[DPE-5565] Release notes for 195/149 release

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+# Revision 188/149
+<sub>???, Nov ??, 2024</sub>
+
+Dear community,
+
+We are pleased to report that we have just released a new updated version for the Charmed Apache Kafka bundles on the `3/stable` channel, 
+upgrading Charmed Apache ZooKeeper revision from 136 to 149, and Charmed Apache Kafka from xxx to 188.  
+
+The new release comes with a number of new features from the charms, from Juju secrets support, OAuth/OIDC authentication support, various improvements in the UI/UX and dependencies upgrades.  
+
+Please reach out should you have any question, comment, feedback or information. You can find us here in [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#charmhub-data-platform:ubuntu.com) or also on [Discourse](https://discourse.charmhub.io/).
+
+## Kafka
+
+Here below we provide a summary of the main features and bug fixes related to the Apache Kafka operator.
+
+### Features
+
+* [DPE-2285] Refer to Charmhub space from GitHub (#200)
+* [DPE-3333] Add integration test for broken tls (#188)
+* [DPE-3721] chore: use tools-log4j.properties for run_bin_command (#201)
+* [DPE-3735] Integration of custom alerting rules and dashboards (#180)
+* [DPE-3780] Set workload version in install hook (#182)
+* [DPE-3857] Test consistency between workload and metadata versions (#186)
+* [DPE-3926] Enforce zookeeper client interface (#196)
+* [DPE-3928] feat: secrets integration (#189)
+* [DPE-5702] chore: Active Controllers alert set to == 0 (#252)
+* [CSS-6503] Add OAuth support for non-charmed external clients (#168)
+
+### Bugs
+
+* [DPE-3880] Remove instance field from grafana dashboard (#191) 
+* [DPE-3880] Remove all instances of $job variable in dashboard (#181)
+* [DPE-3900] Remove APT references (#183)
+* [DPE-3932] Fix illegal character on matrix channel (#187)
+* [DPE-4133] Do not change permissions on existing folders when reusing storage (#195)
+* [DPE-4362] fix: alive, restart and alive handling (#202)
+
+### Other changes
+
+* [MISC] Test on juju 3.4 (#190)
+* [MISC] Update package dependencies
+* [DPE-3588] Release documentation update  (#175)
+* [MISC] CI improvements (#209)
+* [DPE-3214] Release 3.6.1 (#179)
+* [DPE-5565] Upgrade dataplatform libs to v38
+* [discourse-gatekeeper] Migrate charm docs (#210, #203, #198, #194, #192)
+* [DPE-3932] Update information in metadata.yaml
+
+## ZooKeeper
+
+Here below we provide a summary of the main features and bug fixes related to the ZooKeeper operator.
+
+### Features
+
+* [DPE-2285] Refer to Charmhub space from GitHub (#143)
+* [DPE-2597] Re use existing storage (#138)
+* [DPE-3737] Implement ZK client interface (#142)
+* [DPE-3782] Set workload version in install and config hooks (#130)
+* [DPE-3857] Test consistency between workload and metadata versions (#136)
+* [DPE-3869] Secrets in ZK (#129)
+* [DPE-5626] chore: update ZooKeeper up alerting (#166)
+
+### Bugs
+
+* [DPE-3880] Remove job variable from dashboard (#134)
+* [DPE-3900] Remove APT references (#131)
+* [DPE-3932] Fix illegal character on matrix channel (#133, #135)
+* [DPE-4183] fix: only handle quorum removal on relation-departed (#146)
+* [DPE-4362] fix: alive, restart and alive handling (#145)
+
+### Other changes
+
+* [DPE-5565] Stable release upgrade
+* chore: bump dp_libs ver (#147)
+* [MISC] General update dependencies (#144)
+* [MISC] Update CI to Juju 3.4 (#137)
+* [DPE-3932] Update information in metadata.yaml
+* [MISC] Update cryptography to 42.0.5
+
+Canonical Data issues are now public on both [Jira](https://warthogs.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/DPE/issues/) 
+and [GitHub](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-operator/issues) platforms.
+
+## Inside the charms
+
+Contents of the Kafka and ZooKeeper charms include:
+
+* Charmed ZooKeeper charm is based on the [charmed-zookeeper snap](https://snapcraft.io/charmed-zookeeper) of the `3/stable` channel (Ubuntu LTS “22.04” - core22-based) that ships the ZooKeeper [3.8.4-ubuntu0](https://launchpad.net/zookeeper-releases/3.x/3.8.4-ubuntu0), built and supported by Canonical
+* Charmed Kafka charm is based on the [charmed-kafka snap](https://snapcraft.io/charmed-kafka) of the `3/stable` channel (Ubuntu LTS “22.04” - core22-based) that ships the Kafka [3.6.1-ubuntu0](https://launchpad.net/kafka-releases/3.x/3.6.1-ubuntu0), built and supported by Canonical
+* Principal charms support the latest LTS series “22.04” only.
+
+More information about the artifacts are provided by the following table:
+
+| Artifact               | Track/Series | Version/Revision | Code                                                                                                                |
+|------------------------|--------------|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| ZooKeeper distribution | 3.x          | 3.8.4-ubuntu0    | [78499c](https://git.launchpad.net/zookeeper-releases/tree/?h=lp-3.8.4&id=78499c9f4d4610f9fb963afdad1ffd1aab2a96b8) |
+| Kafka distribution     | 3.x          | 3.6.1-ubuntu0    | [db44db](https://git.launchpad.net/kafka-releases/tree/?h=lp-3.6.1&id=db44db1ebf870854dddfc3be0187a976b997d4dc)     |
+| Charmed ZooKeeper snap | 3/stable     | 34               | [13f3c6](https://github.com/canonical/charmed-zookeeper-snap/tree/13f3c620658fdc55b7d6745b81c7b5a00e042e10)         |        
+| ZooKeeper operator     | 3/stable     | 149              | [40576c](https://github.com/canonical/zookeeper-operator/commit/40576c1c87badd1e2352afc013ed0754808ef44c)           | 
+| Charmed Kafka snap     | 3/stable     | 37               | [c266f9](https://github.com/canonical/charmed-kafka-snap/tree/c266f9cd283408d2106d4682b67661205a12ea7f)             |  
+| Kafka operator         | 3/stable     | 185              | [db870b](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-operator/tree/db870b20815dada9722fe5432fd00d780c7a7206)                 |   
+
+
+## Technical notes
+
+* [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-operator/releases) provide a detailed list of bugfixes, PRs, and commits for each revision.
+* Upgrades from previous stable versions can be done with the standard upgrading process, as outlined in the [documentation](/t/charmed-kafka-documentation-how-to-upgrade/11814)