What a milestone! We are happy and proud to announce the Apache Kafka 4.0.0 release! It’s the first release without Zookeeper, and so many other core improvements like the new consumer group rebalance protocol (GA) and Queues for Kafka (EA) to just mention a few… \1

I've just published edition 86 of my Kafka Monthly Digest. It's a big one as it covers Kafka 4.0.0! There are also 2 other releases in progress (4.1.0 and 3.9.1), as well as the usual review of recent KIPs, community releases, and blogs. developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/04/0…

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

Really cool to receive a print copy of the Korean translation!

Most of the #ApacheKafka chatter these days is about KIP-1150 and diskless topics. But the feature you can use in production today is tiered storage. In our new blog post, we have a look at using #Strimzi, #ApacheKafka tiered storage, and NFS: strimzi.io/blog/2025/04/2…

The 88th edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest is out! There's a new release, Kafka 3.9.1, and work on 4.1.0 continues. I also cover some of the recent KIPs, community project releases and blog posts from May. developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/06/0…

If you are interested in/are running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, you should definitively join us tomorrow. StrimziCon is hosting a series of talks on topics (pun intended) such as migrating to KRaft, cluster observability, etc Oh and it's free! #StrimziCon2025

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!

I've just published the 89th edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest! It covers progress on the 4.1.0 and 4.0.1 releases, new KIPs, recent community releases and blog posts. developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/07/0…

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

Paolo Patierno Even more annonying when the question anyway does not contain enough details to be answered 🙄. I once did a talk about how to ask for help: youtu.be/EkjGUNELwlE ... maybe I should submit it for some conference again 🤔

If you had told me 7.5 years ago I'd be publishing 90 Monthly Digests, or even just still work on Kafka all this time, I'd thought you were crazy! But here we are (maybe it's me who's crazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), I just published the 90th edition covering July 2025: developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/08/0…

Did you know? 🚀 #ApacheKafka isn’t just about topics anymore. With the 4.0 release, you can now use queues too! Check out our new blog post by Tina Selenge: "Using Queues for Apache Kafka with #Strimzi" 👉 strimzi.io/blog/2025/08/2…

I've just published the 91st edition of my Kafka Monthly Digest! It covers progress on the 4.1.0 and 4.0.1 releases, as well as new KIPs, community releases and blog posts from August. developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/09/0…

We are happy to announce the Apache Kafka 4.1.0 release! Most exciting, Queues for Kafka enters preview status, and the new “streams” rebalance protocol is available as early access. Thanks a lot to 167 contributors and our RM Mickael Maison! kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_ka…

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