Pulsar Community Weekly Update] 2020-12-28 ~ 2021-01-03

[Huanli Meng <hu...@streamnative.io.INVALID>]

Dear Pulsar enthusiast,

This is the Pulsar community weekly update for 2020-12-28 ~ 2021-01-03,
with updates on Pulsar client, broker, Functions, and so on.

This Pulsar community weekly update is also available at
https://streamnative.io/weekly/2021/2021-01/2021-01-04-pulsar-weekly.

*All Pulsar community weekly updates are available at
**https://streamnative.io/weekly/
<https://streamnative.io/weekly/>.*
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Pulsar Highlight
================
Expose the end-to-end encryption interface for the C++ client to make users
use the end-to-end encryption on other clients, such as the Python client
or the Node.js clients.

by [tuteng](https://github.com/tuteng)

*===============*
*Notable Feature================*
- [Pulsar Functions] Support the package command in Pulsar Functions.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/8973 ([zymap](
https://github.com/zymap))

- [Pulsar Functions] Support creating and updating the source with the
package name.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/8988  ([zymap](
https://github.com/zymap))

- [C++] Expose the end-to-end encryption interface.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/9074 ([tuteng](
https://github.com/tuteng))
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*Notable Bug Fix================*
- [Pulsar IO] Fix the error log of the Debezium connector.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/9063 ([yufan022](
https://github.com/yufan022))

- [Placement Policy] Fix the issue that the AutoRecovery does not respect
to the isolation group settings.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/8961  ([zymap](
https://github.com/zymap))

- [C++] Fix the issue that the C++ client does not clean up previous
messages when implementing the `AcknowledgeCumulative` operation.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/8606 ([saosir](
https://github.com/saosir))

- [Broker] Fix the issue that occurs when the master broker wants to
subscribe to a partitioned non-persistent topic with the topic
auto-creation being disabled.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/9107 ([codelipenghui](
https://github.com/codelipenghui))

- Fix the regression in `apply-config-from-env.py`.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/9097 ([codelipenghui](
https://github.com/codelipenghui))

*================Event / News================*- [TGIP] Weekly live stream
about Pulsar and its ecosystem.

  - All video recordings are available at [here](
https://streamnative.io/resource#tgip).

- Pulsar User Survey 2020

  -
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2zjkx2LkIkypCsNYsWmAs96ZDwmey39DhXAvi6EqbJpUNlZWQzRPMlVWNTc1WUcwUE5CWFMyUlI3QS4u

- Pulsar Summit Asia 2020

   -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uB8i4zZXSw&list=PLqRma1oIkcWjHlRb-dzjwYdETkVlyCJOq
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Blog / Article
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- Apache Pulsar vs. Kafka and other data processing technologies -- David
Kjerrumgaard

    -
https://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/post/Apache-Pulsar-vs-Kafka-and-other-data-processing-technologies

- How to implement asynchronous replication in Apache Pulsar -- David
Kjerrumgaard

    -
https://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/post/How-to-implement-asynchronous-replication-in-Apache-Pulsar

*If we miss anything, welcome to reply to this thread, thank you.*



*Cheers,Renkai Ge, Huanli Meng*