Apache Kafka 4.0.1 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.0.1. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

See the Upgrading to 4.0.1 from any version 0.8.x through 3.9.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, including all our users and our 53 contributors: 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, 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