[ANNOUNCE] Apache Kafka 4.0.1

[Christo Lolov]

The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for
Apache Kafka 4.0.1

This bug-fix has over 40 improvements since 4.0.0!

All of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes:
https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/4.0.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html


An overview of the release can be found in our announcement blog post:
https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_401_release_announcement

You can download the source and binary release (Scala 2.13) from:
https://kafka.apache.org/downloads#4.0.1

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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 53 contributors to this release!
(Please report an unintended omission)

Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Andy Li, Anna Sophie Blee-Goldman,
Apoorv Mittal, Ayoub Omari, Azhar Ahmed, Bill Bejeck, Calvin Liu,
Chia-Ping Tsai, ChickenchickenLove, Christo Lolov, Clemens Hutter,
Colin Patrick McCabe, David Arthur, David Jacot, Dmitry Werner,
Dongnuo Lyu, Florian Hussonnois, Gaurav Narula, Hong-Yi Chen, Ismael
Juma, Jared Harley, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, José Armando García
Sancio, Jun Rao, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, Kaushik Raina,
Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, Logan Zhu, Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen,
Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung,
mingdaoy, nilmadhab mondal, Okada Haruki, Omnia Ibrahim, Parker Chang,
PoAn Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Ritika Reddy, Sean Quah, Shaan, Dongnuo
Lyu, Shashank, TengYao Chi, Tsung-Han Ho (Miles Ho), Vincent PÉRICART,
Xuan-Zhang Gong

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,

Christo Lolov
Release Manager for Apache Kafka 4.0.1