Apache Kafka 4.1.1 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.1.1. This is a bugfix release that includes several critical fixes. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

See the Upgrading to 4.1.1 from any version 0.8.x through 4.0.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 32 contributors: Abhinav Dixit, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Bill Bejeck, Calvin Liu, Chia-Ping Tsai, Copilot, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Eduwer Camacaro, Fatih, Genseric Ghiro, Greg Harris, Izzy Harker, Jun Rao, Kevin Wu, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, Lianet Magrans, Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, majialong, Manikumar Reddy, Masahiro Mori, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Nikita Shupletsov, Ritika Reddy, Sean Quah, Shashank, Shivsundar R, Sushant Mahajan