This is the fourth candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.0. This release resolves https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1131 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1133
Release Notes for the 0.8.0 release http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate4/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday December, 2nd, 12pm PDT Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS in addition to the md5 and sha1 checksum * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate4/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ (i.e. in sbt land this can be added to the build.sbt to use Kafka resolvers += "Apache Staging" at " https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/" libraryDependencies += "org.apache.kafka" % "kafka_2.10" % "0.8.0" ) * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8 branch) is the 0.8.0 tag https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=2c20a71a010659e25af075a024cbd692c87d4c89 /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/