+1 (binding) On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I started a discussion last year about bumping the version of the June 2018 > release to 2.0.0[1]. To reiterate the reasons in the original post: > > 1. Adopt KIP-118 (Drop Support for Java 7), which requires a major version > bump due to semantic versioning. > > 2. Take the chance to remove deprecated code that was deprecated prior to > 1.0.0, but not removed in 1.0.0 (e.g. old Scala clients) so that we can > move faster. > > One concern that was raised is that we still do not have a rolling upgrade > path for the old ZK-based consumers. Since the Scala clients haven't been > updated in a long time (they don't support security or the latest message > format), users who need them can continue to use 1.1.0 with no loss of > functionality. > > Since it's already mid-April and people seemed receptive during the > discussion last year, I'm going straight to a vote, but we can discuss more > if needed (of course). > > Ismael > > [1] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dd9d3e31d7e9590c1f727ef5560c93 > 3281bad0de3134469b7b3c4257@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E > -- *Gwen Shapira* Product Manager | Confluent 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap Follow us: Twitter <https://twitter.com/ConfluentInc> | blog <http://www.confluent.io/blog>
