Sep 2, 2025 · Kafka 4.0.0 includes a significant number of new features and fixes. For more information, please read our blog post, the detailed Upgrade Notes and the Release Notes.

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and …

In this quickstart we'll see how to run Kafka Connect with simple connectors that import data from a file to a Kafka topic and export data from a Kafka topic to a file.

Below is some very simple examples of using Kafka for sending messages, more complete examples can be found in the Kafka source code in the examples/ directory.

The Connector API allows building and running reusable producers or consumers that connect Kafka topics to existing applications or data systems. For example, a connector to a relational …

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Starting in 0.10.0.0, a light-weight but powerful stream processing library called Kafka Streams is available in Apache Kafka to perform such data processing as described above. Apart from …

You can check it out like this: git clone https://github.com/apache/kafka.git kafka Information on contributing patches can be found here. Official releases are available here. The source code …

With the release of Kafka 4.0, significant changes have been introduced that impact compatibility across various components. To assist users in planning upgrades and ensuring seamless …

Sep 2, 2025 · Kafka 4.0.0 includes a significant number of new features and fixes. For more information, please read our blog post, the detailed Upgrade Notes and the Release Notes.