Apache Kafka 3.8.0 has been released, featuring numerous new enhancements and improvements, as detailed in the release notes. This announcement comes after extensive testing and multiple voting rounds that also saw the release of Apache Kafka 0.10.0 and Confluent Platform 3.0. A playful nod to the age-old "tabs or spaces" debate is included, with a suggestion to use the new confluent-kafka-javascript client for developing an application that both produces and consumes vote counts through a Kafka topic, ultimately displaying them on a JavaScript frontend.