use the 0.8.0 tag, it was off the 0.8 branch head but in any case that 0.8 branch ever has to get updates the tag is the way to go
git checkout -b 0.8.0 /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joe.I would like to build final version of 0.8 from git for variety of > reasons. Can I build final version from 0.8 branch or should I use > different branch? > > Thanks, > Vadim > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Joe Stein <joest...@apache.org> wrote: > > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the general > availability > > release of Apache Kafka 0.8.0. > > > > Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging system rethought as a > > distributed commit log. > > > > ** Fast => A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of > reads > > and > > writes per second from thousands of clients. > > > > ** Scalable => Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as > the > > central data backbone > > for a large organization. It can be elastically and transparently > expanded > > without downtime. > > Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines to > > allow data streams > > larger than the capability of any single machine and to allow clusters of > > co-ordinated consumers. > > > > ** Durable => Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the > > cluster to prevent > > data loss. Each broker can handle terabytes of messages without > > performance impact. > > > > ** Distributed by Design => Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design > that > > offers > > strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees. > > > > You can download the release from: > http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html > > > > We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to > > report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at > > http://kafka.apache.org/ > > > > >
