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Apache Kafka: security advisories, deprecations and releases
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Releases 6
- INFO NEW THIS WEEK AWS What's New · 2 Nov 2026
AWS Lambda adds queue mode for self-managed Kafka event sources
Lambda now supports share groups (Kafka 4.2+) for self-managed Kafka, allowing multiple consumers to read from the same partition for higher throughput without repartitioning.
- INFO NEW THIS WEEK ACT BY 25 JUN 2026 DigitalOcean release notes · 29 Oct 2026
Kafka 4.3 now available on DigitalOcean
Kafka 4.3 is now the default for new clusters and available for upgrades on existing clusters.
- INFO Apache Kafka releases · 23 Oct 2026
Apache Kafka 4.4.0
Official release of Apache Kafka 4.4.0 with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
- INFO Apache Kafka releases · 20 Oct 2026
Apache Kafka 4.3.2 released
Apache Kafka 4.3.2 is now available, delivering the latest updates for Kafka users.
- INFO AWS What's New · 9 Oct 2026
AWS Lambda adds OAuth auth for self-managed Kafka event sources
Lambda now supports OAuth for Apache Kafka ESMs, allowing authentication via enterprise identity providers such as Cognito or Okta.
- INFO Apache Kafka releases · 3 Oct 2026
Apache Kafka 4.2.2 released
Apache Kafka 4.2.2 is now available. It is a maintenance release fixing issues and improving stability.
News and tools 1
- INFO CNCF Blog · 2 Oct 2026
Rebuilding incident detection on OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Flink on Kubernetes
Case study showing how a SaaS team cut event-to-metric latency from 40 s to under 10 s, dropped costs 97 %, and raised in-scope recall from 60 % to 86 % using a single Flink job.
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