Introducing Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Kafka & Flink SQL

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Introduces native queue semantics for Kafka, enabling elastic consumer scaling and per-message acknowledgment for task-processing workloads. Flink SQL is now GA in Confluent Platform, offering a declarative stream processing experience with DDLs, changelogs, and shared compute pools. Confluent Private Cloud Gateway 1.2 adds intelligent fencing and unfencing for migration and failover, and protocol-level auth swapping. Native Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) support is added for handling unprocessable records.