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
