Congratulations to the community and thanks to all the contributors. Thanks for driving the release, Sophie!
-Bill On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 4:49 PM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> wrote: > Than you for driving this release, Sophie! And thanks to everyone that > contributed. Congratulations! > > Best regards, > > Randall > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:43 PM Sophie Blee-Goldman < > ableegold...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > > Kafka 2.6.2 > > > > This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from > > 35 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/2.6.2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 > > and 2.13) from: > > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.6.2 > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: > > > > > > ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream of 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 26 contributors to this release! > > > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Andy Wilkinson, Bob Barrett, Bruno Cadonna, > > Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, dengziming, Greg Harris, Ismael Juma, Jim > > Galasyn, John Roesler, Julien Jean Paul Sirocchi, Lee Dongjin, Luke Chen, > > Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Michael G. Noll, Mickael Maison, Rajini > > Sivaram, Ramesh Krishnan M, Randall Hauch, Sharath Bhat, Stanislav > > Vodetskyi, Walker Carlson, Yilong Chang > > > > 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! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Sophie > > >
