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- KIP Freeze: Sep 30, 2020 (a KIP must be accepted by this date in order to be considered for this release)
- Feature Freeze: Oct 7, 2020 (major features merged & working on stabilization, minor features have PR, release branch cut; anything not in this state will be automatically moved to the next release in JIRA)
- Code Freeze: Oct 21, 2020Release: estimated
- Nov 6Released Dec 21, 2020
These dates are goals and subject to change, but we expect to stay on the Time Based Release Plan unless unexpected critical issues come up. While the target release date is fixed at ~2w after code freeze, RCs will roll out as needed until the release vote passes.
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Note: The planned content is not binding - final content will be based the features committed by branch-cutting date. See Kafka Improvement Proposals for the full list of KIPs.
Postponed to subsequent release
431: Support of printing additional ConsumerRecord fields in DefaultMessageFormatter6733Kafka Tools418: A method-chaining way to branch KStream5488373: Allow users to create delegation tokens for other users6945359: Verify leader epoch in produce requests7383280: Enhanced log compaction7061216: IQ should throw different exceptions for different errors5876 Streams81: Bound Fetch memory usage in the consumer4133 Postponed to subsequent release