Thanks Josep for running this release! Mickael
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 3:23 PM Josep Prat <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 3.8.1 > > 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/3.8.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_381_release_announcement > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala <VERSIONS>) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.8.1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 24 contributors to this release! > (Please report an unintended omission) > > Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Bill Bejeck, Bruno Cadonna, Chia-Ping > Tsai, Chris Egerton, Colin P. McCabe, David Arthur, Guillaume Mallet, > Igor Soarez, Josep Prat, Justine Olshan, Ken Huang, Kondrat Bertalan, > Kuan-Po Tseng, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael > Maison, PoAn Yang, Rohan, TengYao Chi, Vikas Singh > > 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, > > Josep Prat > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 3.8.1
