Hmm, I think we could have been dropping each other but I also have triggered 4.4 RC1 couple of times so it could be the re-triggering path caused issue to 4.4 RC. I will trigger new RC today and hopefully this will fix it for 4.4.0 Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Sep 2026, at 22:21, Jakub Scholz <jakub@scholz.cz> wrote: > > Hi Omnia, > > Thanks for the RC. > > There seems to be the same problems as with the 4.2.2 RC and the staged > Maven artifacts seem to be missing in the staging repo. (I wonder if for > some reason both RCs were dropped by the Maven repo or if there is some > issue with doing two releases in parallel and you are overwriting each > other 🤔) > > Thanks > Jakub > >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM Omnia Ibrahim <o.g.h.ibrahim@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, >> >> This is the 2nd candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.4.0. >> >> Apache Kafka 4.4.0 is a minor release that includes 26 KIPs spanning >> improvements to all components. >> >> Release notes for the 4.4.0 release: >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.4.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html >> >> Please download, test and vote by Friday, September 25, 2026, 12:30pm BST >> (4:30am PT) >> >> Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: >> https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/KEYS >> >> * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.4.0-rc1/ >> >> * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: >> apache/kafka:4.4.0-rc1 >> apache/kafka-native:4.4.0-rc1 >> >> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ >> >> * Javadoc: >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.4.0-rc1/javadoc/index.html >> >> * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.4 branch) is the 4.4.0 tag: >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/4.4.0-rc1 >> >> * Documentation: >> https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905 >> * Protocol: >> https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905 >> >> * Successful CI builds for the 4.4 branch: >> Unit/integration tests: >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/35717651111 >> >> System tests: [will provide it soon] >> * Documentation: >> PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905 >> >> * Protocol: >> PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/905 >> >> * Successful Docker Image Github Actions Pipeline for 4.4 branch: >> Docker Build Test Pipeline (JVM): >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/35720261595 >> Docker Build Test Pipeline (Native): >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/actions/runs/35720261595 >> >> Thanks, >> Omnia
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