Congratulations and thanks to all the contributors! Mickael
On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM Andrew Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Omnia for driving the release. > > On 2026/10/26 20:03:12 Chia-Ping Tsai wrote: > > 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 > >
