This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.2.1. This only fixes one critical issue (KAFKA-1952) in 0.8.2.0.
Release Notes for the 0.8.2.1 release https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by Saturday, Feb 21, 7pm PT Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS in addition to the md5, sha1 and sha2 (SHA256) checksum. * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/ * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ * scala-doc https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/scaladoc/ * java-doc https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/javadoc/ * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.2 branch) is the 0.8.2.1 tag https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=c1b4c58531343dce80232e0122d085fc687633f6 /******************************************* Thanks, Jun
