[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Kafka 0.8.1.1 Released

[Joe Stein <jo...@apache.org>]

The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the general availability release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1.1.

The 0.8.1.1 is a maintenance release with bug fixes for the 0.8.1 release.
Changes in this release: https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.1.1/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/