Thanks for managing the release Vahid! Ismael
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:23 AM Vahid Hashemian <va...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 2.2.1 > > This is a bugfix release for Kafka 2.2.0. All of the changes in this > release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.2.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > You can download the source and binary release from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.2.1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 30 contributors to this release! > > Anna Povzner, Arabelle Hou, A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Bill Bejeck, Bob > Barrett, Chris Egerton, Colin Patrick McCabe, Cyrus Vafadari, Dhruvil Shah, > Doroszlai, Attila, Guozhang Wang, huxi, Jason Gustafson, John Roesler, > Konstantine Karantasis, Kristian Aurlien, Lifei Chen, Magesh Nandakumar, > Manikumar Reddy, Massimo Siani, Matthias J. Sax, Nicholas Parker, pkleindl, > Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Sebastián Ortega, Vahid Hashemian, Victoria > Bialas, Yaroslav Klymko, 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, > --Vahid Hashemian >
