+1 Validated signatures, build from source and quickstart on the binaries. Looks good! Awesome release, Matthias.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 2:56 PM Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.2.0. > > - Added SSL support for custom principal name > - Allow SASL connections to periodically re-authenticate > - Command line tool bin/kafka-topics.sh adds AdminClient support > - Improved consumer group management > - default group.id is `null` instead of empty string > - API improvement > - Producer: introduce close(Duration) > - AdminClient: introduce close(Duration) > - Kafka Streams: new flatTransform() operator in Streams DSL > - KafkaStreams (and other classed) now implement AutoClosable to > support try-with-resource > - New Serdes and default method implementations > - Kafka Streams exposed internal client.id via ThreadMetadata > - Metric improvements: All `-min`, `-avg` and `-max` metrics will now > output `NaN` as default value > Release notes for the 2.2.0 release: > https://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test, and vote by Thursday, March 14, 9am PST. > > 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/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc2/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ > > * Javadoc: > https://home.apache.org/~mjsax/kafka-2.2.0-rc2/javadoc/ > > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.2 branch) is the 2.2.0 tag: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.2.0-rc2 > > * Documentation: > https://kafka.apache.org/22/documentation.html > > * Protocol: > https://kafka.apache.org/22/protocol.html > > * Jenkins builds for the 2.2 branch: > Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.2-jdk8/ > System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.2/ > > /************************************** > > Thanks, > > -Matthias > > -- *Gwen Shapira* Product Manager | Confluent 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap Follow us: Twitter <https://twitter.com/ConfluentInc> | blog <http://www.confluent.io/blog>
