Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward!
> Justine Olshan <jols...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道： > > 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 >>> >>
