Thanks Mickael, great job
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM Kamal Chandraprakash <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Mickael for running the release! > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward! > > > > > Justine Olshan <[email protected]> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道： > > > > > > Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release! > > > > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release. > > >> > > >> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September: > > >> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September? > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> Apoorv Mittal > > >> > > >> > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > > >>> Apache Kafka 4.1.0 > > >>> > > >>> The release brings many new features and improvements: > > >>> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics > > >>> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins > > >>> - Queue are now in preview access > > >>> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access > > >>> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type > > >>> - Improved metadata replication > > >>> > > >>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > > >>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > >>> > > >>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > > >>> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement > > >>> > > >>> You can download the source and binary release from: > > >>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0 > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> > > >>> 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 167 contributors to this release! > > >>> (Please report an unintended omission) > > >>> > > >>> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh > > >>> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li, > > >>> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck, > > >>> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai, > > >>> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood, > > >>> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt > > >>> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur, > > >>> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar > > >>> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo > > >>> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng, > > >>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler, > > >>> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni, > > >>> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu > > >>> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu, > > >>> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca > > >>> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate > > >>> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine > > >>> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang, > > >>> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, > > >>> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc > > >>> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa > > >>> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax, > > >>> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick > > >>> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki, > > >>> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang, > > >>> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika > > >>> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish > > >>> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan > > >>> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker, > > >>> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas > > >>> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau > > >>> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor > > >>> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong, > > >>> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang, > > >>> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong 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, > > >>> > > >>> Mickael Maison > > >>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0 > > >>> > > >> > >
