The Apache Storm community is pleased to announce the simultaneous release of Apache Storm versions 2.8.9 and 3.0.0.
Apache Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data. You can read more about Apache Storm on the project website: https://storm.apache.org/ ** Apache Storm 2.8.9 — End of Life ** Apache Storm 2.8.9 is the final release of the Storm 2.x line. The 2.x branch has reached End of Life and will no longer receive bug fixes, security patches, or further releases. Users are encouraged to migrate to Apache Storm 3.0.0, which is API-compatible with Storm 2.x. ** Apache Storm 3.0.0 — New Major Release ** Apache Storm 3.0.0 is a major milestone for the project. All future development and community support will focus on the Storm 3.x stream. Please note that Java 25 is required to run Apache Storm 3.0.0. Starting with 3.0.0, Storm ships in two distribution flavours: - Lite: a smaller distribution without optional Hadoop and Kafka integrations, with on-demand fetch scripts for those dependencies. - Full: the traditional distribution bundling all integrations. The API is fully backwards-compatible with Storm 2.x, so migration should be seamless. Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: https://storm.apache.org/downloads.html You can read more about these releases in the following blog posts: https://storm.apache.org/2026/07/22/storm289-released.html https://storm.apache.org/2026/07/22/storm300-released.html Distribution artifacts are available in Maven Central at the following coordinates: groupId: org.apache.storm artifactId: storm-{component} version: 2.8.9 or 3.0.0 The full list of changes is available here [1][2]. Please let us know [3] if you encounter any problems. Regards, The Apache Storm Team [1] https://downloads.apache.org/storm/apache-storm-2.8.9/RELEASE_NOTES.html [2] https://downloads.apache.org/storm/apache-storm-3.0.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html [3] https://github.com/apache/storm/issues
