I'm getting this with console consumer in the binary package which seems to be because it was built under Java 7. Can we stick to 6?
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: kafka/javaapi/consumer/ConsumerConnector : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at kafka.consumer.ConsoleConsumer$.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala:178) at kafka.consumer.ConsoleConsumer.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala) Other minor comments: - I don't think the SBT license needs to be included in the binary package (at the end of LICENSE). - Would prefer that the release notes remove jiras that were resolved as won't fix - e.g., the go client jiras. Thanks again for doing this. Joel On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:36:46PM -0500, Joe Stein wrote: > This is the fourth candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.0. This > release resolves https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1131 and > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1133 > > Release Notes for the 0.8.0 release > http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate4/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Monday December, 2nd, 12pm PDT > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS in addition to the md5 and sha1 > checksum > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate4/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ > > (i.e. in sbt land this can be added to the build.sbt to use Kafka > resolvers += "Apache Staging" at " > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/" > libraryDependencies += "org.apache.kafka" % "kafka_2.10" % "0.8.0" > ) > > * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8 branch) is the 0.8.0 tag > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=2c20a71a010659e25af075a024cbd692c87d4c89 > > /******************************************* > Joe Stein > Founder, Principal Consultant > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > http://www.stealth.ly > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > ********************************************/