Kafka Streams 3.6.1.400 (DEP 10.2.0) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Kafka. See Apache Kafka 3.6.1 and Apache Kafka Streams homepage for more information.
Version 3.6.1.400
Release Date October 2026
HPE Version Interoperability See Ecosystem Pack Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/kafka/
GitHub Release Tag 3.6.1.400-dep-1020
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names See Package Names for Ecosystem Packs (EEPs and DEPs).

New in This Release

Kafka Streams 3.6.1.300 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:
  • Rebranding

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
GitHub Commit Number Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Fix Number and Description
77fe4b2e83 2026-10-06 KAFKA-1172 Update Jetty to 9.4.64.v20261006-df
bb3e50a50d 2026-08-12 KAFKA-1148 CVE-2026-10050 (Jetty) in Kafka projects
39f46716d7 2026-07-31 KAFKA-1147 CVEs in Kafka
5fb4360898 2026-07-22 KAFKA-1138 Enable log compaction in Kafka Connect internal stream
f4524ed510 2026-07-24 Suppress deprecation warnings in FileOffsetBackingStore#load
0aa03188bf 2026-07-24 Update hadoop to 3.4.1.500-dep-1020-SNAPSHOT
3414e2f1a3 2026-07-22 KAFKA-1139 Upgrade commons-beanutils to 1.11.0 to fix CVE-2025-48734
bf52e7663b 2026-07-20 KAFKA-1134 [Kafka] Upgrade jetty to fix CVEs (CVE-2026-2332)
e56954b458 2026-06-16 KAFKA-1133 [Kafka] Upgrade netty to fix CVEs
For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • Transactions are not supported.
  • Pattern subscription is not supported.
  • The application reset tool hangs if it runs when the Kafka Streams application is running.
  • The application reset tool may throw a Null Pointer Exception when the date or duration parameter is used.
  • The application reset tool does not reset to intermediate offset if the topic has multiple partitions.
  • MAPR-KAFKA-581: Stream hangs in rebalancing state. The workaround is to set a larger timeout. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”

Resolved Issues

Resolved issues refer to issues that were addressed and fixed from the previous EEP release.

  • None.