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The following is a rough estimate of the release timeline.

Kafka 0.9.0.0: (Nov. 2015)

• New consumer client for better performance, api, and portability.
• Other possible features
  • Security
  • Admin
  • Quotas

Candidate features for Kafka 0.10.0.0: (Q2. 2016)

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Starting with planned release Starting with Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0, the Apache Kafka community is moving moved to time-based release plan as described in the following Wiki page:

• Time Based Releases in Apache Kafka Kafka

Time-based releases

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• Oct 2016 - 0.10.1.0

  • 0.10.1.1 (Dec 2016)

  • 0.10.1.2 

• Feb 2017 - 0.10.2.0
  • 0.10.2.1 (April 2017)
  • 0.10.2.2 (July 2018)
• Jun 2017 - 0.1011.30.0/
  • 0.11.0.
  0 (version number being discussed
  • 3 (July 2018)
• Oct 2017 -  

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• 1.0.0
  • 1.0.1
  • 1.0.2 (July 2018)
• Feb 2018 - 1.1.0
  • 1.1.1 (July 2018)
• Jun 2018 - 2.0.0
  
  • 2.0.1 (Oct 2018)
• Nov 2018 - 2.1.0
  • 2.1.1 (Jan 2019)
• Mar 2019 - 2.2.0
  • 2.2.1 (May 2019)
  • 2.2.2 (Oct 2019)
• June 2019 - 2.3.0
  • 2.3.1 (Sep 2019)
• Dec 2019 - 2.4.0
  • 2.4.1 (March 2020)
• Mar 2020 - 2.5.0
  • 2.5.1 (Aug 2020)
• June 2020 - 2.6.0
  • 2.6.1 (Jan 2021)
  • 2.6.2 (Apr 2021)
  • 2.6.3 (Nov 2021)
• 2.7.0 (Nov  2020)
  • 2.7.1 (May 2021)
  • 2.7.2 (Nov 2021)
• 2.8.0 (Apr 2021)
  • 2.8.1 (Sep 2021)
• 3.0.0 (Sep 2021)
  • 3.0.1 (March 2022)
• 3.1.0 (Jan 2022) 
  • 3.1.1 (April 2022)
• 3.2.0 (May 2022)
  • 3.2.1 (July 2022)
• 3.3.0 (Sep 2022)
  
  • 3.3.1 (Oct 2022) - Release page was never created as it was done soon after 3.3.0.
  • 3.3.2 (Jan 2023)
• 3.4.0 (Feb 2023)
  • 3.4.1 (May 2023)
• 3.5.0 (Jun 2023)
  • 3.5.1 (July 2023)
  • 3.5.2 (Nov. 2023)
• 3.6.0 (Sep 2023)
  • 3.6.1 (Dec 2023)
• 3.7.0 (Jan 2024)
• 3.8.0 (May 2024)

Older releases

Kafka 0.9.0.0 (Nov. 2015)

• New consumer client for better performance, api, and portability.
• Security
• Quotas

Kafka 0.10.0.0 (Q2 2016)

• Release Plan 0.10.0