Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.0.1.
This is a bug fix release closing 49 tickets: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+2.0.1 Release notes for the 2.0.1 release: http://home.apache.org/~manikumar/kafka-2.0.1-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, October 30, end of day 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/~manikumar/kafka-2.0.1-rc0/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * Javadoc: http://home.apache.org/~manikumar/kafka-2.0.1-rc0/javadoc/ * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.0 branch) is the 2.0.1 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.0.1-rc0 * Documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/20/documentation.html * Protocol: http://kafka.apache.org/20/protocol.html * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.0 branch: Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.0-jdk8/177/ /************************************** Thanks, Manikumar