Auto rebalance is already turned off in 0.8.1. On 3/18/14 5:56 PM, "Neha Narkhede" <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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