On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 3.1.1 is generally available now from Maven central.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.1 GA release.

This patch release contains a few minor features, enhancements and bug fixes. Please see the release notes for more details.

We want to thank all the community members who contributed to this release.

This is the first GA release that we are doing since Gary Russell made the decision to retire. He is the founder of this project. Gary's penchant for software design is exemplary and his wisdom and insights are reflected throughout this project. We want to thank him for all his meticulous efforts for Spring for Apache Kafka and we wish him well.

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