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It was another productive month in the Apache Kafka community. Many of the KIPs that were under active discussion in the last Log Compaction were implemented, reviewed, and merged into Apache Kafka. Last month’s activities also included a patch release for Kafka 0.9 and the beginning of a plan for the next release.
That’s all for this month! Since the community is far too active for one person to keep track of all the activities, I’d like to thank Ismael Juma for helping to collect the activities and keep track of the status of the many on-going KIPs.
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