We are constantly adding new committers. It’s very important to ensure project health.

Sounds interesting? Checkout “How to become and committer” on the webpage as a first step: kafka.apache.org/contributing.h…

And let us know if you have questions. We are happy help.

The committer pool keeps growing!

Please welcome Igor Soarez! Congrats Igor. We are happy to have you!

We are happy to share, that we invited Greg Harris to join the Apache Kafka PMC.

Congratulations Greg!

I feel honored that books (note the plural) are written about me. 🤗

Do you enjoy upgrading your Kafka?

If yes, we have a gift for you: Bug-fix release 3.6.2 landed!

If no, just get it over with anyway. 28 Jiras got addressed so it’s worth it.

Thanks to all 40 contributors and our RM Manikumar Reddy!

Details 👉 downloads.apache.org/kafka/3.6.2/RE…

Please join us in welcoming our latest committer, Christo Lolov!

Congrats! We are glad to have you.

We are pleased to announce the Apache Kafka 3.7.0 release.

The release includes new features, fixes, and improvements from 296 JIRAs.

A big “thank you” to all 146 contributors and our RM Stanislav Kozlovski!

For details check out the release blog post: kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_ka…

Let’s start the new year with a blast and join us to welcome Divij Vaidya as our latest PMC member! Congrats!

We are happy to also announce the Apache Kafka 3.5.2 bug-fix release.

Thanks to 31 contributors and our release manager Luke Chen!

For full details, check out the release notes: apache.org/dist/kafka/3.5…

We are happy to announce the Apache Kafka 3.6.1 bug-fix release, closing 30 tickets.

Thanks to 39 contributors and our release manager Mickael Maison!

For full details, check out the release notes: apache.org/dist/kafka/3.6…

What a day! KIP-1000 was proposed. Joins us to celebrate this incredible milestone.

We want to thank all contributors and users, who made this possible!

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/dis…

Please welcome Satish Duggana as our latest PMC member!

Congratulations Satish!

#KafkaSummit is coming to London and Bangalore in 2024.

CfP for both are open (London until Nov/27, Bangalore until Jan/10), so you can submit your talks now!

Hope to see you there!

kafka-summit.org

Announcing the Apache Kafka 3.6.0 release, driven by our RM Satish Duggana and 139 contributors!

- Tiered Storage (Early Access)
- migrate clusters from ZK to KRaft with no downtime

For details, check out the blog post kafka.apache.org/blog and release notes
apache.org/dist/kafka/3.6…

Queue semantics are coming to Apache Kafka (KIP-932) and in fact there are many advantages to building queues on top of logs rather than opting for a more queue-native design. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/10/2…

Please welcome Justine Olshan as our newest PMC member!

Congrats! We are glad to have you!

Queues for Kafka (KIP-932), my biggest ask for Apache Kafka since joining Confluent. Really excited about this one. It's not just queue semantics, but queues which can do replay.

Congratulations to our two newest committers, Lucas Brutschy (Lucas Brutschy) and Yash Mayya (github.com/yashmayya)!

The 4 key reasons Kafka scales to insane throughput:

- immutability (append-only)
- active-passive model (single leader)
- sharding (partitioning)
- distributed system (horizontal scaling)

1. The two-phase commit proposal for Apache Kafka (KIP-939) is pretty interesting. Quick thread on why it matters. cwiki.apache.org/confluence/dis…