Yay! I'm happy to see this release. Thanks David for your hard work as well as everyone else in the community who rallied to get this over the line!
Justine On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM Apoorv Mittal <apoorvmitta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > > > >
