Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | December 2016 | Confluent

This post details several KIPs impacting Kafka semantics and operability: KIP-95 for incremental batch processing in Kafka Streams, KIP-97 for improved Kafka client RPC compatibility allowing newer clients to connect to older brokers, and the proposed KIP-98 for exactly once delivery and transactional messaging. It also highlights community events and other streaming system developments.