[Pulsar Community Weekly Update] 2020-08-29 ~ 2020-09-04

[Huanli Meng <hu...@streamnative.io>]

Dear Pulsar enthusiast,

This is the Pulsar community weekly update for 2020-08-29 ~ 2020-09-04,
with updates on Pulsar transaction, broker, metrics and so on.

This Pulsar community weekly update is also available at
https://streamnative.io/weekly/2020/2020-09/2020-09-04-pulsar-weekly
<https://streamnative.io/weekly/2020/2020-08/2020-08-28-pulsar-weekly>.

*All Pulsar community weekly updates are available at
**https://streamnative.io/weekly/
<https://streamnative.io/weekly/>.*
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Development
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- [Transaction] Handle acknowledgement in the transaction.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7856 (@[gaoran10](
https://github.com/gaoran10))

- [Transaction] Support aborting transaction on partitions.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7953 (@[gaoran10](
https://github.com/gaoran10))

- [Transaction] Optimize the logic for consuming transaction messages.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7833 (@[gaoran10](
https://github.com/gaoran10))

- [Topic Policy] Support setting, getting, and removing
`inactiveTopicPolicies` on the topic level.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7986 (@[315157973](
https://github.com/315157973))

- [Topic Policy] Support offload policy on the topic level.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7883 (@[315157973](
https://github.com/315157973))

- [Topic Policy] Support setting, getting, and removing `maxProducers` on
the topic level.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7914 (@[zhanghaou](
https://github.com/zhanghaou))

- [Topic Policy] Support compaction threshold on the topic level.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7881 (@[hangc0276](
https://github.com/hangc0276))









































*===============Notable Bug Fix================- [Broker] Fix NPE when
acknowledging messages at the broker side.
https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7937
<https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7937>
(@[Technoboy-](https://github.com/Technoboy-
<https://github.com/Technoboy->))- [Broker] Stop dispatching messages when
messages are skipped temporarily since the Key_Shared consumer is stuck on
delivery.        https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7553
<https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7553>
(@[equanz](https://github.com/equanz <https://github.com/equanz>))-
[Metrics] Fix Pulsar metrics that provide wrong information.
https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7905
<https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7905>
(@[315157973](https://github.com/315157973
<https://github.com/315157973>))================Event /
News================- [TGIP] Weekly live stream about Pulsar and its
ecosystem.  - All video recordings are available at
[here](https://streamnative.io/resource#tgip
<https://streamnative.io/resource#tgip>).- [Upcoming Event]  -  Pulsar
Summit Asia 2020      https://pulsar-summit.org/en/event/asia-2020
<https://pulsar-summit.org/en/event/asia-2020>  - 09/09: "Apache Pulsar:
Under the Hood for Java Developers" by Addison Higham in the Israeli Java
Community (Java.IL)    http://meetup.com/JavaIL/events/272501454/
<http://meetup.com/JavaIL/events/272501454/>================Blog /
Article================- The role of Apache BookKeeper in Apache Pulsar -
part 1 - Bartosz Konieczny  -
 https://www.waitingforcode.com/apache-pulsar/role-apache-bookkeeper-apache-pulsar-part-1/read
<https://www.waitingforcode.com/apache-pulsar/role-apache-bookkeeper-apache-pulsar-part-1/read>-
10 Reasons for Choosing Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka  -
https://maximilianmichels.com/2020/apache-pulsar-vs-apache-kafka/
<https://maximilianmichels.com/2020/apache-pulsar-vs-apache-kafka/>- Pulsar
Summit Asia 2020 CFP is now open  -
http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2020/08/25/pulsar-summit-asia-2020-cfp/
<http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2020/08/25/pulsar-summit-asia-2020-cfp/>If
we miss anything, welcome to reply to this thread, thank you.Cheers,Yong
Zhang, Huanli Meng*