Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release! On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <apoorvmitta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > >
