Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.4.0. Some of the major features include: * KIP-881: Rack-aware Partition Assignment for Kafka Consumers <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-881%3A+Rack-aware+Partition+Assignment+for+Kafka+Consumers> * KIP-876: Time based cluster metadata snapshots <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-876%3A+Time+based+cluster+metadata+snapshots> * KIP-787: MM2 manage Kafka resources with custom Admin implementation. <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=191335620> * KIP-866 ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-866+ZooKeeper+to+KRaft+Migration> (Early Access) For a full list of the features in this release, please refer to the release notes: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday, Jan 18th, 2023. Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://home.apache.org/~davidarthur/kafka-3.4.0-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 3.4 branch) is the 3.4.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.4.0-rc0 * Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/34/documentation.html * Protocol: https://kafka.apache.org/34/protocol.html The Jenkins unit/integration for 3.4 is currently experiencing spurious timeouts. The recent build history of 3.4 shows some green builds. https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.4/. If we get a solid all-green build, I'll update this thread. System tests are currently running, we'll send out results once they are available. A big thanks to Sophie for running this release!
