We fixed quite a few critical bugs after the beta1 release and we are preparing for releasing 0.8-final in roughly 3 weeks or so. We are operating 0.8 HEAD in production at LinkedIn but you could wait for the 0.8-final release if you think 0.8 HEAD is too risky.
Thanks, Neha On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Aniket Bhatnagar < [email protected]> wrote: > We are looking to adopt Kafka for our in stream processing use case. One of > the issue seems to be that we use scala 2.10.2 however the the 0.8 Beta1 > release does not seem to support scala 2.10.x. As a result, we are not able > to use Kafka Scala client. I was wondering if we can use branch 0.8 which > seems to have the patch KAFKA-1046 incorporated. But I am not sure, if > branch 0.8 is considered stable enough for production usage. I tried to do > a diff of branches 0.8 and -0.8.0-beta1-candidate1 and there seems to be a > lot of changes between the branches (about 193 different files). Any > insight on this would be very helpful. > > Also, the other option is to build client jar (essentially core jar) from > 0.8 branch and deploy 0.8 Beta1 release on server. Is that recommended? >
