Status

Current state: "Under DiscussionAdopted"

Discussion thread: here

JIRA: None (don't think this needs a Jira ticket)

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• Have a release 3.8.x after 3.7.0
  • The aim of this release would be KRaft strategic feature parity with Zookeeper
• Once 3.8.0 is branched, immediately start with the 4.0.x release
• 3.8.x would be the last minor release within the 3.x series.

This assumes all must have features / KIPs are implemented in 3.8. Otherwise we would need to inject a 3.9 version in between 3.8 and 4.0

Scope

The following KIPs were identified by the community as blockers items that would need to be present in a 3.x release before moving to a potential 4.0 release.

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Release 4.0.0: 3 to 4 months after 3.8 branch is created

This assumes all must have features / KIPs are implemented in 3.8. Otherwise we would need to inject a 3.9 version in between 3.8 and 4.0

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

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