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Product description

Automate product release and end-of-life managementApache Kafka is a framework implementation of a software bus using stream-processing. It is an open-source software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka can connect to external systems (for data import/export) via Kafka Connect and provides Kafka Streams, a Java stream processing library. Kafka uses a binary TCP-based protocol that is optimized for efficiency and relies on a "message set" abstraction that naturally groups messages together to reduce the overhead of the network roundtrip.
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Kafka (Apache)
 

Release strategy

Given 3 releases a year and the fact that no one upgrades three times a year, we propose making sure (by testing!) that rolling upgrade can be done from each release in the past year (i.e. last 3 releases) to the latest version. We will also attempt, as a community to do bugfix releases as needed for the last 3 releases.

Properties

Product
Kafka
Vendor
Apache
Latest version
3.4.0
# Releases
20
# Versions
198
# Security affected versions (CVE)
41
Licence MIT
Apache License 2.0
Last verification date
2023-03-15
 

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