Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
This is the seventh candidate for release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0.
* Configurable TCP connection timeout and improve the initial metadata fetch
* Enforce broker-wide and per-listener connection creation rate (KIP-612,
part 1)
* Throttle Create Topic, Create Partition and Delete Topic Operations
* Add TRACE-level end-to-end latency metrics to Streams
* Add Broker-side SCRAM Config API
* Support PEM format for SSL certificates and private key
* Add RocksDB Memory Consumption to RocksDB Metrics
* Add Sliding-Window support for Aggregations
This release also includes a few other features, 53 improvements, and 91
bug fixes.
*** Please download, test and vote by Monday, December 21, 12 PM 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://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc6/
* Maven artifacts to be voted upon:
https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/
* Javadoc:
https://home.apache.org/~bbejeck/kafka-2.7.0-rc6/javadoc/
* Tag to be voted upon (off 2.7 branch) is the 2.7.0 tag:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.7.0-rc6
* Documentation:
https://kafka.apache.org/27/documentation.html
* Protocol:
https://kafka.apache.org/27/protocol.html
* Successful Jenkins builds for the 2.7 branch:
Unit/integration tests:
https://ci-builds.apache.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Kafka%2Fkafka-2.7-jdk8/detail/kafka-2.7-jdk8/81/
Thanks,
Bill
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