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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
Apache Kafka 4.1.0
The release brings many new features and improvements:
- Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
- Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
- Queue are now in preview access
- New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
- Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
- Improved metadata replication
All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
You can download the source and binary release from:
https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
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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 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 167 contributors to this release!
(Please report an unintended omission)
陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh
Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li,
Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck,
Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai,
ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt
McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur,
David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng,
Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu
Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate
Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang,
Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick
Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang,
Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker,
Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas
Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau
Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong,
yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang,
Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
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
Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Satish Duggana <sa...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this release!! Thanks
Mickael for running the release!
On Tue, 9 Sept 2025 at 07:55, Luke Chen <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for running this release!
> Great work!
>
> Luke
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM Lucas Brutschy
> <lb...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Mickael, great job
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM Kamal Chandraprakash
> > <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Mickael for running the release!
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <ch...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward!
> > > >
> > > > > Justine Olshan <jo...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道：
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release!
> > > > >
> > > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <
> > apoorvmittal10@gmail.com>
> > > > >> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2
> > September:
> > > > >> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Regards,
> > > > >> Apoorv Mittal
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mimaison@apache.org
> > >
> > > > >> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> > > > >>> Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> The release brings many new features and improvements:
> > > > >>> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> > > > >>> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> > > > >>> - Queue are now in preview access
> > > > >>> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> > > > >>> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> > > > >>> - Improved metadata replication
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release
> > notes:
> > > > >>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog
> > post:
> > > > >>>
> > https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> You can download the source and binary release from:
> > > > >>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>
> > > >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> 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 167 contributors to this release!
> > > > >>> (Please report an unintended omission)
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert,
> > Alieh
> > > > >>> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao
> > Li,
> > > > >>> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill
> > Bejeck,
> > > > >>> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping
> > Tsai,
> > > > >>> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
> > > > >>> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe,
> > Colt
> > > > >>> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David
> > Arthur,
> > > > >>> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
> > > > >>> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
> > > > >>> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred
> > Zheng,
> > > > >>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
> > > > >>> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
> > > > >>> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth,
> > Janindu
> > > > >>> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
> > > > >>> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
> > > > >>> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban
> > Quilcate
> > > > >>> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
> > > > >>> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken
> > Huang,
> > > > >>> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
> > > > >>> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
> > > > >>> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
> > > > >>> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
> > > > >>> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy,
> > Nick
> > > > >>> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
> > > > >>> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn
> > Yang,
> > > > >>> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
> > > > >>> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
> > > > >>> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
> > > > >>> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven
> > Schlansker,
> > > > >>> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi,
> > Thomas
> > > > >>> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996,
> > Uladzislau
> > > > >>> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
> > > > >>> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang
> > Gong,
> > > > >>> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi
> > Pang,
> > > > >>> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> 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
> > > > >>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>
> > > >
> >
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Luke Chen <sh...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for running this release!
Great work!
Luke
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM Lucas Brutschy
<lb...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote:
> Thanks Mickael, great job
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM Kamal Chandraprakash
> <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Mickael for running the release!
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <ch...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward!
> > >
> > > > Justine Olshan <jo...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道：
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release!
> > > >
> > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <
> apoorvmittal10@gmail.com>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
> > > >>
> > > >> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2
> September:
> > > >> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards,
> > > >> Apoorv Mittal
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mimaison@apache.org
> >
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> > > >>> Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The release brings many new features and improvements:
> > > >>> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> > > >>> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> > > >>> - Queue are now in preview access
> > > >>> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> > > >>> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> > > >>> - Improved metadata replication
> > > >>>
> > > >>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release
> notes:
> > > >>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> > > >>>
> > > >>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog
> post:
> > > >>>
> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
> > > >>>
> > > >>> You can download the source and binary release from:
> > > >>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >>>
> > > >>> 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 167 contributors to this release!
> > > >>> (Please report an unintended omission)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert,
> Alieh
> > > >>> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao
> Li,
> > > >>> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill
> Bejeck,
> > > >>> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping
> Tsai,
> > > >>> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
> > > >>> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe,
> Colt
> > > >>> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David
> Arthur,
> > > >>> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
> > > >>> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
> > > >>> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred
> Zheng,
> > > >>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
> > > >>> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
> > > >>> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth,
> Janindu
> > > >>> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
> > > >>> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
> > > >>> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban
> Quilcate
> > > >>> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
> > > >>> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken
> Huang,
> > > >>> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
> > > >>> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
> > > >>> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
> > > >>> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
> > > >>> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy,
> Nick
> > > >>> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
> > > >>> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn
> Yang,
> > > >>> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
> > > >>> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
> > > >>> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
> > > >>> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven
> Schlansker,
> > > >>> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi,
> Thomas
> > > >>> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996,
> Uladzislau
> > > >>> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
> > > >>> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang
> Gong,
> > > >>> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi
> Pang,
> > > >>> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
> > > >>>
> > > >>> 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
> > > >>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > >
>
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Lucas Brutschy <lb...@confluent.io.INVALID>.
Thanks Mickael, great job
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM Kamal Chandraprakash
<ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Mickael for running the release!
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward!
> >
> > > Justine Olshan <jo...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道：
> > >
> > > Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release!
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <ap...@gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
> > >>
> > >> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September:
> > >> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Apoorv Mittal
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mi...@apache.org>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> > >>> Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> > >>>
> > >>> The release brings many new features and improvements:
> > >>> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> > >>> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> > >>> - Queue are now in preview access
> > >>> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> > >>> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> > >>> - Improved metadata replication
> > >>>
> > >>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
> > >>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> > >>>
> > >>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
> > >>> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
> > >>>
> > >>> You can download the source and binary release from:
> > >>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>>
> > >>> 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 167 contributors to this release!
> > >>> (Please report an unintended omission)
> > >>>
> > >>> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh
> > >>> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li,
> > >>> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck,
> > >>> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai,
> > >>> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
> > >>> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt
> > >>> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur,
> > >>> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
> > >>> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
> > >>> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng,
> > >>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
> > >>> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
> > >>> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu
> > >>> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
> > >>> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
> > >>> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate
> > >>> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
> > >>> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang,
> > >>> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
> > >>> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
> > >>> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
> > >>> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
> > >>> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick
> > >>> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
> > >>> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang,
> > >>> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
> > >>> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
> > >>> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
> > >>> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker,
> > >>> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas
> > >>> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau
> > >>> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
> > >>> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong,
> > >>> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang,
> > >>> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
> > >>>
> > >>> 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
> > >>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Kamal Chandraprakash <ka...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Mickael for running the release!
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward!
>
> > Justine Olshan <jo...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道：
> >
> > Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release!
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <ap...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
> >>
> >> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September:
> >> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Apoorv Mittal
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mi...@apache.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> >>> Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> >>>
> >>> The release brings many new features and improvements:
> >>> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> >>> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> >>> - Queue are now in preview access
> >>> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> >>> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> >>> - Improved metadata replication
> >>>
> >>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
> >>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> >>>
> >>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
> >>> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
> >>>
> >>> You can download the source and binary release from:
> >>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> 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 167 contributors to this release!
> >>> (Please report an unintended omission)
> >>>
> >>> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh
> >>> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li,
> >>> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck,
> >>> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai,
> >>> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
> >>> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt
> >>> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur,
> >>> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
> >>> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
> >>> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng,
> >>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
> >>> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
> >>> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu
> >>> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
> >>> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
> >>> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate
> >>> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
> >>> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang,
> >>> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
> >>> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
> >>> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
> >>> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
> >>> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick
> >>> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
> >>> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang,
> >>> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
> >>> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
> >>> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
> >>> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker,
> >>> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas
> >>> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau
> >>> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
> >>> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong,
> >>> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang,
> >>> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> >>>
> >>
>
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Chia-Ping Tsai <ch...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Mickael! You lead Kafka to take another step forward!
> Justine Olshan <jo...@confluent.io.invalid> 於 2025年9月5日 凌晨2:10 寫道：
>
> Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release!
>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <ap...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
>>
>> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September:
>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Apoorv Mittal
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mi...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
>>> Apache Kafka 4.1.0
>>>
>>> The release brings many new features and improvements:
>>> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
>>> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
>>> - Queue are now in preview access
>>> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
>>> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
>>> - Improved metadata replication
>>>
>>> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
>>> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>>>
>>> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
>>> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
>>>
>>> You can download the source and binary release from:
>>> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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 167 contributors to this release!
>>> (Please report an unintended omission)
>>>
>>> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh
>>> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li,
>>> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck,
>>> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai,
>>> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
>>> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt
>>> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur,
>>> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
>>> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
>>> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng,
>>> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
>>> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
>>> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu
>>> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
>>> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
>>> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate
>>> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
>>> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang,
>>> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
>>> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
>>> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
>>> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
>>> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick
>>> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
>>> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang,
>>> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
>>> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
>>> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
>>> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker,
>>> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas
>>> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau
>>> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
>>> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong,
>>> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang,
>>> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
>>>
>>> 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
>>> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
>>>
>>
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Justine Olshan <jo...@confluent.io.INVALID>.
Thanks Mickael! And congratulations to everyone on the release!
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM Apoorv Mittal <ap...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
>
> Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September:
> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
>
> Regards,
> Apoorv Mittal
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mi...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> > Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> >
> > The release brings many new features and improvements:
> > - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> > - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> > - Queue are now in preview access
> > - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> > - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> > - Improved metadata replication
> >
> > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
> > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
> >
> > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
> > https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
> >
> > You can download the source and binary release from:
> > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
> >
> >
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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 167 contributors to this release!
> > (Please report an unintended omission)
> >
> > 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh
> > Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li,
> > Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck,
> > Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai,
> > ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
> > Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt
> > McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur,
> > David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
> > Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
> > Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng,
> > Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
> > grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
> > hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu
> > Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
> > Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
> > Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate
> > Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
> > Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang,
> > Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
> > leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
> > GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
> > Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
> > Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick
> > Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
> > Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang,
> > Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
> > Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
> > Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
> > Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker,
> > Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas
> > Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau
> > Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
> > Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong,
> > yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang,
> > Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
> >
> > 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
> > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
> >
>
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Posted by Apoorv Mittal <ap...@gmail.com>.
Great news! Thanks Mickael for running the release.
Minor thing, the release page mentions the release date as 2 September:
https://kafka.apache.org/downloads. Should it be 4 September?
Regards,
Apoorv Mittal
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Mickael Maison <mi...@apache.org> wrote:
> The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
> Apache Kafka 4.1.0
>
> The release brings many new features and improvements:
> - Mechanism for plugin to register metrics
> - Allow running multiple versions of connector plugins
> - Queue are now in preview access
> - New Streams rebalance protocol in early access
> - Support for OAuth jwt-bearer grant type
> - Improved metadata replication
>
> All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
> https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.1.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>
> An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
> https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_410_release_announcement
>
> You can download the source and binary release from:
> https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.1.0
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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 167 contributors to this release!
> (Please report an unintended omission)
>
> 陳昱霖(Yu-Lin Chen), A. Sophie Blee-Goldman, Abhinav Dixit, Albert, Alieh
> Saeedi, Almog Gavra, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Ao Li,
> Apoorv Mittal, Artem Livshits, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck,
> Bolin Lin, Bruno Cadonna, Calvin Liu, Cheryl Simmons, Chia-Ping Tsai,
> ChickenchickenLove, Chih-Yuan Chien, Chirag Wadhwa, Chris Flood,
> Christo Lolov, ClarkChen, Clay Johnson, co63oc, Colin P. McCabe, Colt
> McNealy, Damien Gasparina, Dániel Urbán, Dave Troiano, David Arthur,
> David Jacot, David Mao, Dejan Stojadinović, dengziming, Dimitar
> Dimitrov, Divij Vaidya, DL1231, Dmitry Werner, Dongnuo Lyu, Edoardo
> Comar, fangxiaobing, Federico Valeri, Florian Hussonnois, Fred Zheng,
> Gantigmaa Selenge, Gaurav Narula, Gerard Klijs-Nefkens, Goooler,
> grace, Greg Harris, Guang, Guozhang Wang, Gyeongwon, Do, Hailey Ni,
> hgh1472, Hong-Yi Chen, Iamoshione, Ismael Juma, Istvan Toth, Janindu
> Pathirana, Jared Harley, Jason Taylor, Jeff Kim, Jhen-Yung Hsu,
> Ji-Seung Ryu, jimmy, Jimmy Wang, Jing-Jia Hung, Joao Pedro Fonseca
> Dantas, John Huang, John Roesler, Jonah Hooper, Jorge Esteban Quilcate
> Otoya, Josep Prat, José Armando García Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine
> Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Karsten Spang, Kaushik Raina, Ken Huang,
> Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Kondrat Bertalan, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding,
> leaf-soba, Liam Miller-Cushon, Lianet Magrans, Logan Zhu, Loïc
> GREFFIER, Lorcan, Lucas Brutschy, lucliu1108, Luke Chen, Mahsa
> Seifikar, Manikumar Reddy, Manoj, Martin Sillence, Matthias J. Sax,
> Mehari Beyene, Mickael Maison, Milly, Ming-Yen Chung, mingdaoy, Nick
> Guo, Nick Telford, NICOLAS GUYOMAR, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki,
> Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang, Peter Lee, Piotr P. Karwasz, PoAn Yang,
> Pramithas Dhakal, qingbozhang, Rajini Sivaram, Rich Chen, Ritika
> Reddy, Rohan, S.Y. Wang, Sanskar Jhajharia, santhoshct, Satish
> Duggana, Sean Quah, Sebastien Viale, Shaan, Shahbaz Aamir, ShihYuan
> Lin, Shivsundar R, snehashisp, Stanislav Kozlovski, Steven Schlansker,
> Sushant Mahajan, Swikar Patel, TaiJuWu, Ted Yan, TengYao Chi, Thomas
> Gebert, Thomas Thornton, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), u0184996, Uladzislau
> Blok, Vadym Zhytkevych, Vedarth Sharma, Vikas Singh, Viktor
> Somogyi-Vass, Vincent PÉRICART, Xiaobing Fang, xijiu, Xuan-Zhang Gong,
> yangjf2019, Yaroslav Kutsela, Yu-Syuan Jheng, YuChia Ma, Yunchi Pang,
> Yung, YunKui Lu, yx9o, Zachary Hamilton, Zhihong Yu
>
> 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
> Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
>