Thank you Mickael for running the release. Good job everyone! -James
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2021, at 2:17 PM, Mickael Maison <mimai...@apache.org> wrote: > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 2.6.1. > > This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from > 41 JIRAs, including a few critical bugs. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.6.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and Scala 2.13) > from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.6.1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 36 contributors to this release! > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, John Roesler, Bruno Cadonna, Rajini Sivaram, > Guozhang Wang, Matthias J. Sax, Chris Egerton, Mickael Maison, Randall > Hauch, leah, Luke Chen, Jason Gustafson, Konstantine Karantasis, > Michael Bingham, Lucas Bradstreet, Andrew Egelhofer, Micah Paul Ramos, > Nikolay, Nitesh Mor, Alex Diachenko, xakassi, Shaik Zakir Hussain, > Stanislav Kozlovski, Stanislav Vodetskyi, Thorsten Hake, Tom Bentley, > Vikas Singh, feyman2016, high.lee, Dima Reznik, Colin Patrick McCabe, > Edoardo Comar, Jim Galasyn, Chia-Ping Tsai, Justine Olshan, Levani > Kokhreidze > > > 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, > Mickael
