A correction to a funny mistake in my previous message: That's *61 contributors* to this release, not 1086!
-- Igor Soarez On Mon, Jul 1, 2024, at 11:25 AM, Igor Soarez wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 3.7.1 > > This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.7.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.7.1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 1086 contributors to this release! (Please > report an unintended omission) > > Adrian Preston, Anatoly Popov, Andras Katona, Andrew Schofield, Anna Sophie > Blee-Goldman, Anton Liauchuk, Apoorv Mittal, Ayoub Omari, Bill Bejeck, Bruno > Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cameron Redpath, Cheng-Kai Zhang, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris > Egerton, Colin Patrick McCabe, David Arthur, David Jacot, Divij Vaidya, > Dmitry Werner, Edoardo Comar, flashmouse, Florin Akermann, Gantigmaa Selenge, > Gaurav Narula, Greg Harris, Igor Soarez, ilyazr, Ismael Juma, Jason > Gustafson, Jeff Kim, jiangyuan, Joel Hamill, John Yu, Johnny Hsu, José > Armando García Sancio, Josep Prat, Jun Rao, Justine Olshan, Kamal > Chandraprakash, Ken Huang, Kuan-Po (Cooper) Tseng, Lokesh Kumar, Luke Chen, > Manikumar Reddy, Mario Pareja, Matthias J. Sax, Mayank Shekhar Narula, > Mickael Maison, Murali Basani, Omnia Ibrahim, Paolo Patierno, PoAn Yang, > Sagar Rao, sanepal, Sean Quah, Sebastian Marsching, Stanislav Kozlovski, > Vedarth Sharma, Walker Carlson, Yash Mayya > > 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, > > -- > Igor Soarez > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 3.7.1 >
