The Apache Kafka community has released several versions, including 0.8.2.1 which is a bug fix release addressing critical issues, and Apache Kafka 3.8.0 with numerous new features and improvements. A new Confluent Platform version ships with the updated Kafka jar, making the upgrade to 0.8.2.1 unnecessary for users of this platform. To build RAG-enabled GenAI models with Confluent, Flink, and MongoDB, a JavaScript app can be created using the confluent-kafka-javascript client, producing and consuming data from a Kafka topic in a tab vs spaces debate example.