Team, Currently we have kafka 0.8.1.1 running with Idk 1.6. Wanted to verify the compatibility of JDK 1.8 with kafka version 0.8.1.1. is Kafka 0.8.1.1 is compatible with jdk1.8, or any other patches have to be applied before upgrading idk 1.6 to idk 1.8. NOTE: along with upgrade to jdk1.8 , we are planning to use G1 GC collector also. Thanks, Vijayanand.