Thanks for the great release management Randall and thanks to the contributors for all the nice improvements and new features!
Konstantine On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:40 AM Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you so much for driving the release Randall! > > Guozhang > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 7:35 AM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > > > Thanks for driving the releas, Randall. Congratulations to all the > > contributors! :) > > > > Ismael > > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 7:21 AM 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 > > > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
