Well done to the community and David (as RM) for this release! It's a great milestone on the journey to a simpler and better Apache Kafka. For our users and the developers too.
Ismael On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM David Jacot <da...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 4.0.0 > > - This is the first release without Apache Zookeeper > - The Next Generation of the Consumer Rebalance Protocol is Generally > Available > - The Transactions Server-Side Defense (Phase 2) is Generally Available > - Kafka Clients and Kafka Streams require Java 11, while Kafka > Brokers, Connect, and Tools, now require Java 17 > - Old client protocol API versions have been removed > - Queues for Kafka is in Early Access > - Kafka uses log4j2 > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.0.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_400_release_announcement > > You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13) from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.0.0 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 175 contributors to this release! > (Please report an unintended omission) > > A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, abhi-ksolves, Abhijeet Kumar, Abhinav Dixit, > Abhishek Giri, Alieh Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew > Schofield, Anshul Goyal, Ao Li, Apoorv Mittal, Arnav Dadarya, Arpit > Goyal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, bachmanity1, bboyleonp666, Bill > Bejeck, brenden20, Bruno Cadonna, Caio Guedes, Calvin Liu, Chengyan, > Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Chuan Yu, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris > Egerton, Christo Lolov, Christopher L. Shannon, ClarkChen, Clay > Johnson, Colin P. McCabe, Colt McNealy, Danica Fine, Dániel Urbán, > David Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao, David Schlosnagle, Dejan > Stojadinović, devanshikhatsuriya, Dimitar Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, > DL1231, Dmitry Werner, donaldzhu-cc, Dongnuo Lyu, dujian0068, Edoardo > Comar, Eric Chang, Federico Valeri, Frederik Rouleau, GangHuo, > Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Hailey > Ni, Hongten, Hyunsang Han, Ian McDonald, Igor Soarez, Ismael Juma, > Ivan Yurchenko, Jakub Scholz, Jason Gustafson, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, > Jhen-Yung Hsu, Jim Galasyn, João Pedro Fonseca Dantas, John Huang, > JohnHuang, Jonah Hooper, José Armando García Sancio, Josep Prat, Jun > Rao, Justin Lee, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, > KApolinario1120, kartik-3513, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang, kevin-wu24, > Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Krishna Agarwal, Kuan-Po Tseng, > kwonyonghyun, Laxman Ch, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, > Linsiyuan9, Linu Shibu, Liu Zeyu, Logan Zhu, Loïc Greffier, Lucas > Brutschy, Luke Chen, lushilin, Mahsa Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, > mannoopj, Martin Sillence, Mason Chen, Matthias J. Sax, Mehari Beyene, > Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, msureshpro, Murali Basani, > Nancy, Nick Guo, Nick Telford, Oleg Bonar, Oleksandr K., Omnia > Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Patrik Marton, Paul R. Mellor, Peter Lee, > Philip Nee, PoAn Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Ramin Gharib, Ritika Reddy, > Robert Young, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Said Boudjelda, Sanskar Jhajharia, > santhoshct, Sasaki Toru, Satish Duggana, Saxon Chen, Scott Hendricks, > Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Knot, > Steven Xu, stevenbooke, Stig Døssing, Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, > TaiJuWu, tall15421542-lab, TapDang, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas > Thornton, Tim Fox, tkuramoto33, Tom Duckering, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas > Singh, Viktor Somogyi-Vass, Vincent Jiang, wperlichek, xijiu, > Xuan-Zhang Gong, yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yash Mayya, Yung, > yungh, yx9o, Zhengke Zhou, Ziming Deng, 陳昱霖 (Yu-Lin Chen) > > 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 Jacot > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 >
