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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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Note: The planned content is not binding - final content will be based the features committed by branch-cutting date. See Kafka Improvement Proposals for the full list of KIPs.
InProgress580: Exponential Backoff for Kafka Clients9800| clients | Accepted
Implementation in progressCompleted In prior releases: connector STOPPED state, offsets read API In this release: Offsets alter and reset APIs |
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726: Make the "cooperative-sticky, range" as the default assignor12473clients770: Replace "buffered.records.per.partition" with "input.buffer.max.bytes"13152streams793: Allow sink connectors to be used with topic-mutating SMTs13431connectInProgress797: Accept duplicate listener on port for IPv4/IPv613299813: Shareable State Stores10892 | streams | KIP Accepted Implementation seems to be completed but yet to be confirmed by author. |
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821: Connect Transforms support for nested structures13656 | streams | Partially implemented in 3.6 |
connect866 ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration| 937: Improve Message Timestamp Validation | | Jira |
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14304875: First-class offsets support in Kafka Connect4107connectIn prior releases: connector STOPPED state, offsets read API
In this release: Offsets alter and reset APIs
KIP-898: Modernize Connect plugin discovery14627
Postponed to subsequent release
connect902: Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.8.114661core| clients | KIP Accepted Implementation |
under review917: Additional custom metadata for remote log segment15107core | InProgress | streams | KIP Accepted Implementation in progress, not yet reviewed. |
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925: Rack aware task assignment in Kafka Streams15022944: Support async runtimes in consumer| 852: Optimize calculation of size for log in remote tier | | Jira |
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KIP-919: Allow AdminClient to Talk Directly with the KRaft Controller Quorum and add Controller Registration | | Jira |
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-14972consumer | KIP under discussion, implementation available | Postponed to subsequent release