Thanks Bill for driving this. And Many thanks to all who've contributed to
this release!


Guozhang

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:00 PM Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>

-- 
-- Guozhang

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