Release Notes - Kafka - Version 2.8.2

Below is a summary of the JIRA issues addressed in the 2.8.2 release of Kafka. For full documentation of the release, a guide to get started, and information about the project, see the Kafka project site.

Note about upgrades: Please carefully review the upgrade documentation for this release thoroughly before upgrading your cluster. The upgrade notes discuss any critical information about incompatibilities and breaking changes, performance changes, and any other changes that might impact your production deployment of Kafka.

The documentation for the most recent release can be found at https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html.

Bug

• [KAFKA-12257] - Consumer mishandles topics deleted and recreated with the same name
• [KAFKA-12879] - Compatibility break in Admin.listOffsets()
• [KAFKA-13249] - Checkpoints do not contain latest offsets on shutdown when using EOS
• [KAFKA-13370] - Offset commit failure percentage metric is not computed correctly (regression)
• [KAFKA-13406] - Cooperative sticky assignor got stuck due to assignment validation failed
• [KAFKA-13488] - Producer fails to recover if topic gets deleted (and gets auto-created)
• [KAFKA-13544] - Deadlock during shutting down kafka broker because of connectivity problem with zookeeper
• [KAFKA-13636] - Committed offsets could be deleted during a rebalance if a group did not commit for a while
• [KAFKA-13727] - Edge case in cleaner can result in premature removal of ABORT marker
• [KAFKA-13770] - Regression when Connect uses 0.10.x brokers due to recently added retry logic in KafkaBasedLog
• [KAFKA-14107] - Upgrade Jetty for CVE fixes