Hi, Nick, We do have plan to update the Kafka dependency in Samza. However, Samza only uses Kafka client library. We have confirmed that any Kafka 0.8.2 clients should be supported by Kafka 0.9 brokers. Hence, it should not block you if you are thinking of upgrading Kafka broker versions (e.g. LinkedIn has been running with this combination for a long time). The main reason that we are taking a bit careful path on the upgrading of Kafka client version is that there are Samza users who are still running Kafka 0.8.2 broker version and if we force upgrade the client version to 0.9, it would likely not be supported by a lower version of Kafka broker.
If you have any specific use case that requires Kafka client version 0.9 and above, please speak up. We will put into consideration in our upgrade plan and timeline. Thanks a lot! -Yi On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Nick Quinn <nqu...@objectivity.com> wrote: > Hi guys- > > > > I was wondering why Samza still has a dependency on Kafka 0.8.2. Does your > development team have any plans to update the Kafka dependency version that > Samza is using? > > Best, > > Nick > >
