The wire protocol in 0.8.1 is the same as 0.8.0. The delete topic feature
doesn't completely work in 0.8.1 though.

Thanks,

Jun


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Janos Mucza <Janos_Mucza@epam.com> wrote:

> Dear Kafka Users,
>
> Could you please point me to the protocol description of Kafka 0.8.1?
> Particularly I would be interested in learning about any metadata
> request/response changes since 0.8.0.
>
> When requesting the metadata for a topic with 2 partitions that got
> deleted and recreated with 3 partitions, the metadata response contains 5
> partitions, the last 2 with leader=-1. This happens with
> http://jroland.github.io/kafka-net/ client though kafka-topics.sh shows
> the correct number of partitions. I think the client I'm using might not
> follow 0.8.1 protocol changes.
>
> Best regards,
> Janos
>