This is the second candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1. This release candidate fixes the following two JIRA KAFKA-1288<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1288>and KAFKA-1289 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1289> and updated release steps with the gradle changes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Process for build and verification post build.
Release Notes (updated) for the 0.8.1 release https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.1-candidate2/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Monday, March 10th, 12pm PT 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): https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.1-candidate2/ * 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=62f8aaf74c9d36d1dd49cc7e572a7289206b6414 /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/
