Yay! Thanks for running the release Colin, and to everyone who reported and fixed bugs :)
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 3:37 PM Colin McCabe <cmcc...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 2.1.1. > > This is a bugfix release for Kafka 2.1.0. All of the changes in this > release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.1.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > You can download the source and binary release from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.1.1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: > > ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream 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 46 contributors to this release! > > Alex Diachenko, Andras Katona, Anna Povzner, Arjun Satish, Bill Bejeck, > Bob Barrett, cadonna, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Colin P. McCabe, > cwildman, Cyrus Vafadari, Dhruvil Shah, Dong Lin, Flavien Raynaud, Guozhang > Wang, hackerwin7, huxi, Ismael Juma, Jacek Laskowski, Jakub Scholz, Jarek > Rudzinski, Jason Gustafson, John Roesler, Jonathan Santilli, Konstantine > Karantasis, lambdaliu, layfe, Lee Dongjin, linyli001, Lucas Bradstreet, > Magesh Nandakumar, Mark Cho, Matthias J. Sax, mingaliu, Pasquale Vazzana, > Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Renato Mefi, Robert Yokota, Ron Dagostino, > slim, Stig Rohde Døssing, Vahid Hashemian, and Xi Yang. > > 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, > Colin McCabe >
