Hi all, We have added a number of major features and changes to master since 0.14.1 that warrants a major 1.0 release.
Within LinkedIn, some of these features have already been tested as part of our test suites. We plan to continue our testing in coming weeks to validate the stability prior to release. We wanted to kick off the discussion in the open source forum to keep the momentum flowing. Here is a selected list of features that are part of the new release SAMZA-1789: unify ApplicationDescriptor and ApplicationRunner for high- and low-level APIs in YARN and standalone environment SAMZA-1804: System and stream descriptors SAMZA-1858: Public APIs for shared context SAMZA-1763: Add async methods to Table API SAMZA-1786: Introduce the metadata store abstraction SAMZA-1859: Zookeeper implementation of MetadataStore SAMZA-1788: Add the LocationIdProvider abstraction SAMZA-1648: Integration Test Framework & Collection Stream Impl We have also worked on the following upgrades and bugfixes. Here are some highlights SAMZA-1768: Handle corrupted OFFSET file SAMZA-1817: Long classpath support for non-split deployments SAMZA-1719: Add caching support to table-api SAMZA-1783: Add Log4j2 functionality in Samza SAMZA-1868: Kafka client upgrade. Refactor KafkaSystemAdmin from using SimpleConsumer* SAMZA-1776: Kafka client upgrade. Refactor KafkaSystemConsumer to remove the usage of deprecated SimpleConsumer client* SAMZA-1730: Adding state validation in StreamProcessor before any lifecycle operation and group coordination SAMZA-1695: Clear events in ScheduleAfterDebounceTime on session expiration SAMZA-1647: Fix race conditions in StreamProcessor SAMZA-1748: Failure tests in the standalone deployment *: pending checkin. You can find a concrete list of the features, bug-fixes, upgrades here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-1875?jql=project%20%3D%20SAMZA%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Fixed%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC. Here is my proposal on our release schedule and timelines. 1. Cut the 1.0 release branch. 2. Target a release vote on the week of Oct 1st. -- Thanks rayman
