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The Apache Kafka community was crazy-busy last month. We released a technical preview of Kafka Streams and then voted on a release plan for Kafka 0.10.0. We accelerated the discussion of few key proposals in order to make the release, rolled out two release candidates, and then decided to put the release on hold in order to get few more changes in.
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