Hi John, 0.10.0.0 is at the RC stage at the moment (two RCs have been released and we know that there will be a third one at least). There are never guarantees when it comes to dates, but it is very likely that the final release will happen in Q2.
If upgrading is a big deal, as you say, then perhaps it makes sense to go straight to 0.10.0.0. Ideally you would run a RC in a test cluster to verify that there are no problems with it in your use-case. Ismael On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:45 PM, John Holland < john.holl...@objectpartners.com> wrote: > At my current client they are on Kafka 0.8.2.2 and were looking at > upgrading to 0.9 for bug fixes mostly. The new consumer is also enticing > but it has been said it's still "beta" quality which is a hard sell. > > I'm considering recommending to wait for 0.10 in hopes that the new > consumer will be considered production ready. Plus the timestamp feature, > rack awareness and kafka-streams all look like something that would be very > useful. > > The release page says Q2 of this year, is it still on track for that? Do > you recommend skipping 0.9 and going straight to 0.10? > > I ask this because upgrading our clusters is something taken very seriously > due to how central Kafka is in the system and it comes with a lot of > scrutiny. > > thanks for any input, > John >
