kafkacat has been renamed to kcat to adhere to the Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) trademark policies.
kafkacat
is now calledkcat
.- Add support for multibyte delimiters to
-D
and-K
(#140, #280) - Add support for
-X partition.assignment.strategy=cooperative-sticky
incremental rebalancing. - High-level consumer
-G
now supports exit-on-eof-e
option (#86) - Avro consumer with -J will now emit
key_schema_id
andvalue_schema_id
.
Upgrade considerations
- Please rename any
kafkacat.conf
config files tokcat.conf
.
The old path will continue to work for some time but a warning will be
printed. - Please rename any
KAFKACAT_CONF
environment variables toKCAT_CONF
.
The old environment variable will continue to work for some time but a
warning will be printed.