Dear Pulsar enthusiast, This is the Pulsar community weekly update for 2020-06-27 ~ 2020-07-03, with updates on Pulsar.NET Client 1.4.2 release, a new feature (rebalance mechanism) implemented in Pulsar Functions, and so on.
This Pulsar community weekly update is also available at https://streamnative.io/weekly/2020/2020-07/2020-07-03-pulsar-weekly. *All Pulsar community weekly updates are available at **https://streamnative.io/weekly/ <https://streamnative.io/weekly/>.* ================ Development ================ - [Release] Pulsar.NET Client 1.4.2 is released. https://www.nuget.org/packages/Pulsar.Client/1.4.2 ================ Notable Feature ================ - [Function] Implement rebalance mechanism in Pulsar Functions. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7388 - [Broker] After a bundle split, perform the unload in background. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7387 - [Java client] Support authentication with oauth2. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7420 - [Function] Improve security settings of Pulsar Functions. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7424 ================ Notable Bug Fix ================ - [Tiered storage] Fix NPE in GCS offloading operation. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7400 - [Broker] Fix producer stuck issue due to NPE thrown when creating a new ledger. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7401 - [Broker] Avoid NPE at ledger creation when DNS failures happen. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7403 - [Tiered storage] Shaded jclouds to avoid gson conflict. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7435 ================ Event / News ================ - [Pulsar Summit] The first-ever Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 was held on June 17 - 18. This two-day digital event featured more than 30 sessions from top Pulsar contributors and developers. All video recordings and slides are available at https://streamnative.io/resource#pulsar-summit. - [TGIP] Weekly live stream about Pulsar and its ecosystem. All video recordings are available at https://streamnative.io/resource#tgip. ================ Blog / Article ================ - Comparing Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar - Jaroslaw Kijanowski https://blog.softwaremill.com/comparing-apache-kafka-and-apache-pulsar-3bd44e00f304 If we miss anything, welcome to reply to this thread, thank you. Cheers, Penghui Li, Yu Liu