On 2024/04/05 06:06:29 Manikumar wrote:
> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> Apache Kafka 3.6.2
>
> This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from 28
JIRAs.
>
> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.6.2/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>
>
> You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and Scala
2.13) from:
> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.6.2
>
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> 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 40 contributors to this release!
> (Please report an unintended omission)
>
> Akhilesh Chaganti, Andrew Schofield, Anton Liauchuk, Bob Barrett,
> Bruno Cadonna, Cheng-Kai, Zhang, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Colin
> P. McCabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, David Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao,
> Divij Vaidya, Edoardo Comar, Emma Humber, Gaurav Narula, Greg Harris,
> hudeqi, Ismael Juma, Jason Gustafson, Jim Galasyn, Joel Hamill, Johnny
> Hsu, José Armando García Sancio, Justine Olshan, Luke Chen, Manikumar
> Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mayank Shekhar Narula, Mickael Maison, Mike
> Lloyd, Paolo Patierno, PoAn Yang, Ron Dagostino, Sagar Rao, Stanislav
> Kozlovski, Walker Carlson, Yash Mayya
>
> 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,
>
> Manikumar
> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 3.6.2
>
