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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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Open Issues

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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.

KIPJIRAComponentStatus
KIP-405: Kafka Tiered Storage

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-7739

core

Majority is completed.

Remaining to be done in 3.7.0

KIP-793: Allow sink connectors to be used with topic-mutating SMTs

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-13431

connectCompleted
KIP-797: Accept duplicate listener on port for IPv4/IPv6

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-13299

core
InProgress
Completed
KIP-868 Metadata Transactions

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-14305

core

Completed

KIP-
726: Make the "cooperative-sticky, range" as the default assignor
875: First-class offsets support in Kafka Connect

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-4107

connect

Completed

In prior releases: connector STOPPED state, offsets read API

In this release: Offsets alter and reset APIs

KIP-890: Transactions Server-Side Defense

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-14402

core

Part 1 Completed

KIP-898: Modernize Connect plugin discovery

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

12473

14627

connect
clients

Completed

KIP-
770: Replace "buffered.records.per.partition" with "input.buffer.max.bytes"
902: Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.8.2

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
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13152

14661

core
streams
Completed

KIP-

797: Accept duplicate listener on port for IPv4/IPv6

917: Additional custom metadata for remote log segment

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serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

13299

15107

core
KIP-813: Shareable State Stores

Completed

KIP-923: Add A Grace Period to Stream Table Join

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-14936

streams

KIP Accepted

Implementation seems to be completed but yet to be confirmed by author.

KIP-925: Rack aware task assignment in Kafka Streams

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

10892

15022

streams
KIP-821: Connect Transforms support for nested structures

Partially implemented in 3.6

KIP-937: Improve Message Timestamp Validation

Jira
serverASF JIRA
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serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-14991

core

Completed

KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-15183

core

KIP Accepted

Majority is completed. Remaining to be done in 3.7.0

KIP-863: Reduce CompletedFetch#parseRecord() memory copy

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

13656

14944

clients
connect

Completed

KIP-

866 ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration

930: Rename ambiguous Tiered Storage Metrics

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

14304

15245

core

Completed

KIP-

875: First-class offsets support in Kafka Connect

941: Range queries to accept null lower and upper bounds

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-15126

streams

Completed


Postponed to subsequent release

KIPJIRAComponentStatus
KIP-580: Exponential Backoff for Kafka Clients

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

4107

9800

clients
connect

Completed

In prior releases: connector STOPPED state, offsets read API

In this release: Offsets alter and reset APIs

Implemented

Plan to release it in 3.7.0

KIP-726: Make the "cooperative-sticky, range" as the default assignor

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-12473

clients

KIP Accepted

Implementation not yet completed

KIP-770: Replace "buffered.records.per.partition" with "input.buffer.max.bytes"

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-13152

streams

KIP Accepted

Implementation in progress, not yet reviewed.

KIP-813: Shareable State Stores
KIP-898: Modernize Connect plugin discovery

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

14627

10892

streams

KIP Accepted

Implementation not yet completed.

connect

KIP-
917: Additional custom metadata for remote log segment
821: Connect Transforms support for nested structures

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

15107coreInProgress

13656

connect

KIP Accepted

Implementation in progress

KIP-
944: Support async runtimes in consumer
852: Optimize calculation of size for log in remote tier

Jira
serverASF JIRA
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columnskey,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-14038

core

KIP Accepted

Partially completed

KIP-919: Allow AdminClient to Talk Directly with the KRaft Controller Quorum and add Controller Registration

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-15230

core

KIP Accepted

Not yet completed

KIP-925: Rack aware task assignment in Kafka Streams

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-15022

streams

Partially implemented in 3.6

KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-

14972

15183

consumer

KIP under discussion, implementation available

Postponed to subsequent release

core

KIP Accepted

Majority is completed. Remaining to be done in 3.7.0

KIP-872: Add Serializer#serializeToByteBuffer() to reduce memory copying

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-14945

clients

KIP Accepted

Not yet completed

KIP-949: Add flag to enable the usage of topic separator in MM2 DefaultReplicationPolicy

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-15102

mirrormaker

KIP Accepted

Not yet completed for 3.6.0.

KIPJIRA