Congratulations! A new milestone for Apache Kafka, thanks David for running the release.
Regards, Apoorv Mittal On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations! > > This release is a major milestone for Apache Kafka. > Thanks David for running the release, and to all the contributors and > users. > > Thanks, > Mickael > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM 黃竣陽 <s7133...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for running the release and hard work > > > > Jiunn-Yang > > > > > Lucas Brutschy <lbruts...@confluent.io.INVALID> 於 2025年3月19日 凌晨12:00 > 寫道： > > > > > > Thanks for the well done release, David! > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM TengYao Chi <kiting...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Thanks for runing this EPIC release and all hard work!!! > > >> > > >> Best, > > >> TengYao > > >> > > >> Jeff Kim <jeffkb...@apache.org> 於 2025年3月18日 週二 下午11:54寫道： > > >> > > >>> Awesome, thanks for all the hard work David! > > >>> > > >>> On 2025/03/18 15:43:17 David Jacot wrote: > > >>>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > > >>>> Apache Kafka 4.0.0 > > >>>> > > >>>> - This is the first release without Apache Zookeeper > > >>>> - The Next Generation of the Consumer Rebalance Protocol is > Generally > > >>> Available > > >>>> - The Transactions Server-Side Defense (Phase 2) is Generally > Available > > >>>> - Kafka Clients and Kafka Streams require Java 11, while Kafka > > >>>> Brokers, Connect, and Tools, now require Java 17 > > >>>> - Old client protocol API versions have been removed > > >>>> - Queues for Kafka is in Early Access > > >>>> - Kafka uses log4j2 > > >>>> > > >>>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release > notes: > > >>>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.0.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > >>>> > > >>>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog > post: > > >>>> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_400_release_announcement > > >>>> > > >>>> You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13) from: > > >>>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.0.0 > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>>> > > >>>> Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core > APIs: > > >>>> > > >>>> ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream of > 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 175 contributors to this release! > > >>>> (Please report an unintended omission) > > >>>> > > >>>> A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, abhi-ksolves, Abhijeet Kumar, Abhinav Dixit, > > >>>> Abhishek Giri, Alieh Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew > > >>>> Schofield, Anshul Goyal, Ao Li, Apoorv Mittal, Arnav Dadarya, Arpit > > >>>> Goyal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, bachmanity1, bboyleonp666, Bill > > >>>> Bejeck, brenden20, Bruno Cadonna, Caio Guedes, Calvin Liu, Chengyan, > > >>>> Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Chuan Yu, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris > > >>>> Egerton, Christo Lolov, Christopher L. Shannon, ClarkChen, Clay > > >>>> Johnson, Colin P. McCabe, Colt McNealy, Danica Fine, Dániel Urbán, > > >>>> David Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao, David Schlosnagle, Dejan > > >>>> Stojadinović, devanshikhatsuriya, Dimitar Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, > > >>>> DL1231, Dmitry Werner, donaldzhu-cc, Dongnuo Lyu, dujian0068, > Edoardo > > >>>> Comar, Eric Chang, Federico Valeri, Frederik Rouleau, GangHuo, > > >>>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Hailey > > >>>> Ni, Hongten, Hyunsang Han, Ian McDonald, Igor Soarez, Ismael Juma, > > >>>> Ivan Yurchenko, Jakub Scholz, Jason Gustafson, Jason Taylor, Jeff > Kim, > > >>>> Jhen-Yung Hsu, Jim Galasyn, João Pedro Fonseca Dantas, John Huang, > > >>>> JohnHuang, Jonah Hooper, José Armando García Sancio, Josep Prat, Jun > > >>>> Rao, Justin Lee, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, > > >>>> KApolinario1120, kartik-3513, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang, kevin-wu24, > > >>>> Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Krishna Agarwal, Kuan-Po Tseng, > > >>>> kwonyonghyun, Laxman Ch, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, > > >>>> Linsiyuan9, Linu Shibu, Liu Zeyu, Logan Zhu, Loïc Greffier, Lucas > > >>>> Brutschy, Luke Chen, lushilin, Mahsa Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, > > >>>> mannoopj, Martin Sillence, Mason Chen, Matthias J. Sax, Mehari > Beyene, > > >>>> Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, msureshpro, Murali Basani, > > >>>> Nancy, Nick Guo, Nick Telford, Oleg Bonar, Oleksandr K., Omnia > > >>>> Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Patrik Marton, Paul R. Mellor, Peter Lee, > > >>>> Philip Nee, PoAn Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Ramin Gharib, Ritika Reddy, > > >>>> Robert Young, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Said Boudjelda, Sanskar Jhajharia, > > >>>> santhoshct, Sasaki Toru, Satish Duggana, Saxon Chen, Scott > Hendricks, > > >>>> Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav > Knot, > > >>>> Steven Xu, stevenbooke, Stig Døssing, Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, > > >>>> TaiJuWu, tall15421542-lab, TapDang, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas > > >>>> Thornton, Tim Fox, tkuramoto33, Tom Duckering, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas > > >>>> Singh, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Vincent Jiang, wperlichek, xijiu, > > >>>> Xuan-Zhang Gong, yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yash Mayya, Yung, > > >>>> yungh, yx9o, Zhengke Zhou, Ziming Deng, 陳昱霖 (Yu-Lin Chen) > > >>>> > > >>>> 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, > > >>>> > > >>>> David Jacot > > >>>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 > > >>>> > > >>> > > >
