Does Kafka support java 10 or java 11?

Question

I am planning to use kafka for stream and messaging purpose. Our infrastructure is moving to java 11. So wanted to know does kafka support java 10 or java 11 ?.

Thanks

Answer 1

According to Kafka documentation, version 2.1.0, released on 2018-11-20, supports Java 11.

Answer 2

From the Kafka tickets themselves:

• KAFKA-6855: This shows Kafka is now able to start with Java10. That ticket is closed, and that shows versions 1.1.1 as 2.0.0 as the only ones that have the fix - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6855
• KAFKA-7264: These issues have been resolved as of 11/Oct/18, as of Kafka release 2.1.0 This ticket shows there's still outstanding issues to get Kafka running under Java 11. This ticket is targeted for 2.1.0 release, so it's definitely still an open issue - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7264

Answer 3

The issues mentioned in KAFKA-7264 have been resolved as of 11/Oct/18. And it worked fine when I tried it in a VM with Ubuntu 18.04, OpenJDK 11 and Kafka 2.0.0.