Re: [VOTE] 2.4.0 RC2

[Ismael Juma <is...@juma.me.uk>]

We have a pull request for KAFKA-9156, which fixes a critical regression
introduced in 2.3.0. I think we should include this in the next (and
hopefully final) 2.4.0 RC.

Ismael

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:31 PM John Roesler <vv...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I hate to do this, but I've been running a soak test of Kafka Streams on
> 2.4 and uncovered a number of small bugs that lead to Streams losing
> threads until there are none left. This condition only arises when using
> EOS in a highly flaky networking environment.
>
> I've included a lot of details in KAFKA-9231, in particular my last
> comment:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9231?focusedCommentId=16985429&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16985429
>
> Please take a look and see if you agree whether it warrants cutting a new
> RC early next week once the fix is merged.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Manikumar wrote:
> > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
> >
> > This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0.
> >
> > This release includes many new features, including:
> > - Allow consumers to fetch from closest replica
> > - Support for incremental cooperative rebalancing to the consumer
> rebalance
> > protocol
> > - MirrorMaker 2.0 (MM2), a new multi-cluster, cross-datacenter
> replication
> > engine
> > - New Java authorizer Interface
> > - Support for non-key joining in KTable
> > - Administrative API for replica reassignment
> > - Sticky partitioner
> > - Return topic metadata and configs in CreateTopics response
> > - Securing Internal connect REST endpoints
> > - API to delete consumer offsets and expose it via the AdminClient.
> >
> > Release notes for the 2.4.0 release:
> > https://home.apache.org/~manikumar/kafka-2.4.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> >
> > *** Please download, test and vote by Thursday, December 5th, 9am PT
> >
> > 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/~manikumar/kafka-2.4.0-rc2/
> >
> > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
> > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/
> >
> > * Javadoc:
> > https://home.apache.org/~manikumar/kafka-2.4.0-rc2/javadoc/
> >
> > * Tag to be voted upon (off 2.4 branch) is the 2.4.0 tag:
> > https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.4.0-rc2
> >
> > * Documentation:
> > https://kafka.apache.org/24/documentation.html
> >
> > * Protocol:
> > https://kafka.apache.org/24/protocol.html
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Manikumar
> >
>