[VOTE] 2.0.0 RC1

[Rajini Sivaram]

Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,

This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.0.0.

This is a major version release of Apache Kafka. It includes 40 new  KIPs and

several critical bug fixes. Please see the 2.0.0 release plan for more details:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=80448820

A few notable highlights:

• Prefixed wildcard ACLs (KIP-290), Fine grained ACLs for CreateTopics (KIP-277)
  
• SASL/OAUTHBEARER implementation (KIP-255)
• Improved quota communication and customization of quotas (KIP-219, KIP-257)
• Efficient memory usage for down conversion (KIP-283)
• Fix log divergence between leader and follower during fast leader failover (KIP-279)
• Drop support for Java 7 and remove deprecated code including old scala clients
• Connect REST extension plugin, support for externalizing secrets and improved error handling (KIP-285, KIP-297, KIP-298 etc.)
• Scala API for Kafka Streams and other Streams API improvements (KIP-270, KIP-150, KIP-245, KIP-251 etc.)

Release notes for the 2.0.0 release:

http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html

*** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, July 3rd, 4pm PT

Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:

http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS

* Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary):

http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc1/

* Maven artifacts to be voted upon:

https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/

* Javadoc:

http://home.apache.org/~rsivaram/kafka-2.0.0-rc1/javadoc/

* Tag to be voted upon (off 2.0 branch) is the 2.0.0 tag:

https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/2.0.0-rc1

* Documentation:

http://kafka.apache.org/20/documentation.html

* Protocol:

http://kafka.apache.org/20/protocol.html

* Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.0 branch:

Unit/integration tests: https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-2.0-jdk8/66/

System tests: https://jenkins.confluent.io/job/system-test-kafka/job/2.0/15/

Please test and verify the release artifacts and submit a vote for this RC
or report any issues so that we can fix them and roll out a new RC ASAP!

Although this release vote requires PMC votes to pass, testing, votes, and bug
reports are valuable and appreciated from everyone.

Thanks,

Rajini

[Manikumar]

looks like maven artifacts are not updated in the staging repo. They are still at old timestamp.

https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/kafka_2.11/2.0.0/

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[Rajini Sivaram]

Hi Manikumar,

Thank you for pointing that out, I had forgotten to drop the old artifacts. New artifacts should be there now.

Regards,

Rajini

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