Apache Kafka 4.3.1 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.3.1. This is a bugfix release that includes several critical fixes, most notably a fix for a Kafka Streams RocksDB native memory leak. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

See the Upgrading to 4.3.1 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 23 contributors: Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Bill Bejeck, Chia-Ping Tsai, ChickenchickenLove, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Evan Zhou, gabriellafu, Ken Huang, LeiXiaoGao, Lianet Magrans, Lucas Brutschy, MarkLee131, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Murali Basani, Nick Telford, nileshkumar3, PoAn Yang, Sean Quah, Shekhar Prasad Rajak, Uladzislau Blok