Apache Kafka News

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Apache Kafka
Kafka 4.2.0: Queues for Kafka production-ready, with unified CLI arguments.

38 KIPs. KIP-932 (share groups/queues) has reached production-ready status. KIP-1147 unified CLI utility arguments (--bootstrap-server, --command-config) instead of the inconsistent legacy flags. KIP-1188 added an Allowlist policy for client configuration overrides in connectors, closing a vulnerability.

Queues and routing have been mature native features of Talend ESB for years; in Kafka, queues (share groups) became production-ready only in 4.2, while previously it offered only the pub/sub log model. Talend ESB →
Apache Kafka
Kafka 4.1.0: Queues for Kafka in preview, with a new Streams rebalance protocol.

KIP-932 (Queues for Kafka, share groups) entered preview and is not production-ready. KIP-1071 added the Streams Rebalance Protocol based on the new consumer group protocol (KIP-848), available through early access. KIP-877 gave plugins and connectors a unified metrics registration mechanism.

Point-to-point queues have been a native MuleSoft feature from the start; in Kafka, they are an add-on (share groups) over the pub/sub log model, introduced only in 4.1 and still in preview. MuleSoft →

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