Thank you, David, for serving as the release manager for 2.8.1. Great work!
And congratulations to the Apache Kafka community! Best regards, Randall On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 2:48 AM David Jacot <da...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 2.8.1 > > Apache Kafka 2.8.1 is a bugfix release and fixes 49 issues since the 2.8.0 > release. Please see the release notes for more information. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.8.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.8.1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 35 contributors to this release! > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Alexander Iskuskov, Andras Katona, Bill Bejeck, > Bruno Cadonna, Chris Egerton, Colin Patrick McCabe, David Arthur, David > Jacot, > Davor Poldrugo, Dejan Stojadinović, Geordie, Guozhang Wang, Ismael Juma, > Jason Gustafson, Jeff Kim, John Gray, John Roesler, Justine Olshan, > Konstantine Karantasis, Lee Dongjin, Luke Chen, Matthias J. Sax, Michael > Carter, > Mickael Maison, Phil Hardwick, Rajini Sivaram, Randall Hauch, Shay Elkin, > Stanislav Vodetskyi, Tom Bentley, vamossagar12, wenbingshen, YiDing-Duke > > 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, > David >
