This is great! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the release. On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:36 AM John Roesler <vvcep...@apache.org> wrote:
> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the > release for Apache Kafka 2.8.0 > > Kafka 2.8.0 includes a number of significant new features. > Here is a summary of some notable changes: > > * Early access of replace ZooKeeper with a self-managed > quorum > * Add Describe Cluster API > * Support mutual TLS authentication on SASL_SSL listeners > * JSON request/response debug logs > * Limit broker connection creation rate > * Topic identifiers > * Expose task configurations in Connect REST API > * Update Streams FSM to clarify ERROR state meaning > * Extend StreamJoined to allow more store configs > * More convenient TopologyTestDriver construtors > * Introduce Kafka-Streams-specific uncaught exception > handler > * API to start and shut down Streams threads > * Improve TimeWindowedDeserializer and TimeWindowedSerde to > handle window size > * Improve timeouts and retries in Kafka Streams > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the > release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.8.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 > and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.8.0 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------- > > > 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 128 contributors to this > release! > > 17hao, abc863377, Adem Efe Gencer, Alexander Iskuskov, Alok > Nikhil, Anastasia Vela, Andrew Lee, Andrey Bozhko, Andrey > Falko, Andy Coates, Andy Wilkinson, Ankit Kumar, APaMio, > Arjun Satish, ArunParthiban-ST, A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, > Attila Sasvari, Benoit Maggi, bertber, bill, Bill Bejeck, > Bob Barrett, Boyang Chen, Brajesh Kumar, Bruno Cadonna, > Cheng Tan, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, CHUN-HAO TANG, > Colin Patrick McCabe, Colin P. Mccabe, Cyrus Vafadari, David > Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao, dengziming, Dhruvil Shah, > Dima Reznik, Dongjoon Hyun, Dongxu Wang, Emre Hasegeli, > feyman2016, fml2, Gardner Vickers, Geordie, Govinda Sakhare, > Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Gwen Shapira, Hamza Slama, > high.lee, huxi, Igor Soarez, Ilya Ganelin, Ismael Juma, Ivan > Ponomarev, Ivan Yurchenko, jackyoh, James Cheng, James > Yuzawa, Jason Gustafson, Jesse Gorzinski, Jim Galasyn, John > Roesler, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, José Armando García > Sancio, Julien Chanaud, Julien Jean Paul Sirocchi, Justine > Olshan, Kengo Seki, Kowshik Prakasam, leah, Lee Dongjin, > Levani Kokhreidze, Lev Zemlyanov, Liju John, Lincong Li, > Lucas Bradstreet, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Marco Aurelio > Lotz, mathieu, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. Sax, Matthias > Merdes, Michael Bingham, Michael G. Noll, Mickael Maison, > Montyleo, mowczare, Nikolay, Nikolay Izhikov, Ning Zhang, > Nitesh Mor, Okada Haruki, panguncle, parafiend, Patrick > Dignan, Prateek Agarwal, Prithvi, Rajini Sivaram, Raman > Verma, Ramesh Krishnan M, Randall Hauch, Richard > Fussenegger, Rohan, Rohit Deshpande, Ron Dagostino, Samuel > Cantero, Sanket Fajage, Scott Hendricks, Shao Yang Hong, > ssugar, Stanislav Kozlovski, Stanislav Vodetskyi, tang7526, > Thorsten Hake, Tom Bentley, vamossagar12, Viktor Somogyi- > Vass, voffcheg109, Walker Carlson, wenbingshen, wycccccc, > xakassi, Xavier Léauté, Yilong Chang, zhangyue19921010 > > 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, > > John Roesler > > -- -- Guozhang
