The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 2.8.0
Kafka 2.8.0 includes a number of significant new features. Here is a summary of some notable changes: * Early access of replace ZooKeeper with a self-managed quorum * Add Describe Cluster API * Support mutual TLS authentication on SASL_SSL listeners * JSON request/response debug logs * Limit broker connection creation rate * Topic identifiers * Expose task configurations in Connect REST API * Update Streams FSM to clarify ERROR state meaning * Extend StreamJoined to allow more store configs * More convenient TopologyTestDriver construtors * Introduce Kafka-Streams-specific uncaught exception handler * API to start and shut down Streams threads * Improve TimeWindowedDeserializer and TimeWindowedSerde to handle window size * Improve timeouts and retries in Kafka Streams All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.8.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.8.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- 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 128 contributors to this release! 17hao, abc863377, Adem Efe Gencer, Alexander Iskuskov, Alok Nikhil, Anastasia Vela, Andrew Lee, Andrey Bozhko, Andrey Falko, Andy Coates, Andy Wilkinson, Ankit Kumar, APaMio, Arjun Satish, ArunParthiban-ST, A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Attila Sasvari, Benoit Maggi, bertber, bill, Bill Bejeck, Bob Barrett, Boyang Chen, Brajesh Kumar, Bruno Cadonna, Cheng Tan, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, CHUN-HAO TANG, Colin Patrick McCabe, Colin P. Mccabe, Cyrus Vafadari, David Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao, dengziming, Dhruvil Shah, Dima Reznik, Dongjoon Hyun, Dongxu Wang, Emre Hasegeli, feyman2016, fml2, Gardner Vickers, Geordie, Govinda Sakhare, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Gwen Shapira, Hamza Slama, high.lee, huxi, Igor Soarez, Ilya Ganelin, Ismael Juma, Ivan Ponomarev, Ivan Yurchenko, jackyoh, James Cheng, James Yuzawa, Jason Gustafson, Jesse Gorzinski, Jim Galasyn, John Roesler, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, José Armando García Sancio, Julien Chanaud, Julien Jean Paul Sirocchi, Justine Olshan, Kengo Seki, Kowshik Prakasam, leah, Lee Dongjin, Levani Kokhreidze, Lev Zemlyanov, Liju John, Lincong Li, Lucas Bradstreet, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Marco Aurelio Lotz, mathieu, Matthew Wong, Matthias J. Sax, Matthias Merdes, Michael Bingham, Michael G. Noll, Mickael Maison, Montyleo, mowczare, Nikolay, Nikolay Izhikov, Ning Zhang, Nitesh Mor, Okada Haruki, panguncle, parafiend, Patrick Dignan, Prateek Agarwal, Prithvi, Rajini Sivaram, Raman Verma, Ramesh Krishnan M, Randall Hauch, Richard Fussenegger, Rohan, Rohit Deshpande, Ron Dagostino, Samuel Cantero, Sanket Fajage, Scott Hendricks, Shao Yang Hong, ssugar, Stanislav Kozlovski, Stanislav Vodetskyi, tang7526, Thorsten Hake, Tom Bentley, vamossagar12, Viktor Somogyi- Vass, voffcheg109, Walker Carlson, wenbingshen, wycccccc, xakassi, Xavier Léauté, Yilong Chang, zhangyue19921010 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
