satishd commented on code in PR #547: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka-site/pull/547#discussion_r1331713531
########## blog.html: ########## @@ -22,6 +22,46 @@ <!--#include virtual="includes/_nav.htm" --> <div class="right"> <h1 class="content-title">Blog</h1> + <article> + <h2 class="bullet"> + <a id="apache_kafka_360_release_announcement"></a> + <a href="#apache_kafka_360_release_announcement">Apache Kafka 3.6.0 Release Announcement</a> + </h2> + 15 Sep 2023 - Satish Duggana (<a href="https://twitter.com/0xeed">@SatishDuggana</a>) + <p>We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.6.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/3.6.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html">release notes</a>.</p> + <p>See the <a href="https://kafka.apache.org/36/documentation.html#upgrade_3_6_0">Upgrading to 3.6.0 from any version 0.8.x through 3.5.x</a> section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.</p> + <p>The ability to migrate Kafka clusters from ZK to KRaft mode with no downtime is still an early access feature. It is currently only suitable for testing in non production environments. See <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-866+ZooKeeper+to+KRaft+Migration">KIP-866</a> for more details.</p> + <p><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-405%3A+Kafka+Tiered+Storage">Tiered Storage<a> is an early access feature. It is currently only suitable for testing in non production environments. See <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Tiered+Storage+Early+Access+Release+Notes">Early Access Notes</a> for more details.</p> + + <p><it>Note: ZooKeeper is marked as deprecated since 3.5.0 release. ZooKeeper is planned to be removed in Apache Kafka 4.0. (Cf <a href="/documentation#zk_depr">ZooKeeper Deprecation</a>)</it><p> + <h3>Kafka Broker, Controller, Producer, Consumer and Admin Client</h3> + <ul> + <li><b>KIP-405: Kafka Tiered Storage</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-405%3A+Kafka+Tiered+Storage">KIP-405</a>. It introduces tiered storage feature in Kafka that provides separation of computation and storage in the broker.</li> + <li><b>KIP-797: Accept duplicate listener on port for IPv4/IPv6</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=195726330">KIP-797</a>. Brokers can be configured with listeners that have same port on different ip stack like ipv4 and ipv6.</li> + <li><b>KIP-863: Reduce CompletedFetch#parseRecord() memory copy</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=225152035">KIP-863</a>. Reduced CompletedFetch#parseRecord() memory copy by deserializing using byte buffers.</li> + <li><b>KIP-868: Metadata Transactions</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-868+Metadata+Transactions">KIP-868</a>. This feature is about allowing the controller to generate atomic transactions of records that can exceed the maximum batch size.</li> + <li><b>KIP-902: Upgrade Zookeeper to 3.8.2</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-902%3A+Upgrade+Zookeeper+to+3.8.1">KIP-902</a>. Zookeeper client upgraded to 3.8.2 version as the current zookeeper dependency version 3.6.3 reached the end of life.</li> + <li><b>KIP-917: Additional custom metadata for remote log segment</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-917%3A+Additional+custom+metadata+for+remote+log+segment">KIP-917</a>. Custom metedata support for remote log segments.</li> + <li><b>KIP-930: Rename ambiguous Tiered Storage Metrics</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-930%3A+Rename+ambiguous+Tiered+Storage+Metrics">KIP-930</a>. Renamed ambiguous tiered storage metrics.</li> + <li><b>KIP-937: Improve Message Timestamp Validation</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-937%3A+Improve+Message+Timestamp+Validation">KIP-937</a>. Improved Producer's record timestamp validation.</li> + <li><b>KIP-938: Add more metrics for measuring KRaft performance</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-938%3A+Add+more+metrics+for+measuring+KRaft+performance">KIP-938</a>. Added the targeted KRaft performance metrics mentioned in KIP-938 except ForwardingManager metrics.</li> + </ul> + <h3>Kafka Streams</h3> + <ul> + <li><b>KIP-923: Add A Grace Period to Stream Table Join</b>: <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-923%3A+Add+A+Grace+Period+to+Stream+Table+Join">KIP-923</a>Added a grace period to Stream Table join.</li> + <li><b>KIP-941: Range queries to accept null lower and upper bounds</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-941%3A+Range+queries+to+accept+null+lower+and+upper+bounds">KIP-941</a> Range queries accept lower and upper bounds as null values.</li> + </ul> + <h3>Kafka Connect</h3> + <ul> + <li><b>KIP-793: Allow sink connectors to be used with topic-mutating SMTs</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-793%3A+Allow+sink+connectors+to+be+used+with+topic-mutating+SMTs">KIP-793</a>. It supports topic-mutating SMTs for async sink connectors.</li> + <li><b>KIP-875: First-class offsets support in Kafka Connect</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-875%3A+First-class+offsets+support+in+Kafka+Connect">KIP-875</a>. Kafka Connect supports offset reset.</li> + <li><b>KIP-898: Modernize Connect plugin discovery</b><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-898%3A+Modernize+Connect+plugin+discovery">KIP-898</a>.The worker will read plugin classes from ServiceLoader manifests and module info during startup.</li> + </ul> + <h3>Summary</h3> + <p>This was a community effort, so thank you to everyone who contributed to this release, including all our users and our 144 contributors: + A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Aaron Ai, Abhijeet Kumar, aindriu-aiven, Akhilesh C, Akhilesh Chaganti, Alexandre Dupriez, Alexandre Garnier, Alok Thatikunta, Alyssa Huang, Aman Singh, Andras Katona, Andrew Schofield, andymg3, Aneel Kumar, Anna Sophie Blee-Goldman, Anton Agestam, Artem Livshits, atu-sharm, bachmanity1, Bill Bejeck, Bo Gao, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Chaitanya Mukka, Chase Thomas, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Christo Lolov, Clay Johnson, Colin P. McCabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, Colt McNealy, d00791190, Damon Xie, Danica Fine, Daniel Scanteianu, Daniel Urban, David Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao, dengziming, Deqi Hu, Dimitar Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dániel Urbán, Erik van Oosten, ezio, Farooq Qaiser, Federico Valeri, flashmouse, Florin Akermann, Gabriel Oliveira, Gantigmaa Selenge, gaurav-narula, GeunJae Jeon, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Hailey Ni, Hao Li, Hector Geraldino, hudeqi, hzh0425, Iblis Lin, iit2009060, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, James Shaw, Jason Gustafson, Jeff Kim, Jim Galasyn, John Roesler, Joobi S B, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, Josep Prat, Joseph (Ting-Chou) Lin, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Keith Wall, Kirk True, Lianet Magrans, LinShunKang, Liu Zeyu, lixy, Lucas Bradstreet, Lucas Brutschy, Lucent-Wong, Lucia Cerchie, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Manyanda Chitimbo, Maros Orsak, Matthew de Detrich, Matthias J. Sax, maulin-vasavada, Max Riedel, Mehari Beyene, Michal Cabak (@miccab), Mickael Maison, Milind Mantri, minjian.cai, mojh7, Nikolay, Okada Haruki, Omnia G H Ibrahim, Omnia G.H Ibrahim, Owen Leung, Philip Nee, prasanthV, Proven Provenzano, Purshotam Chauhan, Qichao Chu, Qichao Chu (@ex172000), Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Renaldo Baur Filho, Ritika Reddy, Rittika Adhikari, Rohan, Ron Dagostino, Sagar Rao, Said Boudjelda, Sambhav Jain, Satish Duggana, sciclon2, Shekhar Rajak, Sungyun Hur, Sushant Mahajan, Tanay Karmarkar, tison, Tom Bentl ey, vamossagar12, Victoria Xia, Vincent Jiang, vveicc, Walker Carlson, Yash Mayya, Yi-Sheng Lien, Ziming Deng, 蓝士钦 Review Comment: @gaurav-narula @mumrah Updated with the duplicate removal and other name changes. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. 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