The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 4.4.0
All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.4.0/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#4.4.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 151 contributors (and 8 AIs) to this release! (Please report an unintended omission) Matthias J. Sax, Ken Huang, Mickael Maison, Nick Telford, Sushant Mahajan, majialong, PoAn Yang, David Jacot, Murali Basani, Alieh Saeedi, Lianet Magrans, Bill Bejeck, Ming-Yen Chung, Sean Quah, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, TengYao Chi, ChickenchickenLove, Sanskar Jhajharia, Gabriella Fu, Lucy Liu, Maros Orsak, nileshkumar3, Evan Zhou, YANG-SYUAN CHOU, Alan Lau, Jess668, Lucas Brutschy, Uladzislau Blok, Chia-Yi Chiu, Eric Chang, Federico Valeri, Kuan-Po Tseng, Aditya Kousik, Gaurav Narula, Nikita Shupletsov, TaiJuWu, Gavin Wang, Jiayao Sun, Shekhar Prasad Rajak, Chih-Yuan Chien, Eduwer Camacaro, Gergely Harmadas, Manikumar Reddy, Mingi Cho, Paolo Patierno, Ivan Yurchenko, Nick Guo, Omnia Ibrahim, gomudayya, sstremler, Bolin Lin, Christo Lolov, CoderBruis, Dejan Stojadinović, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo Comar, Igor Soarez, Jian, KC.H, Kevin Wu, Lan Ding, LeiXiaoGao, Parker Chang, Russole Chen, Sebastien Viale, yangxuze, Adam Souquières, Arpit Goyal, Avishek Das, Gabriel Dutra, Hector Geraldino, Jakub Scholz, Kai Jay Tu, Kartikay Dubey, Kirk True, Luke Chen, Park Jiwon, RonGamzu, Sahil Devgon, Yunchi Pang, Zheguang Zhao, Zhiyan Tang, ashwinpankaj, dependabot[bot], gabriellefu, mannoopj, red-flames, zoo-code, 조형준, Abhijeet Kumar, Adam Horky, Alyssa Huang, Amir Sarabadani, Andy Huang, Angelo R., Anton Liauchuk, Aravind Reveendran, Arnab Nandy, Arpit Jain, Atharv Chavan, Brian Sang, Chang-Chi Hsu, Charlie Zhang, Daeho Kwon, Daniel Tschinder, David Simon, Davide Armand, Derek Ko, Diya Hussein, Dmitry Werner, Fatorin, Ganesh Manchi, Gimin Kim, Gyeongwon Do, Hana, Ivan Malutin, Joanna-D, Jonah Hooper, José Armando García Sancio, Kamal Chandraprakash, Kenan Adel, Kondrat Bertalan, Lucas Ma, Mirko Alicastro, Nandini Singhal, Nikolaus Schuetz, Nishant Kumar, Prabhash Kumar, Rajarshi Misra, Rion Williams, Ritika Reddy, Ritikj55, S.Y. Wang, Sepuri Sai Krishna, Shivsundar R, Siddhartha Devineni, Taeik Lim, Tamas Kornai, Tommi Vainikainen, Truc Nguyen, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Xi, Yu-Chia Ma, akhil-sabu-ibm, amandayclee, averemee-si, minjcho, subbudvk, winfriedgerlach 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, Omnia Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.4.0
