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
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
- 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
- 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
- 2.7.0 (Nov 2020)
- 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)
- 3.6.0 (Sep 2023)
- 3.7.0 (Jan 2024)
- 3.7.1 (May 2024)
- 3.8.0 (July 2024)
- 3.8.1 (October 2024)
- 3.9.0 (September 2024)
- 4.0.0 (January 2025)
Older releases
Kafka 0.9.0.0 (Nov. 2015)
- New consumer client for better performance, api, and portability.
- Security
- Quotas