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
Candidate features for Kafka 0.10.0.0: (Q2. 2016)
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:
- Oct 2016 - 0.10.1.0
- 0.10.1.1 (Dec 2016)
- 0.10.1.2
- Feb 2017 - 0.10.2.0
- Jun 2017 -
- Oct 2017 -