[VOTE] 3.8.1 RC1

[Josep Prat]

Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,

This is the second release candidate of Apache Kafka 3.8.1.

This is a bugfix release with several fixes.

Release notes for the 3.8.1 release:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/3.8.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html

*** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, October 22, 9am ET

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://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/3.8.1-rc1/

* Docker release artifacts to be voted upon:
apache/kafka:3.8.1-rc1
apache/kafka-native:3.8.1-rc1

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

* Javadoc:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/3.8.1-rc1/javadoc/

* Tag to be voted upon (off 3.8 branch) is the 3.8.1 tag:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/3.8.1-rc1

* Documentation:

Mind that the home.apache.org server is retired now.

https://kafka.apache.org/38/documentation.html

And https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/635

* Protocol:
https://kafka.apache.org/38/protocol.html
And https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/635

* Jenkins builds for the 3.8 branch:

Unit/integration tests: There are some flaky tests, with the combination of these 4 builds all tests passed at least once:

https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.8/103/testReport/ (latest build)

https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.8/101/testReport/, https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.8/102/testReport/ and https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka/job/3.8/97/testReport/

All tests pass locally

System tests: Between these 2 runs all tests were successful:

https://confluent-open-source-kafka-system-test-results.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/3.8/2024-10-07--001.af519a09-fdc8-4d46-8478-e0280854e43e--1728373295--confluentinc--3.8--7dbc44143a/report.html

https://confluent-open-source-kafka-branch-builder-system-test-results.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/trunk/2024-10-01--001.e7b0a1be-bac1-4792-96da-ec94116e20ce--1727846843--confluentinc--3.8--99746d683a/report.html

* Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 3.8 branch:
Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/11390962530
Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/11391548205

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Thanks,

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[Josep Prat]

Hi all!

Gentle ping on this thread.

Thanks!

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Josep Prat
Open Source Engineering Director, Aiven
josep...@aiven.io   |   +491715557497 | aiven.io

Aiven Deutschland GmbH
Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin
Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa, Hannu Valtonen,
Anna Richardson, Kenneth Chen
Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B

[Josep Prat]

Hi all,

Thanks to all the reviewers!

This vote passes with 7 +1 votes (3 bindings) and no 0 or -1 votes.

+1 votes

PMC Members:

* Mickael Maison

* Luke Chen

* Chia-Ping Tsai

Community:

* TengYao Chi

* Jiunn-Yang

* Federico Valeri

* Jakub Scholz

0 votes

* No votes

-1 votes

* No votes

I'll continue with the release process and the release announcement will follow in the next few days.

Best,

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Josep Prat
Open Source Engineering Director, Aiven
josep...@aiven.io   |   +491715557497 | aiven.io

Aiven Deutschland GmbH
Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin
Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa, Hannu Valtonen,
Anna Richardson, Kenneth Chen
Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 01:12 Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote:

+1 (non-binding) ... I used the staged Scala 2.13 binaries and Maven
artifacts and run my tests. All seems to work fine. Thanks for the release.

Jakub

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 10:27 PM Josep Prat <josep...@aiven.io.invalid>
wrote:

> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
>
> This is the second release candidate of Apache Kafka 3.8.1.
>
> This is a bugfix release with several fixes.
>
> Release notes for the 3.8.1 release:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/3.8.1-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>

> **** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, October 22, 9am ET*

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