take a look at the quick start https://cwiki.apache.org/KAFKA/kafka-08-quick-start.html for 0.8
you need to build from the branch until there is an official release > git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka.git> cd kafka > git checkout -b 0.8 remotes/origin/0.8 > ./sbt update > ./sbt package > ./sbt assembly-package-dependency On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > There's still no download link for 0.8 on this page: > > http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html > > What's the preferred link? > > Jason > -- /* Joe Stein http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> */