Just curious, what are the pros and cons of this? Can the 0.8.1.1 client still talk to 0.8.0 versions of Kafka, or do you need it to match your Kafka version exactly?
Matei > On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Bhaskar Dutta <bhas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any plan to bump the Kafka version dependency in Spark 1.2 from > 0.8.0 to 0.8.1.1? > > Current dependency is still on Kafka 0.8.0 > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-1.2/external/kafka/pom.xml > <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-1.2/external/kafka/pom.xml> > > Thanks > Bhaskie