title: Druid 0.12.0 release published: true layout: post author: Druid PMC tags: “#release”

We're excited to announce the general availability of our latest release, Druid 0.12.0!

Druid 0.12.0 contains over a hundred performance improvements, stability improvements, and bug fixes from almost 40 contributors. This release adds major improvements to the Kafka indexing service.

Major new features include:

  • Kafka indexing service incremental publishing
  • Prioritized task locking
  • Improved automatic segment management
  • Test stats post-aggregators
  • Numeric quantiles sketch aggregator
  • Basic auth extension
  • Query request queuing improvements
  • Parse batch support
  • Various performance improvements
  • Various improvements to Druid SQL

You can download the release here: /downloads.html

The full release notes are here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/releases/druid-0.12.0

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!