GitHub user apurvam opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3947
KAFKA-5959: Fix NPE in Sender.canRetry when idempotence is not enabled You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/apurvam/kafka KAFKA-5959-npe-in-sender Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3947.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3947 ---- commit 29a4522500f720ad3ccb1e37cd2133d449986c81 Author: Apurva Mehta <apu...@confluent.io> Date: 2017-09-22T18:59:51Z Fix NPE in when idempotence is not enabled ---- ---