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As an open source project, we don't have committed release dates. The page literally says "no earlier than": > meaning we expect to release no earlier than September 9 2026 The AK 4.4.0 release is in code freeze, and a first RC was cut. But some blocker bugs were found, and need to be fixed before the next RC can be prepared. If you want to monitor the progress more closely, you can follow the dev mailing list (or the corresponding email thread on the archive in case you don't want to subscribe). At this point, I would think we need _at least_ two more weeks... -Matthias On 9/8/26 9:52 PM, Mayank Maheshwari M via users wrote: > Hi Kafka Team, > > Appreciate your response to the email below. > > We have a release planned for the end of September and are planning to include this Kafka version with the vulnerability fixes in the release. > > //Mayank > > From: Vivek Agarwal B <vivek.b.agarwal@er...

There is no better date than given on the wiki page. As an open source project, we don't have committed release dates. The page literally says "no earlier than": > meaning we expect to release no earlier than September 9 2026 The AK 4.4.0 release is in code freeze, and a first RC was cut. But some blocker bugs were found, and need to be fixed before the next RC can be prepared. If you want to monitor the progress more closely, you can follow the dev mailing list (or the corresponding email thread on the archive in case you don't want to subscribe). At this point, I would think we need _at least_ two more weeks... -Matthias On 9/8/26 10:20 PM, Apoorva Maheshwari via users wrote: > Hello Team, > > The Kafka 4.4.0 is not yet released. Can you please give confirmation on the Kafka release date? > > As per Kafka's plan 9th September is the probable release date. > > Release Plan 4.4.0 - Apache Kafka - ...

Hi Kafka Team, Appreciate your response to the email below. We have a release planned for the end of September and are planning to include this Kafka version with the vulnerability fixes in the release. //Mayank From: Vivek Agarwal B <vivek.b.agarwal@ericsson.com> Sent: 08 September 2026 09:16 AM To: users@kafka.apache.org Cc: Ashish Verma V <ashish.v.verma@ericsson.com>; Mayank Maheshwari M <mayank.m.maheshwari@ericsson.com> Subject: Kafka 4.4.0 formal release date Hi, As per Release Plan 4.4.0 - Apache Kafka - Apache Software Foundation<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/KAFKA/pages/429064575/Release+Plan+4.4.0>, the formal release for Kafka 4.4.0 is planned for 9th Sep. Could you please confirm that the release date remains unchanged and that there are no updates to the current schedule? Regards Vivek

Hello Team, The Kafka 4.4.0 is not yet released. Can you please give confirmation on the Kafka release date? As per Kafka's plan 9th September is the probable release date. Release Plan 4.4.0 - Apache Kafka - Apache Software Foundation<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/KAFKA/pages/429064575/Release+Plan+4.4.0> Regards, Apoorva Maheshwari

Hi, As per Release Plan 4.4.0 - Apache Kafka - Apache Software Foundation<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/KAFKA/pages/429064575/Release+Plan+4.4.0>, the formal release for Kafka 4.4.0 is planned for 9th Sep. Could you please confirm that the release date remains unchanged and that there are no updates to the current schedule? Regards Vivek

Hi, Our security scan tools have detected following neo4j related vulnerabilities for below library present in kafka 4.3.0 /libs/activation-1.1.1.jar CVEs are - CVE-2021-34371 CVE-2026-1524 CVE-2026-1497 CVE-2026-1337 CVE-2026-1471 Please confirm if kafka is impacted due to this vulnerabilities. If yes, what is mitigation plan. Regards Vivek

I haven't thought through this, but I'd be interested in seeing how this would affect windows that use Beam's KafkaIO withLogAppendTime (which assume LogAppendTime is monotonic afaik). It makes me wonder if that works correctly today. -Jon > On Sep 6, 2026, at 11:17 AM, Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7712@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Alexander > > It's interesting and worth mulling it over. Would you mind opening a jira and KIP to propose this change? > > Best, > Chia-Ping > > On 2026/08/18 08:34:09 Alexander Neubeck wrote: >> Hi Kafka developers, >> >> KIP-32 describes LogAppendTime as monotonically increasing. However, the current implementation stamps records using the active leader’s local clock. >> >> After a leader election, the new leader’s clock may be behind the previous leader’s clock. In that case, newly appended records can receive a lower LogAppendTime than preceding records in th...