Allen, By "beta quality" we meant to say that it is not used in production yet as we know of, and its public APIs may have minor changes in future 0.9.0.1 release. But if you need any new features of the 0.9.0.0 release like security I would recommend you to start trying it out.
Thanks, Guozhang On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:53 AM, allen chan <allen.michael.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the documentation it says the new consumer is considered beta quality. I > cannot find what is beta about it. Stability? Performance? > Can someone clarify? > 3.3.2 New Consumer Configs > <http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#newconsumerconfigs>Since > 0.9.0.0 we have been working on a replacement for our existing simple and > high-level consumers. The code is considered beta quality" > > -- > Allen Michael Chan > -- -- Guozhang
