I actually don't see the beta release on that download page: http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html
-Jay On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Joe Stein <joest...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the beta release for > Apache Kafka 0.8.2. > > The 0.8.2-beta release introduces many new features, improvements and > fixes including: > - A new Java producer for ease of implementation and enhanced performance. > - Delete topic support. > - Per topic configuration of preference for consistency over availability. > - Scala 2.11 support and dropping support for Scala 2.8. > - LZ4 Compression. > > All of the changes in this release can be found: > https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2-beta/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/ > >
