The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 2.5.0
This release includes many new features, including: * TLS 1.3 support (1.2 is now the default) * Co-groups for Kafka Streams * Incremental rebalance for Kafka Consumer * New metrics for better operational insight * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.7 * Deprecate support for Scala 2.11 All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.5.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 108 contributors to this release! A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Adam Bellemare, Alaa Zbair, Alex Kokachev, Alex Leung, Alex Mironov, Alice, Andrew Olson, Andy Coates, Anna Povzner, Antony Stubbs, Arvind Thirunarayanan, belugabehr, bill, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, Boyang Chen, Brian Bushree, Brian Byrne, Bruno Cadonna, Bryan Ji, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Chris Pettitt, Chris Stromberger, Colin P. Mccabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, commandini, Cyrus Vafadari, Dae-Ho Kim, David Arthur, David Jacot, David Kim, David Mao, dengziming, Dhruvil Shah, Edoardo Comar, Eduardo Pinto, Fábio Silva, gkomissarov, Grant Henke, Greg Harris, Gunnar Morling, Guozhang Wang, Harsha Laxman, high.lee, highluck, Hossein Torabi, huxi, huxihx, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, Jason Gustafson, jiameixie, John Roesler, José Armando García Sancio, Jukka Karvanen, Karan Kumar, Kevin Lu, Konstantine Karantasis, Lee Dongjin, Lev Zemlyanov, Levani Kokhreidze, Lucas Bradstreet, Manikumar Reddy, Mathias Kub, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. Sax, Michael Gyarmathy, Michael Viamari, Mickael Maison, Mitch, mmanna-sapfgl, NanerLee, Narek Karapetian, Navinder Pal Singh Brar, nicolasguyomar, Nigel Liang, NIkhil Bhatia, Nikolay, ning2008wisc, Omkar Mestry, Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, ravowlga123, Raymond Ng, Ron Dagostino, sainath batthala, Sanjana Kaundinya, Scott, Seungha Lee, Simon Clark, Stanislav Kozlovski, Svend Vanderveken, Sönke Liebau, Ted Yu, Tom Bentley, Tomislav, Tu Tran, Tu V. Tran, uttpal, Vikas Singh, Viktor Somogyi, vinoth chandar, wcarlson5, Will James, Xin Wang, zzccctv 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, David Arthur
