Apache Kafka 3.6.1 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.6.1. This is a bugfix release. It contains 30 fixes including upgrades to the ZooKeeper and Netty dependencies. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

See the Upgrading to 3.6.1 from any version 0.8.x through 3.5.x 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: Anna Sophie Blee-Goldman, Arpit Goyal, atu-sharm, Bill Bejeck, Chris Egerton, Colin P. McCabe, David Arthur, David Jacot, Divij Vaidya, Federico Valeri, Greg Harris, Guozhang Wang, Hao Li, hudeqi, iit2009060, Ismael Juma, Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya, Josep Prat, Jotaniya Jeel, Justine Olshan, Kamal Chandraprakash, kumarpritam863, Levani Kokhreidze, Lucas Brutschy, Luke Chen, Manikumar Reddy, Matthias J. Sax, Mayank Shekhar Narula, Mickael Maison, Nick Telford, Philip Nee, Qichao Chu, Rajini Sivaram, Robert Wagner, Sagar Rao, Satish Duggana, Walker Carlson, Xiaobing Fang, Yash Mayya

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