Hey Eric, Nice to hear from you ! :-)
The wire and disk format changed to accomodate the compression feature. The upgrade path is documented here, so is the new format - http://people.apache.org/~nehanarkhede/kafka-0.7.0-incubating/RELEASE-NOTES.html Hope that helps, Neha On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Eric Tschetter <eched...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, > > We've been using Kafka 0.6-RC2 with no problems for a while now and > are now looking to actually catch up with the rest of the Kafka world. > I was wondering if these versions are backwards compatible. > Specifically, I'm wondering about the compatibility of the on-disk > messages and the client APIs. I'm wondering if there are any > conversion steps to upgrade the data (or if I need to update clients > first or something like that), or should I just be able to update my > jars at will and have things continue to work? > > I've been looking around a bit and haven't found too much detail about > this, so I decided to ask here. If this is documented somewhere, > please feel free to point me to that. > > --Eric
