Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | December 2016

Apache Kafka 3.8.0 has been released, bringing numerous new features and improvements to the platform, which are detailed in the release notes. This update coincides with various developments in the streaming community and the introduction of KIPs that promise to significantly influence Kafka's semantics and operability. Confluent has also launched version 3.1 of its Confluent Platform. The community humorously addresses the perennial "tabs versus spaces" debate by utilizing the new confluent-kafka-javascript client to create an application that tracks and displays vote counts on this topic using Kafka and a JavaScript frontend.