This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.2-beta Release Notes for the 0.8.2-beta release https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/RELEASE_NOTES.html
*** Please download, test and vote by Friday, October 24th, 2pm PT Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS in addition to the md5, sha1 and sha2 (SHA256) checksum. * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * scala-doc https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/scala-doc/ * java-doc https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/java-doc/ * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.2 branch) is the 0.8.2-beta tag https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=2b2c3da2c52bc62a89d60f85125d3723c8410fa0 /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/