Congratulations and thanks to all the contributors Mickael
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM Andrew Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 4.1.2. > > This bug-fix release includes several critical fixes as documented in > the release notes. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.2/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 from: > https://kafka.apache.org/community/downloads/#412 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 39 contributors to this release! > (Please report an unintended omission) > > Alex, Andrew Schofield, Anton Vasanth, Arpit Goyal, Bill Bejeck, > Chia-Ping Tsai, Copilot, David Arthur, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Donny > Nadolny, Eric Chang, Erik Anderson, Federico Valeri, Gaurav Narula, > Genseric Ghiro, Harish Vishwanath, Hong-Yi Chen, Ilyas Toumlilt, Izzy > Harker, Jian, jimmy, Jun Rao, Ken Huang, Kirk True, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan > Ding, Lianet Magrans, Lucas Brutschy, majialong, Manikumar Reddy, > Matthias J. Sax, Matthias Sax, Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Nikita > Shupletsov, PoAn Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Sean Quah > > 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, > > Andrew Schofield > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.2
