Congrats!!! Thanks David for the release and big thanks to all contributors!!
Best regards Dave Canton On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 09:14, andreasvdber...@avathar.be < andreasvdber...@avathar.be> wrote: > Well done! I’m looking forward to learning what’s changed. > > On 19 Mar 2025, at 9:03 AM, Satish Duggana <satish.dugg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Amazing release!! Thanks to all the contributors, and to David(as RM) > for running the release. > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 21:13, 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 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "kafka-clients" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to kafka-clients+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kafka-clients/CAA05fTniHNqwoz3hMTWooZu1DbwgaWjwArLjXDHkzRb%2BsCawhg%40mail.gmail.com > . > >
