Release Dates
Branch cutting planned for March 21, 2016. First RC is planned for March 22, 2016. RCs will roll out as needed until the release vote passes.
Release Manager
The release manage is Gwen Shapira
How to Contribute
Before March 21:
- 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.
After March 21:
- Test the release candidates
- Open bugs on important issues found
- Fix bugs
- Review bug fixes
- Vote on RCs. Even though only PMC votes are binding, community votes are super important as we evaluate the readiness of the release
Planned Content
Note: The planned content is not binding - final content will be based the features committed by branch-cutting date.
KIP | Content | JIRA | Status |
---|---|---|---|
KIP-28 | Kafka Streams | In progress, most of the functionality is committed | |
KIP-31 | Relative offsets in compressed messages | KAFKA-2511 | Committed |
KIP-32 | Add timestamps to messages | KAFKA-2511 | Committed |
KIP-36 | Rack awareness | KAFKA-1215 | In review |
KIP-41 | KafkaConsumer max records | KAFKA-3007 | Committed |
KIP-42 | Client interceptors | KAFKA-3162 | In progress, most of the functionality is committed |
KIP-4 | Admin API | KAFKA-1694 | In review |
KIP-33 | Time-based index | KAFKA-3163 | In discussion |
KIP-35 | Protocol version improvements | KAFKA-3304 | In discussion |
KIP-43 | SASL improvements | KAFKA-3149 | In vote |
KIP-45 | Standardize client sequences | KAFKA-3006 | In discussion |
KIP-47 | Timestamp-based deletion policy | KAFKA-3224 | In discussion |
KIP-48 | Delegation tokens! | KAFKA-1696 | In discussion |
KIP-49 | Fair Partition Assignment policy | In discussion | |
KIP-50 | Improve Authz interface | KAFKA-3186 | In discussion |