[SAMZA-185] Upgrade Samza to Kafka 0.8.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: build
• Labels: easyfix
• Assignee: Martin Kleppmann
• Reporter: Chris Riccomini
• Created: 14/Mar/14 21:24
• Updated: 02/Apr/14 00:40
• Resolved: 02/Apr/14 00:40

Description

We should upgrade Kafka to 0.8.1. This involves:

1. Switch to using Kafka's maven dependencies (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache//kafka/kafka_2.10/0.8.1/) instead of checking in JARs.
2. Upgrade build.gradle and gradle dependency versions to depend on 0.8.1.
3. Update index.md in docs to no longer say "It depends on a snapshot version of Kafka that will not officially be released for a few months."

Issue Links

• is related to: KAFKA-1308 Publish jar of test utilities to Maven
• is related to: SAMZA-183 Update hello-samza to Kafka 0.8.1