Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release. Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
Regards, Apoorv Mittal On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mimai...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 4.1.0 > > The release brings many new features and improvements: > - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics > - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins > - Queue are now in preview access > - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access > - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type > - Improved metadata replication > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement > > You can download the source and binary release from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 167 contributors to this release! > (Please report an unintended omission) > > 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh > Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li, > Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck, > Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai, > ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood, > Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt > McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur, > David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar > Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo > Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng, > Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler, > grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni, > hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu > Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu, > Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca > Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate > Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine > Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang, > Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, > leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc > GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa > Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax, > Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick > Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki, > Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang, > Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika > Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish > Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan > Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker, > Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas > Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau > Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor > Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong, > yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang, > Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu > > 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, > > Mickael Maison > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0 >
