[ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 2.7.1

[Mickael Maison <mi...@apache.org>]

The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
Apache Kafka 2.7.1

This is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from
45 JIRAs, including a few critical bugs.


All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.7.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html


You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.12. and 2.13) from:
https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#2.7.1

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Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform with four core APIs:


** The Producer API allows an application to publish a stream 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 31 contributors to this release!

A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Andy Wilkinson, bill, Bob Barrett, Boyang
Chen, Bruno Cadonna, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, David Jacot,
dengziming, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Ismael Juma, Ivan Yurchenko,
Jason Gustafson, Jim Galasyn, John Roesler, Julien Chanaud, leah, Lee
Dongjin, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Michael G. Noll,
Mickael Maison, Rajini Sivaram, Ramesh Krishnan M, Randall Hauch,
Stanislav Vodetskyi, Walker Carlson, Yilong Chang

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,

Mickael Maison