Than you for driving this release, Sophie! And thanks to everyone that contributed. Congratulations!
Best regards, Randall On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:43 PM Sophie Blee-Goldman <ableegold...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 2.6.2 > > This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from > 35 JIRAs, including a few critical bugs. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.6.2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 > and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.6.2 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 26 contributors to this release! > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Andy Wilkinson, Bob Barrett, Bruno Cadonna, > Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, dengziming, Greg Harris, Ismael Juma, Jim > Galasyn, John Roesler, Julien Jean Paul Sirocchi, Lee Dongjin, Luke Chen, > Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Michael G. Noll, Mickael Maison, Rajini > Sivaram, Ramesh Krishnan M, Randall Hauch, Sharath Bhat, Stanislav > Vodetskyi, Walker Carlson, Yilong Chang > > 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! > > > Cheers, > > Sophie >
