Thanks for driving this release, Tom!
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 12:50 PM Tom Bentley <tombent...@apache.org> wrote: > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 3.1.1 > > Apache Kafka 3.1.1 is a bugfix release and 30 issues have been fixed > since 3.1.0. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.1.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13 and 2.12) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.1.1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 28 contributors to this release! > > Bounkong Khamphousone, Chris Egerton, David Jacot, dengziming, Ed B, > Edwin, Idan Kamara, Ismael Juma, Jason Gustafson, Jules Ivanic, Justin > Lee, Justine Olshan, Konstantine Karantasis, Kvicii, Luke Chen, Marc > Löhe, Matthias J. Sax, Mike Lothian, Philip Nee, prince-mahajan, > Randall Hauch, Stanislav Vodetskyi, sunshujie1990, Tom Bentley, > Vincent Jiang, Xiaobing Fang, Xiaoyue Xue, Yang Yu > > 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, > Tom
