I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.1.3.RELEASE is available.

In addition, the Spring Integration extension spring-integration-kafka 3.0.2.RELEASE is also available.

While these are point releases in the 2.1.x (and 3.0.x) lines; they introduce some important new features:

Spring for Apache Kafka

Change Log

• Request/Reply messaging with the ReplyingKafkaTemplate

• pause/resume on listener containers

• default @KafkaHandler method for multi-method @KafkaListener

• ChainedKafkaTransactionManager to improve transaction synchronization scenarios

Spring Integration Kafka

Change Log

• Spring Integration gateways for request/reply scenarios

• Support for transaction initiation in outbound endpoints

For more information see the What’s New section of the reference manual.

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