Apache Kafka 4.2.2 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.2.2. 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 4.2.2 from any version 0.8.x through 4.2.1 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 43 contributors: Adam Souquières, Alan Lau, Alieh Saeedi, Alyssa Huang, Andrew Schofield, Apoorv Mittal, Bill Bejeck, Chia-Ping Tsai, Chris Egerton, David Jacot, Dongnuo Lyu, Eswarar Siva, Evan Zhou, Federico Valeri, Gabriella Fu, Gaurav Narula, Gergely Harmadas, Izzy Harker, Kaixuan Li, Ken Huang, Kevin Wu, Kuan-Po Tseng, Lianet Magrans, Lucas Brutschy, Lucy Liu, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mickael Maison, Mingi Cho, Nick Telford, Nilesh Kumar, Omnia Ibrahim, PoAn Yang, Sean Quah, Sepuri Sai Krishna, Shay Elkin, Srinivas Akhil Mallela, TengYao Chi, Truc Nguyen, Uladzislau Blok, Zheguang Zhao, zhiyan-tang