The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.4.0.
This is a major release and it includes fixes and improvements from over 120 JIRAs. All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.4.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/entry/what-s-new-in-apache9 You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.11 and Scala 2.12) from: https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.4.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs: ** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream of 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 to the following 117 contributors to this release! A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Ahmed Sobeh, Akhilesh C, Akhilesh Chaganti, Alan Sheinberg, aLeX, Alex Sorokoumov, Alexandre Garnier, Alyssa Huang, Andras Katona, Andrew Borley, Andrew Dean, andymg3, Artem Livshits, Ashmeet Lamba, Badai Aqrandista, Bill Bejeck, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Chase Thomas, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Christo Lolov, Christopher L. Shannon, Colin P. McCabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, Dalibor Plavcic, Dan Stelljes, Daniel Fonai, David Arthur, David Jacot, David Karlsson, David Mao, dengziming, Derek Troy-West, Divij Vaidya, Edoardo Comar, Elkhan Eminov, Eugene Tolbakov, Federico Valeri, Francesco Nigro, FUNKYE, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Hao Li, Himani Arora, Huilin Shi, Igor Soarez, Ismael Juma, James Hughes, Janik Dotzel, Jason Gustafson, Jeff Kim, Jim Galasyn, JK-Wang, Joel Hamill, John Roesler, Jonathan Albrecht, Jordan Bull, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, José Armando García Sancio, Justine Olshan, K8sCat, Kirk True, Kvicii, Levani Kokhreidze, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson, LinShunKang, liuzc9, liuzhuang2017, Lucas Brutschy, Lucia Cerchie, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthew de Detrich, Matthew Stidham, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Nandini Anagondi, Nick Telford, nicolasguyomar, Niket, Niket Goel, Nikolay, Okada Haruki, Oliver Eikemeier, Omnia G H Ibrahim, Orsák Maroš, Patrik Marton, Peter Nied, Philip Nee, Philipp Trulson, Pratim SC, Proven Provenzano, Purshotam Chauhan, Rajini Sivaram, Ramesh, Rens Groothuijsen, RivenSun, Rohan, Ron Dagostino, runom, Sanjana Kaundinya, Satish Duggana, Shawn, Shay Lin, Shenglong Zhang, srishti-saraswat, Stanislav Vodetskyi, Sushant Mahajan, Tom Bentley, vamossagar12, venkatteki, Vicky Papavasileiou, Walker Carlson, Yash Mayya, zou shengfu, 行路难行路 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 Arthur
