Yes, the change is in Kafka Streams, so the kafka-clients jar would not be sufficient.
I've just sent out a note to the mailing list volunteering to be the release manager for a 2.6.2 release. I think we can get this out in a timely manner Thanks Gary On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:43 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > Thanks for raising this. Looking at the PR, the change is in kafka streams, > not clients? > > Ismael > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:39 PM Gary Russell <gruss...@vmware.com> wrote: > > > A critical regression was included in kafka-clients 2.6.1, which is now > > fixed and cherry picked [1]. > > > > For some devs, it is not easy (or they are not allowed by their > > enterprise) to move up to a new release, even a minor release (2.7). Devs > > are often allowed to upgrade to patch releases without approval, though. > > > > There seems to be some reticence to getting 2.6.2 out ASAP, due to the > > effort needed; I understand that a full release of everything is not > > trivial, but could consideration be given to releasing, say, 2.6.1.1 for > > just the kafka-clients jar with this fix? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/9947#issuecomment-767798579 > > > > > > > > > > > > >
