# Librdkafka binary availability **URL:** \ **Category:** Clients\ **Created:** [10 January 2025 13:24 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405 "2025-01-10T13:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![walrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/51bf81/32.png) [@walrus](https://forum.confluent.io/u/walrus)\ **Post date:** [10 January 2025 13:24 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/1 "2025-01-10T13:24:15Z")
Hi, [this page](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/7.8/clients/index.html#librdkafka-and-derived-clients) suggests librdkafka 2.8.X is available here [Index of clients](https://packages.confluent.io/clients/), but I can only find up to 2.4.0? Am I missing something? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/confluentcommunity/original/2X/4/4fd67d4d9062f531e96cb3431e880be1a82b9b8e.png) ---
**Author:** ![dtroiano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/dtroiano/32/1961_2.png) [@dtroiano](https://forum.confluent.io/u/dtroiano)\ **Post date:** [10 January 2025 16:46 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/2 "2025-01-10T16:46:35Z")
This looks to have been an issue with the HTML index not having been updated. Later versions were still available if you had tried to install though: ```auto $ apt-cache madison librdkafka-dev librdkafka-dev | 2.8.0-1.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.6.1-1.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.6.0-1.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.5.3-1.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.5.0-1.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.4.0-3.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.4.0-2.cflt~ubu22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 2.4.0-1.cflt~ub22 | https://packages.confluent.io/clients/deb jammy/main amd64 Packages librdkafka-dev | 1.8.0-1build1 | http://us-east-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages ``` The index is updated now. Thanks for raising this! ---
**Author:** ![walrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/51bf81/32.png) [@walrus](https://forum.confluent.io/u/walrus)\ **Post date:** [13 January 2025 14:38 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/3 "2025-01-13T14:38:56Z")
Hi, thanks for the prompt reply. We are using RHEL8 - so these debian packages won’t work for us. We’re expecting 2.8.X available here: [Index of clients/rpm/centos/8/x86\_64](https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/8/x86_64/) Can you confirm if this will be updated or not? This page suggests confluent platform 7.8.X is available on RHEL8 → [Supported Versions and Interoperability for Confluent Platform | Confluent Documentation](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#operating-systems) With that in mind - I would have thought this package should be available for RHEL8? Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![nbuesing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/nbuesing/32/1433_2.png) [@nbuesing](https://forum.confluent.io/u/nbuesing)\ **Post date:** [13 January 2025 14:45 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/4 "2025-01-13T14:45:22Z")
I do not see 2.8 librdkafka located here as well: [https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/8Server/x86\_64/](https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/8Server/x86_64/) but I do see it in [https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/9Server/aarch64/](https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/9Server/aarch64/) as well as [https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/9Server/x86\_64/](https://packages.confluent.io/clients/rpm/centos/9Server/x86_64/) ---
**Author:** ![esabellico](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/esabellico/32/4599_2.png) [@esabellico](https://forum.confluent.io/u/esabellico)\ **Post date:** [13 January 2025 17:56 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/5 "2025-01-13T17:56:42Z")
@nbuesing we stopped releasing for CentOS 8 when it went EOL as it doesn’t have security patches. We are trying to switch to RockyLinux 8 to continue supporting RHEL 8 until planned. ---
**Author:** ![nbuesing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/nbuesing/32/1433_2.png) [@nbuesing](https://forum.confluent.io/u/nbuesing)\ **Post date:** [13 January 2025 18:39 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/6 "2025-01-13T18:39:31Z")
Thanks for the info, should [Supported Versions and Interoperability for Confluent Platform | Confluent Documentation](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#operating-systems) be updated indicating that CentOS8 is not supported? ---
**Author:** ![walrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/51bf81/32.png) [@walrus](https://forum.confluent.io/u/walrus)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2025 19:50 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/librdkafka-binary-availability/35405/7 "2025-07-16T19:50:24Z")
Hi, is there any update on the timelines for generating librdkafka rpms for RHEL? This is very important to us.