Thanks to Mickael for driving the 4.3.0 release
> Mickael Maison <[email protected]> 於 2026年5月22日 晚上8:29 寫道： > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 4.3.0 > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.3.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog/2026/05/22/apache-kafka-4.3.0-release-announcement/ > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.3.0 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 147 contributors (and 3 AIs) to this > release! (Please report an unintended omission) > > 高春晖, 조형준, Abhijeet Kumar, Abhinav Dixit, Alieh Saeedi, Alyssa Huang, > Andrew Schofield, Aneesh Garg, Angelo R., Anton Vasanth, ANUSHREE > BONDIA, Apoorv Mittal, Arpit Goyal, Artem Livshits, averemee-si, Bill > Bejeck, Bolin Lin, Calvin Liu, Chang-Chi Hsu, Chang-Yu Huang, > Chia-Ping Tsai, Chia-Yi Chiu, ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, > Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Egerton, Christo Lolov, Claude, Claude Sonnet > 4.6, Copilot, cui, Dale Lane, David Arthur, David Jacot, Deepak Goyal, > Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Ding, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, > Donny Nadolny, Edoardo Comar, Eduwer Camacaro, Emanuele Rabino, > Emmanuel Oppong, Eric Chang, Erik Anderson, Evan Zhou, Federico > Valeri, Fiore Mario Vitale, gabriellefu, Gaurav Narula, Gianmarco, > Giuseppe Lillo, gomudayya, Gyeongwon, Do, Harish Vishwanath, Hector > Geraldino, high.lee, Himanshu Verma, Hong-Yi Chen, Hy (하이), hy-rice, > Ibuki Kaji, Ilyas Toumlilt, Ismael Juma, Izzy Harker, J.V.S Aarathi, > Jacob Montemayor, JeevanYewale, Jhen-Yung Hsu, Jian, Jiayao Sun, > jimmy, Jinhe Zhang, Joanna-D, Jonah Hooper, José Armando García > Sancio, Josep Prat, Jun Rao, Justine Olshan, k-apol, Kamal > Chandraprakash, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, khilesh Chaganti, Kirk True, > Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, Levani Kokhreidze, Lianet Magrans, Lucas > Brutschy, Lucy Liu, Luke Chen, Ma Jialong, Mahsa Seifikar, > manan.gupta, Manikumar Reddy, mannoopj, Maros Orsak, Matthias J. Sax, > Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Moshe Blumberg, Murali Basani, Nandini > Singhal, Nick Guo, Nick Telford, Nikita Shupletsov, Nilesh Kumar, Lan > Ding, Paolo Patierno, Park Jiwon, Parker Chang, Philippus Baalman, > PoAn Yang, Prabhash Kumar, Raghu Baddam, Rajarshi Misra, Rion > Williams, Rion Williams,, Ritika Reddy, Robin Marechal, runom, S.Y. > Wang, Saket Ranjan, Sanskar Jhajharia, Santhan3159, Sean Quah, > Shashank, Shivsundar R, Siddhartha Devineni, sstremler, Steven > Schlansker, Stig Døssing, Sushant Mahajan, TaiJuWu, TengYao Chi, > Tirth, tison, Uladzislau Blok, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Vincent Jiang, > Vincent Potuček, Xuan-Zhang Gong, Zheguang Zhao, Zhiyan Tang, zoo-code > > 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 > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.3.0
