+1 -- Matteo Merli <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM Lari Hotari <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to discuss initiating the first milestone release for Pulsar > 5.0, 5.0.0-M1. > > The purpose of a milestone release is to allow users to start testing > the new release functionality early and provide feedback. Milestone > releases are not meant for production use cases, since breaking > changes can be introduced between the milestone releases and the final > LTS release. > > For Pulsar 5.0, the main new feature is Scalable Topics (PIP-460 and > related PIPs). > > PIPs in Pulsar 5.0.0-M1: > > - PIP-460: Scalable Topics (Topics v5) > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-460.md > - PIP-463: Migrate Build System from Maven to Gradle > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-463.md > - PIP-465: Split IO Connectors into Separate Repository > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-465.md > - PIP-466: New Java Client API (V5) with Scalable Topic Support > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-466.md > - PIP-467: Adopt slog for structured logging across Pulsar > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-467.md > - PIP-468: Scalable Topic Controller > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-468.md > - PIP-469: Legacy-aware topic policies backend routing and > metadata-store topic policies > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-469.md > - PIP-472: Migrate from javax.* to jakarta.* APIs > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-472.md > - PIP-473: Metadata-Driven Transactions for Scalable Topics > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-473.md > - PIP-475: Regular-to-Scalable Topic Migration > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-475.md > - PIP-483: Scalable Topic Auto Split/Merge > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pip/pip-483.md > > Merged PRs included in the milestone > https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone%3A5.0.0-M1 > > Unless there are any objections, I'll create a release candidate for > 5.0.0-M1 as soon as possible. > > -Lari
