Bravo Dong! Thanks for managing the 2.1.0 release. Edo ____________________ sent from my phone
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, 20:41 James Cheng <wushuja...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks Dong for running the release, and congrats to everyone in the > community! > > -James > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 21, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Dong Lin <lind...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > > Kafka 2.1.0 > > > > > > This is a major release and includes significant features from 28 KIPs. > It > > contains fixes and improvements from 179 JIRSs, including a few critical > > bug fixes. Here is a summary of some notable changes > > > > ** Java 11 support > > ** Support for Zstandard, which achieves compression comparable to gzip > > with higher compression and especially decompression speeds(KIP-110) > > ** Avoid expiring committed offsets for active consumer group (KIP-211) > > ** Provide Intuitive User Timeouts in The Producer (KIP-91) > > ** Kafka's replication protocol now supports improved fencing of zombies. > > Previously, under certain rare conditions, if a broker became partitioned > > from Zookeeper but not the rest of the cluster, then the logs of > replicated > > partitions could diverge and cause data loss in the worst case (KIP-320) > > ** Streams API improvements (KIP-319, KIP-321, KIP-330, KIP-353, KIP-356) > > ** Admin script and admin client API improvements to simplify admin > > operation (KIP-231, KIP-308, KIP-322, KIP-324, KIP-338, KIP-340) > > ** DNS handling improvements (KIP-235, KIP-302) > > > > > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala <VERSIONS>) from: > > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.1.0 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: > > > > > > ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream 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 100 contributors to this release! > > > > Ahmed Al Mehdi, Aleksei Izmalkin, Alex Dunayevsky, Amit Sela, Andras > > Katona, Andy Coates, Anna Povzner, Arjun Satish, Attila Sasvari, Aviem > Zur, > > Bibin Sebastian, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, Brandon Kirchner, Bridger > > Howell, Chia-Ping Tsai, Colin Hicks, Colin Patrick McCabe, Dhruvil Shah, > > Dong Lin, Edoardo Comar, Eugen Feller, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Filipe > > Agapito, Flavien Raynaud, Gantigmaa Selenge, Gardner Vickers, Gitomain, > > Gunnar Morling, Guozhang Wang, hashangayasri, huxi, huxihx, Ismael Juma, > > Jagadesh Adireddi, Jason Gustafson, Jim Galasyn, Jimin Hsieh, Jimmy > Casey, > > Joan Goyeau, John Roesler, Jon Lee, jonathanskrzypek, Jun Rao, Kamal > > Chandraprakash, Kevin Lafferty, Kevin Lu, Koen De Groote, Konstantine > > Karantasis, lambdaliu, Lee Dongjin, Lincong Li, Liquan Pei, lucapette, > > Lucas Wang, Maciej Bryński, Magesh Nandakumar, Manikumar Reddy, Manikumar > > Reddy O, Mario Molina, Marko Stanković, Matthias J. Sax, Matthias > > Wessendorf, Max Zheng, Mayank Tankhiwale, mgharat, Michal Dziemianko, > > Michał Borowiecki, Mickael Maison, Mutasem Aldmour, Nikolay, nixsticks, > > nprad, okumin, Radai Rosenblatt, radai-rosenblatt, Rajini Sivaram, > Randall > > Hauch, Robert Yokota, Rohan, Ron Dagostino, Sam Lendle, Sandor Murakozi, > > Simon Clark, Stanislav Kozlovski, Stephane Maarek, Sébastien Launay, > Sönke > > Liebau, Ted Yu, uncleGen, Vahid Hashemian, Viktor Somogyi, wangshao, > > xinzhg, Xiongqi Wesley Wu, Xiongqi Wu, ying-zheng, Yishun Guan, Yu Yang, > > Zhanxiang (Patrick) Huang > > > > 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, > > Dong >
