the upgrade was done to resolve Kafka build failure caused by Spark 2.0.x and subsequent SCALA upgrades.. Kafka 0.10.0 supports the latest scala.
Build error msg: Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.10.5 FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Build file '/ws/output/kafka/kafka-0.9.0.1/build.gradle' line: 309 On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Olaf Flebbe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Amir, > > Is there a specific reason you chose kafka 0.10.0.0 ? There are plenty of > other versions to chose from. > > I like to point you to the flume compilation error introduced by > BIGTOP-2609, since flume has problems with the kafka 0.10.x API. > > There is a patch FLUME-3026 , but the author uses kafka 0.10.1.0 ... > > Olaf
