Thanks to everyone who reviewed the Apache blog post about 2.3. It's live now at https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/date/20190624
Plus, Tim Berglund made a video about what's new in this release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNqwJT2WguQ Finally, check out Stéphane Maarek's video about 2.3 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutjYKSGd64 cheers, Colin On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, at 09:40, Colin McCabe wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 2.3.0. > This release includes several new features, including: > > - There have been several improvements to the Kafka Connect REST API. > - Kafka Connect now supports incremental cooperative rebalancing. > - Kafka Streams now supports an in-memory session store and window > store. > - The AdminClient now allows users to determine what operations they > are authorized to perform on topics. > - There is a new broker start time metric. > - JMXTool can now connect to secured RMI ports. > - An incremental AlterConfigs API has been added. The old AlterConfigs > API has been deprecated. > - We now track partitions which are under their min ISR count. > - Consumers can now opt-out of automatic topic creation, even when it > is enabled on the broker. > - Kafka components can now use external configuration stores (KIP-421) > - We have implemented improved replica fetcher behavior when errors are > encountered > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.3.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.11 and 2.12) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.3.0 > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.3.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.11 and 2.12) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.3.0 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 101 contributors to this release! > > Aishwarya Gune, Alex Diachenko, Alex Dunayevsky, Anna Povzner, Arabelle > Hou, Arjun Satish, A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, asutosh936, Bill Bejeck, Bob > Barrett, Boyang Chen, Brian Bushree, cadonna, Casey Green, Chase > Walden, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Chris Steingen, Colin Hicks, > Colin Patrick McCabe, commandini, cwildman, Cyrus Vafadari, Dan > Norwood, David Arthur, Dejan Stojadinović, Dhruvil Shah, Doroszlai, > Attila, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Fangbin Sun, Filipe Agapito, Florian > Hussonnois, Gardner Vickers, Guozhang Wang, Gwen Shapira, Hai-Dang Dam, > highluck, huxi, huxihx, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, Jarrod Urban, > Jason Gustafson, John Roesler, José Armando García Sancio, Joyce Fee, > Jun Rao, KartikVK, Kengo Seki, Kevin Lu, khairy, Konstantine > Karantasis, Kristian Aurlien, Kyle Ambroff-Kao, lambdaliu, Lee Dongjin, > Lifei Chen, Lucas Bradstreet, Lysss, lzh3636, Magesh Nandakumar, > Manikumar Reddy, Mark Cho, Massimo Siani, Matthias J. Sax, Michael > Gruben Trejo, Mickael Maison, Murad, Nicholas Parker, opera443399, Paul > Davidson, pierDipi, pkleindl, Radai Rosenblatt, Rajini Sivaram, Randall > Hauch, Rohan, Rohan Desai, Ron Dagostino, Ryan Chen, saisandeep, > sandmannn, sdreynolds, Sebastián Ortega, Shaobo Liu, Sönke Liebau, > Stanislav Kozlovski, Suman BN, tadsul, Tcsalist, Ted Yu, Vahid > Hashemian, Victoria Bialas, Viktor Somogyi, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Vito > Jeng, wenhoujx, Xiongqi Wu, 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, > Colin >