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Chapter 1. Features

The features added in this release, and that were not in previous releases of AMQ Streams, are outlined below.

Note

To view all the enhancements and bugs that are resolved in this release, see the AMQ Streams Jira project.

1.1. Kafka 2.8.0 support
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AMQ Streams now supports Apache Kafka version 2.8.0.

AMQ Streams uses Kafka 2.8.0. Only Kafka distributions built by Red Hat are supported.

For upgrade instructions, see AMQ Streams and Kafka upgrades.

Refer to the Kafka 2.7.0 and Kafka 2.8.0 Release Notes for additional information.

Note

Kafka 2.7.x is supported only for the purpose of upgrading to AMQ Streams 1.8.

For more information on supported versions, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase article Red Hat AMQ 7 Component Details Page.

Kafka 2.8.0 requires ZooKeeper version 3.5.9. Therefore, you need to upgrade ZooKeeper when upgrading from AMQ Streams 1.7 to AMQ Streams 1.8, as described in the upgrade documentation.

Warning

Kafka 2.8.0 provides early access to self-managed mode, where Kafka runs without ZooKeeper by utilizing the Raft protocol. Note that self-managed mode is not supported in AMQ Streams.

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