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Comment: Tweak release features

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This is a list of key features/improvements/bugfixes that we can include with release notes (WIP):

  • Drop support of Java 7 (KIP-118)
  • Java 9 support with significantly faster TLS and CRC32C implementations
  • JBOD improvements: disk failure disables the failed disk instead of the broker (KIP-112/KIP-113 part 1)
  • Improved metrics (KIP-164, KIP-168, KIP-187, KIP-188, KIP-196) and logging
  • Improve diagnostics for SASL and SSL authentication failures (KIP-152)
  • Kafka Streams API improvements (KIP-120 / 130 / 138 / 150 / 160 / 161), and drop compatibility "Evolving" annotations 

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