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Kafka 4.2.0: share groups (queues, KIP-932) are production-ready, and the new Streams rebalance protocol has moved out of preview

38 KIPs. Share groups (native queues on top of topics, KIP-932) are production-ready; the new Kafka Streams rebalance protocol (KIP-848) is production-ready too. DLQ support has been added in Streams exception handlers (KIP-1034), along with Java 25 support.

ESB platforms (MuleSoft, Talend) have had built-in queue semantics and DLQ for decades; Kafka as a top-level queue over topics (share groups) reached production only in 4.2.0 (2026). MuleSoft →DLQ and error routing have been standard ESB features since the beginning; Kafka Streams only received DLQ support in exception handlers (KIP-1034) in this release. Talend ESB →

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