This month, Confluent Platform 3.2.0 with Apache Kafka 0.10.2.0 was released, featuring over 200 bug fixes and performance improvements. The next release of Apache Kafka is planned for June, with features including exactly-once and transactions processing, dropping support for Java 7, and disabling unclean leader election by default. Notable KIPs include adding a purgeDataBefore API in AdminClient, dropping support for Scala 2.10, and adding a peek method to the KStream DSL command. The Kafka Streams API will also receive exactly-once processing semantics and a Reset Consumer Group Offsets tooling. Various blog posts were published on data pipeline architectures, getting started with the Kafka Streams API, joining streams, monitoring Kafka streams applications, and integrating Oracle's cloud with Apache Kafka using the Connect API and Confluent REST Proxy. The Confluent Community Slack Channel is thriving, and the agenda for Kafka Summit NYC has been announced, along with a Kafka Summit hackathon.