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The difference between Kafka 4.0 and 3.0 will be awesome: - No ZooKeeper - Tiered Storage - New Rebalance Protocol (848) - EOS support in Connect - State Updater Thread in Streams - Improved Txn Protocol (890) - Custom Stream Task Assignment (924) #apachekafka is on a roll!

We are happy to announce the Apache Kafka 3.7.1 bug-fix release. Thanks to our RM Igor Soarez and to all contributors! For more details, checkout the release notes: apache.org/dist/kafka/3.7…

Apache Kafka 3.8.0 is now available, bringing improvements to KRaft, tiered storage, the new consumer rebalance protocol, and many more things. For details, check out the release blog post: kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_ka… A big "thank you” to 202 contributors and our RM Josep Prat!

Our RM is of course Josep Prat! Sorry for the missed tag!

Please welcome Lianet Magrans as our newest committer! Congrats! We are glad to have you!

Congratulations to our newest PMC member, Josep Prat!

Welcome Jeff Kim! We are happy to have you and congratulations for becoming a committer.

Congratulations to Kamal Chandraprakash for being added as a Kafka committer!

Upgrade time! We just released Apache Kafka 3.8.1! Thanks to all 24 contributors and our RM Josep Prat! For more details checkout out the release blog post: kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_ka…

Hello Apache Kafka 3.9.0! - last release using ZooKeeper - tiered storage is production-ready Plus many more KIPs, improvements, and bug-fixes. For details, check out the release blog post: kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_ka… Thanks to 133 contributors and our RM Colin Patrick McCabe!

The committer family keeps growing! Congrats to Andrew Schofield!

We shipped an early holiday present🎁: Apache Kafka 3.7.2 is out! The release contains a couple of important bug-fixes, especially for clients (KIP-714) and Kafka Streams. For details check out apache.org/dist/kafka/3.7… Happy holidays everyone!

Thrilled to announce that we've achieved a staggering 3 Tb/s outbound bandwidth from our #kafka cluster on our on-premise infrastructure! 🚀This is a monumental leap in data streaming performance. Kudo to the Apache Kafka team, the technology is simply amazing! Onward and upward!

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Please join us welcoming TengYao Chi and Apoorv Mittal as the latest committers for Apache Kafka. Congrats to both of you!

New Committer and PMC members! Let’s welcome José Armando García Sancio (PMC) and Omnia Ibrahim (@[email protected]) (committer) to the party! Congrats to both of you!

Congratulations to PoAn Yang for becoming a committer and to Lucas Brutschy for being added to the PMC!