The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the general availability release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1.
The 0.8.1 release introduces log compaction http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#compaction and a move to Gradle for builds. Other changes in this release: https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html. Apache Kafka is high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of 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/
