Thanks Mickael for running the release! On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > >>> > >> >
