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Release Dates

Sep 19, 2016 (feature freeze): Release branch will be cut.

Oct 3, 2016 (code freeze): First RC will be cut

Oct 17, 2016 (final release): Estimated final release date, but RCs will roll out until the release vote passes.

The release manager is Jason Gustafson

Participate in votes and discussions to land or postpone the open KIPs
Review patches. We anticipate that this release will be bottlenecked mostly on reviews. The more reviewers, the more content we can fit in.
Write system tests. We want to preserve the tradition of high-quality releases in Apache Kafka.

Open issues for any bugs found.
Submit and/or review bug fixes.
Write system tests. We will continue accepting system tests in the release branch.

Test the release candidates
Open bugs on important issues found
Submit and/or review patches for blocking bugs
Vote on RCs. Even though only PMC votes are binding, community votes are super important as we evaluate the readiness of the release

Note: The planned content is not binding - final content will be based the features committed by branch-cutting date.

KIP	Content	Status
KIP-4 (incomplete)	CreateTopics and DeleteTopics request APIs	Committed
KIP-33	Add time-based log index	Committed
KIP-60	Make Java client classloading more flexible	Committed
KIP-62	Allow consumer to send heartbeats from a background thread	Committed
KIP-65	Expose timestamps to Connect	Committed
KIP-67	Queryable state for Kafka Streams	Committed
KIP-70	Revise consumer partition assignment semantics	Committed
KIP-71	Enable log compaction and deletion to co-exist	Committed
KIP-75	Add per-connector Converters	Committed
KIP-58	Make log compaction point configurable	Committed
KIP-63	Unify store and downstream caching in streams	Committed
KIP-73	Replication quotas	Committed
KIP-78	Add clusterId	Committed
KIP-55	Secure quotas for authenticated users	Committed
KIP-74	Add fetch response size limit in bytes	Committed
KIP-79	Add methods to new consumer to search offsets by timestamp	Committed