Once released, I think we should quickly follow-up with a NiFi 2.8.0 > > >>>> release to include the NiFi API version change but also to release a > > >>>> few important bug fixes (already 110+ issues with NiFi 2.8.0). However > > >>>> there are some PRs that we likely want to get merged before preparing > > >>>> the release candidate. Feel free to comment in this thread if some > > >>>> specific PRs should have special attention for this release. > > >>>> > > >>>> Thanks, > > >>>> Pierre > > > > -- > > Fabian Reiber, M.Sc. (Entwicklung interner Software) > > Phone: +49 40 808077-555 Fax: +49 40 808077-556 Mail: [email protected] > > > > DFN-CERT Services GmbH, https://www.dfn-cert.de/, Phone +49 40 808077-555 > > Sitz/Register: Hamburg, AG Hamburg, HRB 88805, Ust-IdNr.: DE 232129737 > > Nagelsweg 41, 20097 Hamburg, Germany. CEO: Dr. Klaus-Peter Kossakowski > > > >
