This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.2.0. Release Notes for the 0.8.2.0 release https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.0-candidate3/RELEASE_NOTES.html
*** Please download, test and vote by Saturday, Jan 31, 11:30pm PT Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS in addition to the md5, sha1 and sha2 (SHA256) checksum. * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.0-candidate3/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * scala-doc https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.0-candidate3/scaladoc/ * java-doc https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.0-candidate3/javadoc/ * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.2 branch) is the 0.8.2.0 tag https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=223ac42a7a2a0dab378cc411f4938a9cea1eb7ea (commit 7130da90a9ee9e6fb4beb2a2a6ab05c06c9bfac4) /******************************************* Thanks, Jun