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- 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.
- Ensure that release candidates include artifacts for the new Connect test-plugins module (see
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KIP-405: Kafka Tiered Storage |
| core | A major part went out with 3.6.0. A minor part of the KIP is to be completed in 3.7.0. | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-890: Transactions Server-Side Defense |
| core | Part 1 Completed | ||||||||||||||||
| streams | Partially implemented in 3.6 | |||||||||||||||||
KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance |
| core | Majority was completed in 3.6. The remaining minority will be done now in 3.7.0 | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-580: Exponential Backoff for Kafka Clients |
| clients | Implemented Plan to release it in 3.7.0 | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-770: Replace "buffered.records.per.partition" & "cache.max.bytes.buffering" with "{statestore.cache}/{input.buffer}.max.bytes" |
| streams | Partly implemented, PRs open for the rest but needs reviews | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-858: Handle JBOD broker disk failure in KRaft |
| core | KIP Accepted Implementation not yet completed | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-980: Allow creating connectors in a stopped state |
| connect | KIP is being voted on (2/3 binding so far) | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-963: Upload and delete lag metrics in Tiered Storage |
| core | Under discussion. Targetting 3.7 | ||||||||||||||||
KIP-976: Cluster-wide dynamic log adjustment for Kafka Connect |
| connect | KIP Accepted |
Postponed to subsequent release
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