The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 2.1.0
This is a major release and includes significant features from 28 KIPs. It contains fixes and improvements from 179 JIRSs, including a few critical bug fixes. Here is a summary of some notable changes ** Java 11 support ** Support for Zstandard, which achieves compression comparable to gzip with higher compression and especially decompression speeds(KIP-110) ** Avoid expiring committed offsets for active consumer group (KIP-211) ** Provide Intuitive User Timeouts in The Producer (KIP-91) ** Kafka's replication protocol now supports improved fencing of zombies. Previously, under certain rare conditions, if a broker became partitioned from Zookeeper but not the rest of the cluster, then the logs of replicated partitions could diverge and cause data loss in the worst case (KIP-320) ** Streams API improvements (KIP-319, KIP-321, KIP-330, KIP-353, KIP-356) ** Admin script and admin client API improvements to simplify admin operation (KIP-231, KIP-308, KIP-322, KIP-324, KIP-338, KIP-340) ** DNS handling improvements (KIP-235, KIP-302) All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html You can download the source and binary release (Scala <VERSIONS>) from: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.1.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream 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 100 contributors to this release! Ahmed Al Mehdi, Aleksei Izmalkin, Alex Dunayevsky, Amit Sela, Andras Katona, Andy Coates, Anna Povzner, Arjun Satish, Attila Sasvari, Aviem Zur, Bibin Sebastian, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, Brandon Kirchner, Bridger Howell, Chia-Ping Tsai, Colin Hicks, Colin Patrick McCabe, Dhruvil Shah, Dong Lin, Edoardo Comar, Eugen Feller, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Filipe Agapito, Flavien Raynaud, Gantigmaa Selenge, Gardner Vickers, Gitomain, Gunnar Morling, Guozhang Wang, hashangayasri, huxi, huxihx, Ismael Juma, Jagadesh Adireddi, Jason Gustafson, Jim Galasyn, Jimin Hsieh, Jimmy Casey, Joan Goyeau, John Roesler, Jon Lee, jonathanskrzypek, Jun Rao, Kamal Chandraprakash, Kevin Lafferty, Kevin Lu, Koen De Groote, Konstantine Karantasis, lambdaliu, Lee Dongjin, Lincong Li, Liquan Pei, lucapette, Lucas Wang, Maciej Bryński, Magesh Nandakumar, Manikumar Reddy, Manikumar Reddy O, Mario Molina, Marko Stanković, Matthias J. Sax, Matthias Wessendorf, Max Zheng, Mayank Tankhiwale, mgharat, Michal Dziemianko, Michał Borowiecki, Mickael Maison, Mutasem Aldmour, Nikolay, nixsticks, nprad, okumin, Radai Rosenblatt, radai-rosenblatt, Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Robert Yokota, Rohan, Ron Dagostino, Sam Lendle, Sandor Murakozi, Simon Clark, Stanislav Kozlovski, Stephane Maarek, Sébastien Launay, Sönke Liebau, Ted Yu, uncleGen, Vahid Hashemian, Viktor Somogyi, wangshao, xinzhg, Xiongqi Wesley Wu, Xiongqi Wu, ying-zheng, Yishun Guan, Yu Yang, Zhanxiang (Patrick) Huang 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, Dong
