Future release plan

The following is a rough estimate of the release timeline.

Kafka 0.9.0.0: (Nov. 2015)

• New consumer client for better performance, api, and portability.
• Other possible features
  • Security
  • Admin
  • Quotas

Candidate features for Kafka 0.10.0.0: (Q2. 2016)

• Release Plan 0.10.0
  
  

Starting with planned release Kafka 0.10.1.0 the Apache Kafka community is moving to time-based release plan as described in the following Wiki page:

• Time Based Releases in Apache Kafka 

The next release is planned for mid-October 2016, with feature-freeze (i.e branch cutting) planning for mid-September.