RE: Kafka 4.4.0 formal release date -- Important

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