thanks to PoAn for handling this release!
On 2026/02/22 12:28:29 PoAn Yang wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 3.9.2 > > This bug-fix release contains several critical fixes and security updates. > Notably, this release includes KIP-1252, which addresses inconsistent > AlterConfigPolicy behavior between ZooKeeper and KRaft modes. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.9.2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/community/downloads/#392 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 57 contributors to this release! (Please > report an unintended omission) > > Alieh Saeedi, Alyssa Huang, Arpit Goyal, Bill Bejeck, Calvin Liu, Chang-Chi > Hsu, Chia-Ping Tsai, ChickenchickenLove, Clemens Hutter, Colin Patrick > McCabe, Dániel Urbán, David Arthur, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Donny > Nadolny, Edoardo Comar, Erik Anderson, Fatih, Federico Valeri, Gaurav > Narula, Genseric Ghiro, Gergely Harmadas, Harish Vishwanath, Ismael Juma, > Janindu Pathirana, Jian, jimmy, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, > Justine Olshan, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan > Ding, Lianet Magrans, Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, majialong, Manikumar > Reddy, Masahiro Mori, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, > Nikita Shupletsov, Okada Haruki, Oleksandr Luzhniy, Paolo Patierno, PoAn > Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Ritika Reddy, Shashank, Shicheng Rao, shub-est, > TengYao Chi, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Vincent Jiang > > 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, > > PoAn > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 3.9.2 >
