Thanks to all contributors, and big thanks to Omnia for driving the release!
On 2026-10-26 19:52 UTC Omnia Ibrahim wrote: > 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
