Thanks for driving the release John! Ismael
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 1:40 PM John Roesler <vvcep...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the > release for Apache Kafka 2.5.1 > > This is a bug fix release, and it includes fixes and > improvements for 72 issues, including some critical bugs. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the > release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.5.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 > and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.5.1 > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------- > > > 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 42 contributors to this > release! > > Adam Bellemare, Andras Katona, Andy Coates, Anna Povzner, A. > Sophie Blee-Goldman, Auston, belugabehr, Bill Bejeck, Boyang > Chen, Bruno Cadonna, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, David > Arthur, David Jacot, Dezhi “Andy” Fang, Dima Reznik, Ego, > Evelyn Bayes, Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Greg Harris, Guozhang > Wang, Ismael Juma, Jason Gustafson, Jeff Widman, Jeremy > Custenborder, jiameixie, John Roesler, Jorge Esteban > Quilcate Otoya, Konstantine Karantasis, Lucent-Wong, Mario > Molina, Matthias J. Sax, Navinder Pal Singh Brar, Nikolay, > Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Sanjana Kaundinya, showuon, > Steve Rodrigues, Tom Bentley, Tu V. Tran, vinoth chandar > > 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, > > John Roesler > >
