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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.2.1

Hi, Thanks for announcement. Are these changes available in 4.3.0 We are setting up new cluster version 4.3.0. Dont want to miss these bug fixes. Regards, Sunil. On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 at 7:41 PM, PoAn Yang <payang@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache > Kafka 4.2.1 > > This bug-fix release includes several critical fixes as documented in the > release notes. > > All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes: > https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.2.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post: > https://kafka.apache.org/blog > > You can download the source and binary release from: > https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.2.1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 45 contributors to this release! (Please > report an unintended omission) > > Abhinav Dixit, Alieh Saeedi, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Artem > Livshits, averemee-si, Bolin Lin, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chia-Yi Chiu, Chirag > Wadhwa, Christo, Christo Lolov, Daeho Kwon, David Jacot, Ding, Edoardo > Comar, Federico Valeri, Giuseppe Lillo, Hector Geraldino, José Armando > García Sancio, Josep Prat, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, Kirk True, Lianet Magrans, > Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, majialong, Maros Orsak, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael > Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Murali Basani, Nikita Shupletsov, Nilesh Kumar, > Parker Chang, Philippus Baalman, PoAn Yang, Ritika Reddy, Shivsundar R, > sstremler, Sushant Mahajan, TaiJuWu, Tirth, zhiyan-tang > > 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, > > PoAn > Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.2.1 >

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