Thanks, John, for driving this release! Randall
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:33 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
