Thanks to all who contributed to the Apache blog post about 2.4. It's live now at https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/date/20191216
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:30 PM Manikumar <maniku...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 2.4.0 > > This release includes many new features, including: > - Allow consumers to fetch from closest replica > - Support for incremental cooperative rebalancing to the consumer > rebalance protocol > - MirrorMaker 2.0 (MM2), a new multi-cluster, cross-datacenter replication > engine > - New Java authorizer Interface > - Support for non-key joining in KTable > - Administrative API for replica reassignment > - Securing Internal connect REST endpoints > - API to delete consumer offsets and expose it via the AdminClient. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.4.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.11, 2.12 and 2.13) > from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.4.0 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 121 contributors to this release! > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Adam Bellemare, Alex Diachenko, Alex Leung, Alex > Mironov, Alice, Almog Gavra, Anastasia Vela, anatasiavela, Andy Coates, > Antony Stubbs, Arjun Satish, Arlo Louis O'Keeffe, Arvind Thirunarayanan, > asutosh936, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, Boyang Chen, Brian Bushree, Bruno > Cadonna, cadonna, Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara, Cheng Pan, Chia-Ping Tsai, > Chris Egerton, Chris Pettitt, Chris Stromberger, Colin Hicks, Colin P. > Mccabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, cpettitt-confluent, cwildman, Cyrus Vafadari, > David Arthur, David Jacot, Dejan Stojadinović, Dhruvil Shah, Florian > Hussonnois, Gardner Vickers, Gemma Singleton, Grant Henke, Greg Harris, > Gunnar Morling, Guozhang Wang, Gwen Shapira, Hai-Dang Dam, highluck, huxi, > Igor Soarez, Ismael Juma, James Cheng, Jason Gustafson, Jeff Huang, Joel > Hamill, John Roesler, jolshan, José Armando García Sancio, Jukka Karvanen, > Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karan Kumar, Kengo Seki, Kevin Lu, > khairy, Konstantine Karantasis, Lee Dongjin, Lifei Chen, Lucas Bradstreet, > LuyingLiu, Magesh Nandakumar, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Michał > Borowiecki, Michał Siatkowski, Mickael Maison, mjarvie, mmanna-sapfgl, > Nacho Muñoz Gómez, Nathan Murthy, Nigel Liang, NIkhil Bhatia, Nikolay, Omar > Al-Safi, Omkar Mestry, Paul, pkleindl, Rajan Chauhan, Rajini Sivaram, > Randall Hauch, Richard Yu, Robert Yokota, Rohan, Ron Dagostino, Ryanne > Dolan, saisandeep, Scott Hendricks, sdreynolds, Sean Glover, Sergey > Prokofiev, slim, soondenana, Stanislav Kozlovski, Stanislav Vodetskyi, > SuryaTeja Duggi, tadsul, teebee, Tirtha Chatterjee, Tu Tran, Tu V. Tran, > Vahid Hashemian, Victoria Bialas, Vikas Singh, Viktor Somogyi, Viktor > Somogyi-Vass, vinoth chandar, wenhoujx, Wennn, Will James, wineandcheeze, > Yaroslav Tkachenko, 康智冬 > > 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, > Manikumar >
