This is the first release as an Apache top-level project and represents many months of hard work. A few of the major improvements (from https://archive.apache.

This is the first release as an Apache top-level project and represents many months of hard work. A few of the major improvements (from https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.0/RELEASE_NOTES.ht...): * Intra-cluster replication support * Support multiple data directories * Many new internal metrics * Time based log segment rollout Plus many bug fixes and other improvements.