Thanks to Lianet for making this release happen!
> Lianet Magrans <[email protected]> 於 2025年11月14日 晚上9:28 寫道： > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for > Apache Kafka 4.1.1 > > This bug-fix release includes several critical fixes, notably for > Kafka Streams and > Connect, as well as for other components. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_411_release_announcement > > You can download the source and binary release from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 32 contributors to this release! > (Please report an unintended omission) > > Abhinav Dixit, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Bill Bejeck, Calvin > Liu, Chia-Ping Tsai, Copilot, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Eduwer > Camacaro, Fatih, Genseric Ghiro, Greg Harris, Izzy Harker, Jun Rao, > Kevin Wu, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, Lianet Magrans, Lucas Brutschy, > Luke Chen, majialong, Manikumar Reddy, Masahiro Mori, Matthias J. Sax, > Mickael Maison, Nikita Shupletsov, Ritika Reddy, Sean Quah, Shashank, > Shivsundar R, Sushant Mahajan > > > 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, > > Lianet Magrans > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.1
