That is for the broker. It is what was most used in production (by LinkedIn) prior to the official release. The client is binary and language independent. You can run 2.10 (for the broker) too, no probs.
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop ********************************************/ On Sep 16, 2014 4:36 PM, "Ash G" <ashish8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Kafka download page we saw - "We build for multiple versions of Scala. > This only matters if you are using Scala and you want a version built for > the same Scala version you use. Otherwise any version should work (2.9.2 is > recommended)." > > Why is Scala 2.9.2 version of kafka recommended? >