Apache Kafka 4.0.2 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.0.2. 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 4.0.2 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: Alieh Saeedi, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Arpit Goyal, Bill Bejeck, Chia-Ping Tsai, Christo Lolov, David Arthur, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Donny Nadolny, Eric Chang, Erik Anderson, Fatih, Gaurav Narula, Genseric Ghiro, Harish Vishwanath, Ilyas Toumlilt, Izzy Harker, Janindu Pathirana, Jian, jimmy, Jun Rao, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lan Ding, Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, majialong, Manikumar Reddy, Masahiro Mori, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Ming-Yen Chung, Nikita Shupletsov, PoAn Yang, Rajini Sivaram, Ritika Reddy, Sean Quah, Shashank, Sushant Mahajan, Viktor Somogyi-Vass