This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1. Release Notes for the 0.8.1 release http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.1-candidate1/RELEASE_NOTES.html
*** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, March 4th, 6pm 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, sha1 and sha2 (SHA256) checksum * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.1-candidate1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.1 branch) is the 0.8.1 tag https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=0c9f03fd7a6cae909c429a25ffb4624a7fe507ff /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/
