Dear Kafka PMC, Thanks for taking care to follow ASF policy for your download pages. https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-announcements
Your download page needs to be corrected. The artifact download links must not use downloads.apache.org but must use either a closer.lua script or dlcdn.apache.org. Warm regards, Craig > On Dec 13, 2024, at 15:16, Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> wrote: > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 3.7.2 > > This is a bug-fix release, closing 21 Jira tickets. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.7.2/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.7.2 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 31 contributors to this release! (Please > report an unintended omission) > > Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Bill Bejeck, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, > Christo Lolov, Colin P. McCabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, David Arthur, Divij > Vaidya, Dmitry Werner, Gaurav Narula, Greg Harris, Igor Soarez, Josep Prat, > Ken Huang, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Laxman Ch, Lianet > Magrans, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Omnia > Ibrahim, PoAn Yang, Rohan, TengYao Chi, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh > > 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, > -Matthias J. Sax > > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 3.7.2 > > Craig L Russell c...@apache.org
