Hi Joe et al. Congrats on the beta release! Do I read correctly that libraries can now rely on org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients which does not pull in scala anymore ?
If so, awesome! - pyr On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Libo Yu <yu_l...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Congrats! When do you think the final 0.82 will be released? > > > To: annou...@apache.org; users@kafka.apache.org; d...@kafka.apache.org > > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Kafka 0.8.2-beta Released > > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:50:35 +0000 > > From: joest...@apache.org > > > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the beta release for > Apache Kafka 0.8.2. > > > > The 0.8.2-beta release introduces many new features, improvements and > fixes including: > > - A new Java producer for ease of implementation and enhanced > performance. > > - Delete topic support. > > - Per topic configuration of preference for consistency over > availability. > > - Scala 2.11 support and dropping support for Scala 2.8. > > - LZ4 Compression. > > > > All of the changes in this release can be found: > https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2-beta/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > > > Apache Kafka is high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system > rethought of as a distributed commit log. > > > > ** Fast => A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of > reads and > > writes per second from thousands of clients. > > > > ** Scalable => Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as > the central data backbone > > for a large organization. It can be elastically and transparently > expanded without downtime. > > Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines to > allow data streams > > larger than the capability of any single machine and to allow clusters > of co-ordinated consumers. > > > > ** Durable => Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the > cluster to prevent > > data loss. Each broker can handle terabytes of messages without > performance impact. > > > > ** Distributed by Design => Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design > that offers > > strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees. > > > > You can download the release from: > http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html > > > > We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to > > report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at > http://kafka.apache.org/ > > > >
