Future release plan

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

• Time Based Releases in Apache Kafka

Time-based releases

• 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 - 0.11.0.0
  • 0.11.0.3 (July 2018)
• Oct 2017 - 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 (target: October 2021)
• Nov 2020 - 2.7.0
  • 2.7.1 (May 2021)
  • 2.7.2 (target: October 2021)
• 2.8.0 (Apr 2021)
  • 2.8.1 (Sep 2021)
• 3.0.0 (target: July 2021)
• 3.1.0 (target: December 2021) 

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