The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 2.4.1
This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from 39 JIRAs, including a few critical bugs. All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.4.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.11, 2.12, and 2.13) from: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.4.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream records to one or more Kafka topics. ** The Consumer API allows an application to subscribe to one or more topics and process the stream of records produced to them. ** The Streams API allows an application to act as a stream processor, consuming an input stream from one or more topics and producing an output stream to one or more output topics, effectively transforming the input streams to output streams. ** The Connector API allows building and running reusable producers or consumers that connect Kafka topics to existing applications or data systems. For example, a connector to a relational database might capture every change to a table. With these APIs, Kafka can be used for two broad classes of application: ** Building real-time streaming data pipelines that reliably get data between systems or applications. ** Building real-time streaming applications that transform or react to the streams of data. Apache Kafka is in use at large and small companies worldwide, including Capital One, Goldman Sachs, ING, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pinterest, Rabobank, Target, The New York Times, Uber, Yelp, and Zalando, among others. A big thank you for the following 35 contributors to this release! A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Alex Kokachev, bill, Bill Bejeck, Boyang Chen, Brian Bushree, Brian Byrne, Bruno Cadonna, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Colin Patrick McCabe, David Jacot, David Kim, David Mao, Dhruvil Shah, Gunnar Morling, Guozhang Wang, huxi, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, Jason Gustafson, John Roesler, Konstantine Karantasis, Lev Zemlyanov, Manikumar Reddy, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. Sax, Michael Gyarmathy, Michael Viamari, Nigel Liang, Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Tomislav, Vikas Singh, Xin Wang We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at https://kafka.apache.org/ Thank you! Regards, Bill Bejeck
