[VOTE] 2.6.1 RC1

[Mickael Maison]

Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,

This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.6.1.

Since RC0, the following JIRAs have been fixed: KAFKA-10705,
KAFKA-10755 and KAFKA-10706

Release notes for the 2.6.1 release:
https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html

*** Please download, test and vote by Monday, November 30, 5pm 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/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.1-rc1/

* Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/

* Javadoc:
https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.6.1-rc1/javadoc/

* Tag to be voted upon (off 2.6 branch) is the 2.6.1 tag:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.6.1-rc1

* Documentation:
https://kafka.apache.org/26/documentation.html

* Protocol:
https://kafka.apache.org/26/protocol.html

* Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.6 branch:
Unit/integration tests:
https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka-2.6-jdk8/54/

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Thanks,
Mickael