Just want to chime in to add we'd like to use some of the new security features in Kafka 0.9, ACLs and TLS in particular.
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Nick Quinn <nqu...@objectivity.com> wrote: > Thanks Yi! > > One more question, if I may: I saw that you dropped a 0.10.0 in December > of 2015, but the version in Github is still 0.10.0-rc. Do you guys plan on > an official release of 0.10.0 or are you settling for a simple rc release? > The reason I ask is that it is hard to match the git commits to the release > when there is no official 0.10.0 release. > > Thanks! > Nick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yi Pan [mailto:nickpa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 11:22 AM > To: dev@samza.apache.org > Subject: Re: Kafka dependency > > 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 > > > > >
