The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release for Apache Kafka 0.8.2.0. The 0.8.2.0 release introduces many new features, improvements and fixes including: - A new Java producer for ease of implementation and enhanced performance. - A Kafka-based offset storage. - Delete topic support. - Per topic configuration of preference for consistency over availability. - Scala 2.11 support and dropping support for Scala 2.8. - LZ4 Compression. All of the changes in this release can be found: https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2.0/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/ Thanks, Jun