Thanks for running the release and to all contributors. Fede
On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 9:47 AM Christo Lolov <[email protected]> wrote: > Big thank you to all the contributors and to Omnia for managing the > release! > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 08:37, Mickael Maison <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > >
