Thanks for running the release, PoAn! On 2026/06/03 01:28:38 Eric Chang wrote: > Thanks for managing the release PoAn! > > On 2026/06/02 14:11:05 PoAn Yang 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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