Thanks for driving the release Bill! -Matthias
On 3/12/20 1:22 PM, Bill Bejeck wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 2.4.1 > > This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from 39 > JIRAs, including a few critical bugs. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.4.1/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#2.4.1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 35 contributors to this release! > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Alex Kokachev, bill, Bill Bejeck, Boyang Chen, > Brian Bushree, Brian Byrne, Bruno Cadonna, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, > Colin Patrick McCabe, David Jacot, David Kim, David Mao, Dhruvil Shah, > Gunnar Morling, Guozhang Wang, huxi, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, Jason > Gustafson, John Roesler, Konstantine Karantasis, Lev Zemlyanov, Manikumar > Reddy, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. Sax, Michael Gyarmathy, Michael Viamari, > Nigel Liang, Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Tomislav, Vikas Singh, Xin Wang > > 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, > > Bill Bejeck >
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