>> Is it possible to update from 0.8 on the fly (rolling upgrade)? Yes.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:59 PM, ted won <realtime...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats!! I love Apache Kafka ~ > On Mar 13, 2014 1:34 AM, "Joe Stein" <joest...@apache.org> wrote: > > > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the general > availability > > release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1. > > > > The 0.8.1 release introduces log compaction > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#compaction and a move to > > Gradle for builds. > > Other changes in this release: > > https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html. > > > > Apache Kafka is high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system > > rethought of as a distributed commit log. > > > > ** Fast => A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of > reads > > and > > writes per second from thousands of clients. > > > > ** Scalable => Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as > the > > central data backbone > > for a large organization. It can be elastically and transparently > expanded > > without downtime. > > Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines to > > allow data streams > > larger than the capability of any single machine and to allow clusters of > > co-ordinated consumers. > > > > ** Durable => Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the > > cluster to prevent > > data loss. Each broker can handle terabytes of messages without > > performance impact. > > > > ** Distributed by Design => Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design > that > > offers > > strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees. > > > > You can download the release from: > http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html > > > > We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to > > report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at > > http://kafka.apache.org/ > > > > >
