This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.2.2. This only fixes two critical issues (KAFKA-2189 and KAFKA-2308) related to snappy in 0.8.2.1.
Release Notes for the 0.8.2.2 release https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.2-candidate1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Tuesday, Sep 8, 7pm 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-0.8.2.2-candidate1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * scala-doc https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.2-candidate1/scaladoc/ * java-doc https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.2-candidate1/javadoc/ * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.2 branch) is the 0.8.2.2 tag https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=d01226cfdcb3d9daad8465234750fa515a1e7e4a /******************************************* Thanks, Jun