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The Apache Kafka community just announced the 0.8.2.1 release. This is a a bug fix release and fixes 4 critical issues reported in the 0.8.2.0 release (the full list of features can be found here).
Since those issues are relatively critical, we recommend everyone upgrade to the 0.8.2.1 release. Note that all those changes are already included in the Kafka jar shipped with Confluent Platform 1.0.
The guide covers Kafka consumer offsets, the challenges with manual control, and the improvements introduced by KIP-1094. Key enhancements include tracking the next offset and leader epoch accurately. This ensures consistent data processing, better reliability, and performance.
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