Sorry ... I hope it's not too late but I created the KIP-176 on September https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-176%3A+Remove+deprecated+new-consumer+option+for+tools
but due to be a breaking change, I needed to wait for a major release ... and the right time is now. Can you vote for that adding to the release plan, please ? Thanks, Paolo Patierno Principal Software Engineer (IoT) @ Red Hat Microsoft MVP on Azure & IoT Microsoft Azure Advisor Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/>
