Hi Kafka,

Just a note that your download page has a link to the KEYS file at 
https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS

The KEYS link should be https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/KEYS for future 
announcements.

Regards,

Craig

> 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 
> <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 
> <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/ <https://kafka.apache.org/>
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Regards,
> Dong

Craig L Russell
Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
c...@apache.org <mailto:c...@apache.org> http://db.apache.org/jdo 
<http://db.apache.org/jdo>

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