Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers,
This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.3.1.
This is a bugfix release for the 4.3 line. The most significant fix is
KAFKA-20616, a critical native memory leak in Kafka Streams caused by
RocksDB
ColumnFamily handles and ColumnFamilyOptions not being released (notably the
offsets column family added for KIP-1035). The release also includes:
- KAFKA-20663: Kafka Streams stale-offset / OffsetOutOfRangeException on
restart (StateDirectory task-lock release on startup-manager close, and
returning the committed offset from the newest segment first)
- KAFKA-20673: AdminClient partition-leader APIs hang when a cached leader
has left the cluster
- KAFKA-20634 / KAFKA-20635: spurious group-coordinator errors after a
partition leadership change
- KAFKA-20535: improved async consumer CPU usage under low max.poll.records
- Additional documentation updates (KIP-1035, KIP-1271 headers-aware sta...