Thanks for driving the release Randall! Congratulations to everybody involved - awesome work!
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:21 PM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 2.6.0 > > * TLSv1.3 has been enabled by default for Java 11 or newer. > * Significant performance improvements, especially when the broker has > large numbers of partitions > * Smooth scaling out of Kafka Streams applications > * Kafka Streams support for emit on change > * New metrics for better operational insight > * Kafka Connect can automatically create topics for source connectors > * Improved error reporting options for sink connectors in Kafka Connect > * New Filter and conditional SMTs in Kafka Connect > * The default value for the `client.dns.lookup` configuration is > now `use_all_dns_ips` > * Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.5.8 > > This release also includes other features, 74 improvements, 175 bug fixes, > plus other changes. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.6.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.6.0 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 127 contributors to this release! > > 17hao, A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Aakash Shah, Adam Bellemare, Agam Brahma, > Alaa Zbair, Alexandra Rodoni, Andras Katona, Andrew Olson, Andy Coates, > Aneel Nazareth, Anna Povzner, Antony Stubbs, Arjun Satish, Auston, avalsa, > Badai Aqrandista, belugabehr, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, Boyang Chen, Brian > Bushree, Brian Byrne, Bruno Cadonna, Charles Feduke, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris > Egerton, Colin Patrick McCabe, Daniel, Daniel Beskin, David Arthur, David > Jacot, David Mao, dengziming, Dezhi “Andy” Fang, Dima Reznik, Dominic > Evans, Ego, Eric Bolinger, Evelyn Bayes, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, fantayeneh, > feyman2016, Florian Hussonnois, Gardner Vickers, Greg Harris, Gunnar > Morling, Guozhang Wang, high.lee, Hossein Torabi, huxi, Ismael Juma, Jason > Gustafson, Jeff Huang, jeff kim, Jeff Widman, Jeremy Custenborder, Jiamei > Xie, jiameixie, jiao, Jim Galasyn, Joel Hamill, John Roesler, Jorge Esteban > Quilcate Otoya, José Armando García Sancio, Konstantine Karantasis, Kowshik > Prakasam, Kun Song, Lee Dongjin, Leonard Ge, Lev Zemlyanov, Levani > Kokhreidze, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson, Lucas Bradstreet, Lucent-Wong, Magnus > Edenhill, Manikumar Reddy, Mario Molina, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. Sax, > maulin-vasavada, Michael Viamari, Michal T, Mickael Maison, Mitch, Navina > Ramesh, Navinder Pal Singh Brar, nicolasguyomar, Nigel Liang, Nikolay, > Okada Haruki, Paul, Piotr Fras, Radai Rosenblatt, Rajini Sivaram, Randall > Hauch, Rens Groothuijsen, Richard Yu, Rigel Bezerra de Melo, Rob Meng, > Rohan, Ron Dagostino, Sanjana Kaundinya, Scott, Scott Hendricks, sebwills, > Shailesh Panwar, showuon, SoontaekLim, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steve > Rodrigues, Svend Vanderveken, Sönke Liebau, THREE LEVEL HELMET, Tom > Bentley, Tu V. Tran, Valeria, Vikas Singh, Viktor Somogyi, vinoth chandar, > Vito Jeng, Xavier Léauté, xiaodongdu, Zach Zhang, zhaohaidao, zshuo, 阿洋 > > 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, > > Randall Hauch > -- Best, Stanislav
