Thanks for giving the 0.8.1 release a spin! A few people have reported bugs with delete topic <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1310> and also the automatic leader rebalancing<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1305>feature that we released as part of 0.8.1. These features were released as beta and were not widely tested at LinkedIn, unlike most of the stuff that we have released in the past. As a result, more bugs are being reported on 0.8.1 that are of a rather serious nature. It is unclear how many of these bugs might show up on 0.8.1 as more people adopt it. To mitigate the impact and also to continue releasing stable code to our users, I'm proposing we do a point release (0.8.1.1?) to turn off these features for the time being. Stabilize and test these and then release these as part of 0.8.2.
Do people have any thoughts on this? Thanks, Neha
