Hello Szymon, Currently the community do not have regular time-based release plans for Kafka.
>From your question I think you are more interested in learning about how to keep older versioned clients to talk to different / maybe newer versioned brokers. We are working on a proposal to help you have a easier compatible story and smooth upgrade process: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-35+-+Retrieving+protocol+version Guozhang On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Panas, Szymon <szymon.pa...@igt.com> wrote: > All, > > I am building solution around Apache Kafka with set of dependencies in > other products mainly Kafka client. > > Is there defined road map for the Kafka? > I am particularly interested in version 1.X so it is marked stable. > > Does community plan release every 6 months (each version of Kafka changes > way client communicates and prefer to be on latest stack if possible). Such > information or at least reasonable assumption would help plan the projects. > > Thanks, > Szymon Panas > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is the property of International Game > Technology PLC and/or its subsidiaries and may contain proprietary, > confidential or trade secret information. This message is intended solely > for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient and > have received this message in error, please delete this message from your > system. Any unauthorized reading, distribution, copying, or other use of > this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. > -- -- Guozhang
