Appreciate for the essential patch release!
> Viktor Somogyi-Vass <[email protected]> 於 2026年3月20日 下午6:35 寫道： > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 4.0.2 > > 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/4.0.2/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/downloads#4.0.2 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 44 contributors to this release! (Please > report an unintended omission) > > Alieh Saeedi, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Arpit Goyal, Bill Bejeck, > Chia-Ping Tsai, Christo, David Arthur, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Donny > Nadolny, Eric Chang, Erik Anderson, Fatih, Gaurav Narula, Genseric Ghiro, > Harish Vishwanath, Ilyas Toumlilt, Izzy Harker, Janindu Pathirana, Jian, > jimmy, Jun Rao, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, Lucas > Brutschy, Luke Chen, majialong, Manikumar Reddy, Masahiro Mori, Matthias J. > Sax, Matthias Sax, Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Nikita Shupletsov, PoAn > Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Ritika Reddy, Sean Quah, Shashank, Sushant Mahajan, > Viktor Somogyi-Vass > > 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, > > Viktor Somogyi-Vass > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.0.2
