With a new major release comes the opportunity to update dependencies;
potentially including bug fixes, performance improvements, and useful
features. Below is some analysis of the current state of Kafka dependencies
and the available updates with change logs:
Note: this shows [Current -> Newest], there may be maintenance release in
between that are a more appropriate choice.
- org.scala-lang:scala-library [2.10.5 -> 2.10.6]
- http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.10.6
- Scala 2.10.6 resolves a license incompatibility in
scala.util.Sorting
- Otherwise identical to Scala 2.10.5
- Requires small gradle build changes and variable in
kafka-run-class.sh
- org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java [1.1.1.7 -> 1.1.2]
- https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/develop/Milestone.md
- Fixes SnappyOutputStream.close() is not idempotent
- net.jpountz.lz4:lz4 [1.2.0 -> 1.3]
- http://blog.jpountz.net/post/103674111856/lz4-java-130-is-out
- May want to rewrite integration to use bytebuffers now that its
available
- junit:junit [4.11 -> 4.12]
-
https://github.com/junit-team/junit/blob/master/doc/ReleaseNotes4.12.md
- org.easymock:easymock [3.3.1 -> 3.4]
- https://github.com/easymock/easymock/releases/tag/easymock-3.4
- org.powermock:powermock-api-easymock [1.6.2 -> 1.6.3]
- org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4 [1.6.2 -> 1.6.3]
- https://github.com/jayway/powermock/blob/master/changelog.txt
- org.slf4j:slf4j-api [1.7.6 -> 1.7.12]
- org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12 [1.7.6 -> 1.7.12
- http://www.slf4j.org/news.html
- com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs:jackson-jaxrs-json-provider [2.5.4 ->
2.6.3]
-
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-jaxrs-providers/blob/master/release-notes/VERSION
- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind [2.5.4 -> 2.6.3]
-
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/blob/master/release-notes/VERSION#L61
- many small bug fixes
- org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server [9.2.12.v20150709 -> 9.3.5.v20151012]
- org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-servlet [9.2.12.v20150709 -> 9.3.5.v20151012]
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/master/VERSION.txt
- org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15on [1.52 -> 1.53]
- https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html
- net.sf.jopt-simple:jopt-simple [3.2 -> 4.9]
- Only used in migration tool
- Remove in favor of argparse? to reduce dependencies
- org.rocksdb:rocksdbjni [3.10.1 -> 4.0]
- https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/releases
- org.objenesis:objenesis [1.2 -> 2.2]
- http://objenesis.org/notes.html
- Is this library still needed/used?
- com.yammer.metrics:metrics-core [2.2.0 -> NA]
- Under new location: io.dropwizard.metrics:metrics-core:3.1.2
- Explanation:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/dropwizard-user/1usH7frpnZE/RSQUsOBFMsoJ
- Likely to big of a change to be worth it, since Kafka metrics now
exists
- Listed for completeness
So do we want to update any of these? Any that we absolutely should not?
Once we get a list of those to be updated I can send a pull request.
Thanks,
Grant
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Grant Henke
Software Engineer | Cloudera
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