Apache Kafka 3.6.2 Release Announcement

By Manikumar Reddy O. (@Manikumar) |

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.6.2. This is a bugfix release. It contains 28 fixes. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

See the Upgrading to 3.6.2 from any version 0.8.x through 3.5.x section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.

Summary

This was a community effort, so thank you to everyone who contributed to this release: Akhilesh Chaganti, Andrew Schofield, Anton Liauchuk, Bob Barrett, Bruno Cadonna, Cheng-Kai, Zhang, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, Colin P. McCabe, Colin Patrick McCabe, David Arthur, David Jacot, David Mao, Divij Vaidya, Edoardo Comar, Emma Humber, Gaurav Narula, Greg Harris, hudeqi, Ismael Juma, Jason Gustafson, Jim Galasyn, Joel Hamill, Johnny Hsu, José Armando García Sancio, Justine Olshan, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mayank Shekhar Narula, Mickael Maison, Mike Lloyd, Paolo Patierno, PoAn Yang, Ron Dagostino, Sagar Rao, Stanislav Kozlovski, Walker Carlson, Yash Mayya

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