I am +1 on a 0.8.1.1 release ( off the 0.8.1 branch tagged) for blocking bug 
fixes.  If we have features/improvements for 0.8.2 then we should hold them off 
( with 0.9.0 providing more system changes).


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> On Mar 18, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are in the process of migrating to 0.8.1, so we haven't seen any bugs
> yet, but would welcome a bugfix release if others are reporting issues.
> Versioning Q: wouldn't that be 0.8.2?
> 
> Otis
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:56 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
>> 

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