Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this release!! Thanks Mickael for running the release!
On Tue, 9 Sept 2025 at 07:55, Luke Chen <show...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for running this release! > Great work! > > Luke > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM Lucas Brutschy > <lbruts...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > > > Thanks Mickael, great job > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM Kamal Chandraprakash > > <kamal.chandraprak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > >>> > > > > >> > > > > > >
