Congratulations to the community on an exciting release! Special thanks to Satish for driving the release and KIP-405. :)
Ismael On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:39 PM Satish Duggana <sati...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 3.6.0 > > This is a minor release and it includes fixes and improvements from 238 > JIRAs. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.6.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12 and Scala 2.13) > from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#3.6.0 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 for the following 139 contributors to this release! > (Please report an unintended omission) > > This was a community effort, so thank you to everyone who contributed > to this release, including all our users and our 139 contributors: > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Aaron Ai, Abhijeet Kumar, aindriu-aiven, > Akhilesh Chaganti, Alexandre Dupriez, Alexandre Garnier, Alok > Thatikunta, Alyssa Huang, Aman Singh, Andras Katona, Andrew Schofield, > Andrew Grant, Aneel Kumar, Anton Agestam, Artem Livshits, atu-sharm, > bachmanity1, Bill Bejeck, Bo Gao, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Chaitanya > Mukka, Chase Thomas, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, > Christo Lolov, Clay Johnson, Colin P. McCabe, Colt McNealy, d00791190, > Damon Xie, Danica Fine, Daniel Scanteianu, Daniel Urban, David Arthur, > David Jacot, David Mao, dengziming, Deqi Hu, Dimitar Dimitrov, Divij > Vaidya, DL1231, Dániel Urbán, Erik van Oosten, ezio, Farooq Qaiser, > Federico Valeri, flashmouse, Florin Akermann, Gabriel Oliveira, > Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, GeunJae Jeon, Greg Harris, Guozhang > Wang, Hailey Ni, Hao Li, Hector Geraldino, hudeqi, hzh0425, Iblis Lin, > iit2009060, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko, James Shaw, Jason Gustafson, > Jeff Kim, Jim Galasyn, John Roesler, Joobi S B, Jorge Esteban Quilcate > Otoya, Josep Prat, Joseph (Ting-Chou) Lin, José Armando García Sancio, > Jun Rao, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Keith Wall, Kirk True, > Lianet Magrans, LinShunKang, Liu Zeyu, lixy, Lucas Bradstreet, Lucas > Brutschy, Lucent-Wong, Lucia Cerchie, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, > Manyanda Chitimbo, Maros Orsak, Matthew de Detrich, Matthias J. Sax, > maulin-vasavada, Max Riedel, Mehari Beyene, Michal Cabak (@miccab), > Mickael Maison, Milind Mantri, minjian.cai, mojh7, Nikolay, Okada > Haruki, Omnia G H Ibrahim, Owen Leung, Philip Nee, prasanthV, Proven > Provenzano, Purshotam Chauhan, Qichao Chu, Rajini Sivaram, Randall > Hauch, Renaldo Baur Filho, Ritika Reddy, Rittika Adhikari, Rohan, Ron > Dagostino, Sagar Rao, Said Boudjelda, Sambhav Jain, Satish Duggana, > sciclon2, Shekhar Rajak, Sungyun Hur, Sushant Mahajan, Tanay > Karmarkar, tison, Tom Bentley, vamossagar12, Victoria Xia, Vincent > Jiang, vveicc, Walker Carlson, Yash Mayya, Yi-Sheng Lien, Ziming Deng, > 蓝士钦 > > 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, > Satish Duggana >
