kafkacat has been renamed to kcat to adhere to the Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) trademark policies.
kafkacatis now calledkcat.- Add support for multibyte delimiters to
-Dand-K(#140, #280) - Add support for
-X partition.assignment.strategy=cooperative-stickyincremental rebalancing. - High-level consumer
-Gnow supports exit-on-eof-eoption (#86) - Avro consumer with -J will now emit
key_schema_idandvalue_schema_id.
Upgrade considerations
- Please rename any
kafkacat.confconfig files tokcat.conf.
The old path will continue to work for some time but a warning will be
printed. - Please rename any
KAFKACAT_CONFenvironment variables toKCAT_CONF.
The old environment variable will continue to work for some time but a
warning will be printed.