Actually, new and improved Kafka source and sink were committed to
Flume trunk (but no release yet). The source is slightly better than
the github one - we support buffering by number of messages and by
latency. I tested both with 0.8.1.1 and with Kafka trunk.

I blogged about them a bit here:
http://ingest.tips/2014/09/26/trying-to-decide-between-flume-and-kafka-try-both/

If you happen to use Flume from CDH5.2, you have the Kafka source and
sink in your distribution.

Gwen

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Mangtani, Kushal
<Kushal.Mangtani@viasat.com> wrote:
> Yes, Flume has support for Kafka 0.8.1. Refer the below link for Flume Kafka
> sink,source. I have been using this in my prod and it is relatively stable
> https://github.com/thilinamb/flume-ng-kafka-sink
>
> -Kushal Mangtani
> ________________________________
> From: Mongeol Heo [mongeol.heo@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:38 PM
> To: user@flume.apache.org
> Subject: Kafka version
>
> Hi,
>
> My question is that will flume sink and source for apache kafka support
> latest version of it?
> As I know, even sink/source for kafka 0.7.2 is not released yet.
> It will be really great if it does.
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Mungeol