[KAFKA-854] Upgrade dependencies for 0.8

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Scott Carey
• Created: 05/Apr/13 18:11
• Updated: 08/Apr/15 01:44
• Resolved: 08/Apr/15 01:44

Description

Many of the dependencies that Kafka 0.8 uses are old. It would be a good idea to upgrade all of these where possible.

log4j is set to 1.2.15, but the latest is 1.2.17
zookeeper is at 3.3.4, , there is 3.3.6 (August 2012), and 3.4.5 (Nov 2012. 3.4.x includes several major enhancements and fixes over the 3.3.x line.
org.slf4j is at 1.6.4, there is 1.6.6 (June 2012) and 1.7.5 (March 2013)
net.sf.jopt-simple is at 3.2, there is 3.3 (May 2011) and 4.4 (Jan 2013)

Issue Links

• relates to: KAFKA-843 Re-add the release-zip sbt target