+1 on this, lately I've tried to bump it to 2.2 but had test issues. G
On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM Ferenc Csaky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello devs, > > I'd like to start a conversation to release a new Kafka connector major > version. > The last Kafka connector release happened right after Flink 2.0 came out, > and > since then we shipped a bunch of fixes and improvements, one of them being > the > Kafka client major version upgrade from 3.x to 4.x [1]. > > Based on this I suggest to release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0, compiled > with > Flink 2.1, and 2.2. > > I am happy to volunteer as release manager. > > Best, > Ferenc > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK/versions/12356170 >
