The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 3.9.1
This bug-fix release has several fixes, and most importantly, it adds Java 23 support. All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.9.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_391_release_announcement You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 / 2.13) from: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.9.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 applications: ** 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 57 contributors to this release! (Please report an unintended omission) Alieh Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Anna Sophie Blee-Goldman, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck, Bruno Cadonna, Chia-Ping Tsai, Colin Patrick McCabe, Colt McNealy, David Arthur, David Jacot, Dimitar Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, Edoardo Comar, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Hailey Ni, Ismael Juma, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justin Lee, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Ken Huang, Kirk True, Kuan-Po Tseng, Laxman Ch, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Nick Telford, nilmadhab mondal, Parker Chang, PoAn Yang, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, ShivsundarR, Stig Døssing, TaiJuWu, TengYao Chi, Vedarth Sharma, Ziming Deng 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, Luke Chen, TengYao Chi Release Managers for Apache Kafka 3.9.1
