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Pulsar

Category
Databases and data
Latest
5.0.1
Released
Oct 26, 2026
Docs outline
13 sections

Official docs outline

pulsar.apache.org
  1. Pulsar Overview

    Pulsar's features: multi-tenancy, geo-replication, tiered storage.

  2. Architecture

    Brokers, BookKeeper bookies, metadata store and topic ownership.

  3. Messaging Concepts

    Topics, subscription types, acknowledgement, retention and TTL.

  4. Clients

    Producers, consumers, readers and client libraries.

  5. Schema Registry

    Schema types, compatibility and evolution.

  6. Multi-Tenancy

    Tenants, namespaces and isolation policies.

  7. Geo-Replication

    Replicating topics across clusters.

  8. Tiered Storage

    Offloading old ledgers to object storage.

  9. Topic Compaction

    Key-based compaction of topics.

  10. Pulsar Functions and IO

    Serverless functions and source/sink connectors.

  11. Security

    TLS, authentication, authorization and encryption.

  12. Administration

    Admin API, CLI tools and cluster management.

  13. Configuration

    Broker, bookie and client configuration reference.

Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.

Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
5.0 Oct 5, 2026 5.0.1 Until Oct 5, 2028 LTS
4.2 Mar 24, 2026 4.2.5 Ended Sep 24, 2026
4.1 Sep 8, 2025 4.1.3 Ended Mar 8, 2026
4.0 Oct 21, 2024 4.0.14 Ended Oct 21, 2026 LTS
3.3 Jun 5, 2024 3.3.9 Ended Dec 5, 2024
3.2 Feb 5, 2024 3.2.4 Ended Aug 5, 2024

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