The February 2018 release of KSQL version 0.5 focuses on enhancing performance and stability through comprehensive bug fixes and rigorous testing strategies aimed at improving the operational experience. This release marks a significant step towards the general availability of KSQL, supported by extensive soak, bounds, and performance testing, with a soak testing cluster accumulating over 1,000 hours of continuous operation. The testing process involves over 42 different tests that gather more than 700 metrics to evaluate the performance of both stateless and stateful KSQL queries. As KSQL approaches its general availability release, it is anticipated to offer a reliable, production-ready product with a potential for a regular cadence of new features. The KSQL community is encouraged to participate in its development by providing feedback, voting on issues, and contributing via the Confluent Slack community and issue tracker. Additionally, recent enhancements to Kafka Streams with versioned key-value state stores are highlighted, which improve stateful processing capabilities by allowing multiple record versions per key.