[RESULTS] [VOTE] Release Kafka version 2.8.0

[John Roesler <vv...@apache.org>]

This vote passes with 6 +1 votes (4 binding) and no 0 or -1
votes.

+1 votes
PMC Members:
* Bill Bejeck
* Randall Hauch
* Colin McCabe
* John Roesler

Community:
* Israel Ekpo
* Satish Duggana

0 votes
* No votes

-1 votes
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Vote thread:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd7888d15a6db647b5c6a96ec1afd6cd47f11237a8f41340ae8af6b15%40%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E

I'll continue with the release process and the release
announcement will follow in the next few days.

Thanks,
John Roesler

On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 15:04 -0500, John Roesler wrote:
> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
> 
> This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka
> 2.8.0.This is a major release that includes many new
> features, including:
> 
>  * Early-access release of replacing Zookeeper with a
>    self-managed quorum
>  * Add Describe Cluster API
>  * Support mutual TLS authentication on SASL_SSL listeners
>  * Ergonomic improvements to Streams TopologyTestDriver
>  * Logger API improvement to respect the hierarchy
>  * Request/response trace logs are now JSON-formatted
>  * New API to add and remove Streams threads while running
>  * New REST API to expose Connect task configurations
>  * Fixed the TimeWindowDeserializer to be able to
>    deserialize
>    keys outside of Streams (such as in the console consumer)
>  * Streams resilient improvement: new uncaught exception
>    handler
>  * Streams resilience improvement: automatically recover
>    from transient timeout exceptions
> 
> Release notes for the 2.8.0 release:
> https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> 
> *** Please download, test and vote by 19 April 2021 ***
> 
> 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/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc2/
> 
> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/
> 
> * Javadoc:
> https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc2/javadoc/
> 
> * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.8 branch) is the 2.8.0 tag:
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.8.0-rc2
> 
> * Documentation:
> https://kafka.apache.org/28/documentation.html
> 
> * Protocol:
> https://kafka.apache.org/28/protocol.html
> 
> * Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.8 branch:
> Unit/integration tests:
> https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/2.8/
> (still flaky)
> 
> System tests:
>  
> 
> https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.8/6
> 0/ 
>  
> 
> http://confluent-kafka-2-8-system-test-results.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2021-04-14--001.1618407001--confluentinc--2.8--1b61272d45/report.html
> 
> /**************************************
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
>