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Release Dates
(all are in 2023)
- KIP Freeze: 22nd November (Wednesday)
- A KIP must be accepted by this date in order to be considered for this release. Note, any KIP that may not be implemented in a week, or that might destabilize the release, should be deferred.
- Feature Freeze: 6th December (Wednesday)
- major features merged & working on stabilisation, minor features have PR, release branch cut; anything not in this state will be automatically moved to the next release in JIRA
- Code Freeze: 20th December (Wednesday)
- At least two weeks of stabilization will follow Code Freeze, meaning we expect to release no earlier than January 3rd. We will move as fast as we can, and aim completion the earliest we can in January.
These dates are goals and subject to change, but we expect to stay on the Time Based Release Plan unless unexpected critical issues come up. While the earliest possible release date is 2w after code freeze, release candidates (RCs) will roll out as needed until the release vote passes.
The release manager is Stanislav Kozlovski
How to Contribute
Before code freeze:
- Participate in votes and discussions to land or postpone the open KIPs.
- Review patches. We anticipate that this release, as it usually happens, will be bottlenecked mostly on reviews. The more reviewers, the more content we can fit in.
- Write unit/integration/system tests. We want to preserve the tradition of high-quality releases in Apache Kafka.
After code freeze:
- Write more unit/integration/system tests. We want to preserve the tradition of high-quality releases in Apache Kafka.
- Improve documentation.
- Test the release candidates.
- Open blocker JIRAs on critical issues found. Open non-blocker JIRAs on any other issues found.
- Fix critical bugs.
- Review bug fixes.
- Vote on release candidates. Even though only PMC votes are binding, community votes are super important as we evaluate the readiness of the release.
Open Issues
Also, feel free to refer to the 3.7.0 release page for more details of the included tickets (requires logging in to the Apache Kafka Jira project).
Planned KIP Content
Note: The planned content is not binding - the final content will be based on the features committed by the branch-cutting date.
See Kafka Improvement Proposals for the full list of KIPs.
If you do not see your KIP here and want to, please reply to the mailing list thread about the release!
Postponed to subsequent release
| KIP | JIRA | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIP-759: Unneeded repartition canceling | streams | KIP accepted | |
| KIP-892: Transactional Semantics for StateStores | streams | KIP accepted | |
| KIP-910: Update Source offsets for Source Connectors without producing records | Vote thread restarted on Nov 15 but no activity | ||
| KIP-912: Support decreasing send's block time without worrying about metadata's fetch | Vote thread started Nov 13 - no activity | ||
| KIP-913: add new method to provide possibility for accelerate first record's sending | Vote thread started Nov 13 - no activity | ||
| KIP-953: partition method to be overloaded to accept headers as well | Vote didn't pass | ||
| KIP-956 Tiered Storage Quotas |
| core | Discussion started Nov 22 (KIP Freeze Date) |
| KIP-967: Support custom SSL configuration for Kafka Connect RestServer | Vote didn't pass | ||
| KIP-969: Support range interactive queries (IQv2) for versioned state stores | streams | ||
| KIP-977: Partition-Level Throughput Metrics | 2/3 binding votes on Nov 22 - didn't make the KIP Freeze | ||
| KIP-982: Enhance Custom KafkaPrincipalBuilder to Access SslPrincipalMapper and KerberosShortNamer | Vote didn't pass. Just one binding vote | ||
| KIP-997: update WindowRangeQuery and unify WindowKeyQuery and WindowRangeQuery | streams | Vote thread started November 17. Didn't get any votes by Nov 22 | |
| KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance |
| core | Accepted. Majority was completed in 3.6. The remaining minority was planned to be done in 3.7.0, but it slipped (no PR opened) |
| KIP-998: Give ProducerConfig(props, doLog) constructor protected access |
| clients | KIP Accepted No PR merged for 3.7. Slipped |