generated: '2026-06-20'
method: searched
source: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients
notes: >-
  The Apache Kafka project publishes its official Java/Scala clients and libraries to
  Maven Central under the org.apache.kafka group. The de-facto official non-JVM clients
  (Python, Go, .NET, C/C++) are maintained by Confluent on top of librdkafka and are
  marked official:true with maintainer: confluent.
packages:
  - language: java
    registry: maven-central
    name: org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients
    url: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients
    install: 'implementation "org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.3.1"'
    official: true
    maintainer: apache
    description: Producer, consumer, and admin client for Apache Kafka.
  - language: java
    registry: maven-central
    name: org.apache.kafka:kafka-streams
    url: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/kafka-streams
    install: 'implementation "org.apache.kafka:kafka-streams:4.3.1"'
    official: true
    maintainer: apache
    description: Kafka Streams stream-processing library.
  - language: java
    registry: maven-central
    name: org.apache.kafka:connect-api
    url: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/connect-api
    install: 'implementation "org.apache.kafka:connect-api:4.3.1"'
    official: true
    maintainer: apache
    description: Kafka Connect API for building source and sink connectors.
  - language: scala
    registry: maven-central
    name: org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.13
    url: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.13
    install: 'libraryDependencies += "org.apache.kafka" %% "kafka" % "4.3.1"'
    official: true
    maintainer: apache
    description: Core Kafka broker/server library (Scala).
  - language: python
    registry: pypi
    name: confluent-kafka
    url: https://pypi.org/project/confluent-kafka/
    install: pip install confluent-kafka
    official: true
    maintainer: confluent
    description: Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka, built on librdkafka.
  - language: go
    registry: pkg.go.dev
    name: github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go
    url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/v2
    install: go get github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/v2/kafka
    official: true
    maintainer: confluent
    description: Confluent's Go client for Apache Kafka, built on librdkafka.
  - language: csharp
    registry: nuget
    name: Confluent.Kafka
    url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Confluent.Kafka
    install: dotnet add package Confluent.Kafka
    official: true
    maintainer: confluent
    description: Confluent's .NET client for Apache Kafka, built on librdkafka.
  - language: c
    registry: source
    name: librdkafka
    url: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka
    install: 'apt-get install librdkafka-dev  # or: brew install librdkafka'
    official: true
    maintainer: confluent
    description: The C/C++ library for Apache Kafka underpinning the non-JVM clients.
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: '@confluentinc/kafka-javascript'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@confluentinc/kafka-javascript
    install: npm install @confluentinc/kafka-javascript
    official: true
    maintainer: confluent
    description: Confluent's Node.js client for Apache Kafka, built on librdkafka.