[VOTE] 2.7.2 RC0

[Mickael Maison]

Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,

This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.7.2.

Apache Kafka 2.7.2 is a bugfix release and 26 issues, as well as
CVE-2021-38153, have been fixed since 2.7.1.

Release notes for the 2.7.2 release:
https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.7.2-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html

*** Please download, test and vote by Friday, October 15, 5pm CET

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-2.7.2-rc0/

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

* Javadoc:
https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.7.2-rc0/javadoc/

* Tag to be voted upon (off 2.7 branch) is the 2.7.2 tag:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.7.2-rc0

* Documentation:
https://kafka.apache.org/27/documentation.html

* Protocol:
https://kafka.apache.org/27/protocol.html

* Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branch:
I'll share a link once the build completes


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Thanks,
Mickael

[Israel Ekpo]

Mickael,

For patch or bug fix releases like this one, should we exclude the Javadocs and site docs if they have not changed?

https://github.com/apache/kafka-site

The site docs were last changed about 6 months ago and it appears it may not have changed or needs validation 

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[Mickael Maison]

Hi Israel,

Our tooling generates the same template for all types of releases.

For bugfix releases, the site docs and javadocs don't typically
require extensive validation.
It's still a good idea to open them up and check a few pages to
validate they look right.

For this release, as you've mentioned, site docs have not changed.

Thanks

[Mickael Maison]

Successful Jenkins build:
https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka-2.7-jdk8/181/

[Israel Ekpo]

Hi Mickael,

I am pretty surprised that there are no votes so far on the RCs and the deadline has already passed.

I am running my checks right now using the process outlined here

https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party#how-to-validate-apache-kafka-release-candidates

I will post my results and vote as soon as they are completed.

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[Israel Ekpo]

I have performed the following checks

Validation of Release Artifacts Cryptographic Hashes (ASC MD5 SHA1 SHA512) 

PGP Signatures used to sign the release artifacts

Javadocs check

Site docs check was not necessary

Jenkins build was successful.

I used the steps here for the first two checks

https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party

I vote +1 on this RC

[Israel Ekpo]

Mickael,

Do we need to do another RC? Were there issues with this release?  

What happens next?

[Bill Bejeck]

Hi Mickael,

Thanks for running the release.

Steps taken

1. Validated checksums
2. Validated signatures
3. Built from source
4. Ran all the unit tests
5. Spot checked various JavaDocs

+1(binding)

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 4:43 AM Luke Chen <sho...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mickael,

Thanks for the release. I did:
1. Verified checksums and signatures
2. Run quick start steps
3. Verified the CVE-2021-38153 is indeed fixed in kafka-2.7.2-src.tgz
<https://home.apache.org/~mimaison/kafka-2.7.2-rc0/kafka-2.7.2-src.tgz>.

+1 (non-binding)

Thank you.
Luke

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 3:41 PM Tom Bentley <tben...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Mickael,
>
> As with 2.6.3 RC0, I have:
>
> * Verified checksums and signatures
> * Built jars and docs from the source jar
> * Run the unit and integration tests
>
> +1 non-binding
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tom

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kafka-clients/CA%2BOCqnaojtzhaG5tY%3DvMsqzD8e4jXPMsCktEvf7PtcaRsNH2xg%40mail.gmail.com
> > >>> .
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
>

[Israel Ekpo]

Thanks Bill. That is greatly appreciated :)

We need more PMC members with binding votes to participate. 

You can do it! 

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[Mickael Maison]

Bumping the thread.

Contributors, committers and PMC, please take some time to test this
release candidate and vote.

Thanks,
Mickael

[Manikumar]

Hi,

+1 (binding)

- verified the signatures
- verified the quickstart with binary

Thanks for running the release!

Thanks,
Manikumar