Hi folks As we begin to prepare a release plan for 3.5, I was wondering if we plan to deprecate Zookeeper support with this release? I am asking this because some prior KIPs ([1] and [2]) mentioned 3.5 as the targeted version when we would mark Zookeeper support as deprecated.
Personally, I would prefer that we update the Zk version with this release [3] and deprecate support for Zk in the future versions. Upgrading the Zk version and deprecating future support in the same Apache Kafka version may be confusing for the users. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-866+ZooKeeper+to+KRaft+Migration [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-833%3A+Mark+KRaft+as+Production+Ready [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14661 Regards, Divij Vaidya
