Release Notes - Kafka - Version 0.8.1.1

Bug

[KAFKA-1310] - Zookeeper timeout causes deadlock in Controller
[KAFKA-1311] - Add a flag to turn off delete topic until it is stable
[KAFKA-1315] - log.dirs property in KafkaServer intolerant of trailing slash
[KAFKA-1317] - KafkaServer 0.8.1 not responding to .shutdown() cleanly, possibly related to TopicDeletionManager or MetricsMeter state
[KAFKA-1323] - log.dirs server property no longer supports relative directories
[KAFKA-1350] - Fix excessive state change logging
[KAFKA-1355] - Reduce/optimize update metadata requests sent during leader election
[KAFKA-1358] - Broker throws exception when reconnecting to zookeeper
[KAFKA-1362] - Publish sources and javadoc jars
[KAFKA-1363] - testTopicConfigChangesDuringDeleteTopic hangs
[KAFKA-1365] - Second Manual preferred replica leader election command always fails
[KAFKA-1373] - LogCleaner assumes first dirty offset zero if there is no cleaner checkpoint
[KAFKA-1398] - Topic config changes can be lost and cause fatal exceptions on broker restarts

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