Big thank you to all the contributors and to Omnia for managing the release!
On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 08:37, Mickael Maison <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations and thanks to all the contributors! > > Mickael > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM Andrew Schofield <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Thanks Omnia for driving the release. > > > > On 2026/10/26 20:03:12 Chia-Ping Tsai wrote: > > > Thanks to all contributors, and big thanks to Omnia for driving the > > > release! > > > > > > On 2026-10-26 19:52 UTC Omnia Ibrahim wrote: > > > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > > > > Apache Kafka 4.4.0 > > > > > > > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > > > > > > > > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.4.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > > > > > > > > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > > > > https://kafka.apache.org/blog > > > > > > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13) from: > > > > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.4.0 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 151 contributors (and 8 AIs) to this > > > > release! (Please report an unintended omission) > > > > > > > > Matthias J. Sax, Ken Huang, Mickael Maison, Nick Telford, Sushant > > > > Mahajan, majialong, PoAn Yang, David Jacot, Murali Basani, Alieh > > > > Saeedi, Lianet Magrans, Bill Bejeck, Ming-Yen Chung, Sean Quah, Andrew > > > > Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, TengYao Chi, ChickenchickenLove, Sanskar > > > > Jhajharia, Gabriella Fu, Lucy Liu, Maros Orsak, nileshkumar3, Evan > > > > Zhou, YANG-SYUAN CHOU, Alan Lau, Jess668, Lucas Brutschy, Uladzislau > > > > Blok, Chia-Yi Chiu, Eric Chang, Federico Valeri, Kuan-Po Tseng, Aditya > > > > Kousik, Gaurav Narula, Nikita Shupletsov, TaiJuWu, Gavin Wang, Jiayao > > > > Sun, Shekhar Prasad Rajak, Chih-Yuan Chien, Eduwer Camacaro, Gergely > > > > Harmadas, Manikumar Reddy, Mingi Cho, Paolo Patierno, Ivan Yurchenko, > > > > Nick Guo, Omnia Ibrahim, gomudayya, sstremler, Bolin Lin, Christo > > > > Lolov, CoderBruis, Dejan Stojadinović, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo Comar, Igor > > > > Soarez, Jian, KC.H, Kevin Wu, Lan Ding, LeiXiaoGao, Parker Chang, > > > > Russole Chen, Sebastien Viale, yangxuze, Adam Souquières, Arpit Goyal, > > > > Avishek Das, Gabriel Dutra, Hector Geraldino, Jakub Scholz, Kai Jay Tu, > > > > Kartikay Dubey, Kirk True, Luke Chen, Park Jiwon, RonGamzu, Sahil > > > > Devgon, Yunchi Pang, Zheguang Zhao, Zhiyan Tang, ashwinpankaj, > > > > dependabot[bot], gabriellefu, mannoopj, red-flames, zoo-code, 조형준, > > > > Abhijeet Kumar, Adam Horky, Alyssa Huang, Amir Sarabadani, Andy Huang, > > > > Angelo R., Anton Liauchuk, Aravind Reveendran, Arnab Nandy, Arpit Jain, > > > > Atharv Chavan, Brian Sang, Chang-Chi Hsu, Charlie Zhang, Daeho Kwon, > > > > Daniel Tschinder, David Simon, Davide Armand, Derek Ko, Diya Hussein, > > > > Dmitry Werner, Fatorin, Ganesh Manchi, Gimin Kim, Gyeongwon Do, Hana, > > > > Ivan Malutin, Joanna-D, Jonah Hooper, José Armando García Sancio, Kamal > > > > Chandraprakash, Kenan Adel, Kondrat Bertalan, Lucas Ma, Mirko > > > > Alicastro, Nandini Singhal, Nikolaus Schuetz, Nishant Kumar, Prabhash > > > > Kumar, Rajarshi Misra, Rion Williams, Ritika Reddy, Ritikj55, S.Y. > > > > Wang, Sepuri Sai Krishna, Shivsundar R, Siddhartha Devineni, Taeik Lim, > > > > Tamas Kornai, Tommi Vainikainen, Truc Nguyen, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Xi, > > > > Yu-Chia Ma, akhil-sabu-ibm, amandayclee, averemee-si, minjcho, > > > > subbudvk, winfriedgerlach > > > > > > > > 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, > > > > > > > > Omnia > > > > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.4.0 > > >
