We are looking to adopt Kafka for our in stream processing use case. One of the issue seems to be that we use scala 2.10.2 however the the 0.8 Beta1 release does not seem to support scala 2.10.x. As a result, we are not able to use Kafka Scala client. I was wondering if we can use branch 0.8 which seems to have the patch KAFKA-1046 incorporated. But I am not sure, if branch 0.8 is considered stable enough for production usage. I tried to do a diff of branches 0.8 and -0.8.0-beta1-candidate1 and there seems to be a lot of changes between the branches (about 193 different files). Any insight on this would be very helpful.
Also, the other option is to build client jar (essentially core jar) from 0.8 branch and deploy 0.8 Beta1 release on server. Is that recommended?
