Thanks for managing the release PoAn!
On 2026/06/02 14:11:05 PoAn Yang wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 4.2.1 > > This bug-fix release includes several critical fixes as documented in the > release notes. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.2.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog > > You can download the source and binary release from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.2.1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 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 45 contributors to this release! (Please > report an unintended omission) > > Abhinav Dixit, Alieh Saeedi, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Artem > Livshits, averemee-si, Bolin Lin, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chia-Yi Chiu, Chirag > Wadhwa, Christo, Christo Lolov, Daeho Kwon, David Jacot, Ding, Edoardo > Comar, Federico Valeri, Giuseppe Lillo, Hector Geraldino, José Armando > García Sancio, Josep Prat, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Lianet Magrans, > Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, majialong, Maros Orsak, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael > Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Murali Basani, Nikita Shupletsov, Nilesh Kumar, > Parker Chang, Philippus Baalman, PoAn Yang, Ritika Reddy, Shivsundar R, > sstremler, Sushant Mahajan, TaiJuWu, Tirth, zhiyan-tang > > 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, > > PoAn > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.2.1 >
