Mickael Maison lays out some changes:
The Apache Kafka community is proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 4.1.0. This blog post highlights the many new features and improvements included in this release. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.
Queues for Kafka (KIP-932) is now in preview. It’s still not ready for production, but you can start evaluating and testing it. See the preview release notes for more details.
This release also introduces a new Streams Rebalance Protocol (KIP-1071) in early access. It is based on the new consumer group protocol (KIP-848).
Read on for another 15 or so completed items.