Hi, because today, as far as I understood, should be the deadline for having the PRs related to KIPs merged for the 2.0.0, maybe any committers can take a look (review and maybe merge) the PR :
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5097 related to the KIP-176 : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-176%3A+Remove+deprecated+new-consumer+option+for+tools 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/>