FWIW we're using the new consumer in production. 0.9.0.0 had some glitches, but we haven't had issues with 0.9.0.1. YMMV, of course.
With respect to upgrading, as far as I understand, the Big Thing in 0.9 was the new consumer code, and in 0.10 will be Kafka streams. So the big upgrade for a regular consumer should be 0.8 -> 0.9, everything should work the same in 0.10 (at least, that's my expectation. We'll see whether I'm wrong ;-)) On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Cees de Groot Principal Software Engineer PagerDuty, Inc.
