Apache Samza 0.13 [Docs]

We are very excited to announce the release of Apache Samza 0.13.0. It contains previews for the following highly anticipated features; notably new programming model and deployment model.

####Enhancements and Bug Fixes Overall, 150 JIRAs were resolve in this release. Here are few highlights

• SAMZA-871 Adds container heartbeat
• SAMZA-1140 Enable async commit
• SAMZA-1143 Add configurations for localizing arbitrary resources in YARN.
• SAMZA-1154 Add new endpoint to samza-rest to get information about all tasks in a job
• SAMZA-1158 Add samza-rest monitor to clean up stale local stores
• SAMZA-1083 Handle task stores that are older than delete tombstones correctly
• SAMZA-1100 Handle empty stream for both bootstrap and broadcast scenarios
• SAMZA-1112 Fix broker proxy to log fatal errors
• SAMZA-1121 Fix stream appender to prevent propagating exceptions to the caller
• SAMZA-1157 Fix logging for serialization and deserialization errors

####Upgrade Notes

• Samza now supports Scala 2.12.
• Kafka version to 0.10.1.1.
• Elasticsearch version to 2.2.0

####Sources and Artifacts Samza-sources-0.13.0.tgz

For more details about this release, please check out the release blog post.