Re: Flink Kafka Connector: Release and Kafka client versions

2025-04-07 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi Arvid, Thanks for the information. I think your plan makes sense given that we want to get a Flink 2.0 compatible connector out ASAP. I can keep updating my Kafka 4.0.0 PR [1] until we are ready to do the release containing it. In my opinion version numbers are not a constrained resource and

Re: Flink Kafka Connector: Release and Kafka client versions

2025-04-01 Thread Arvid Heise
Hi Tom, thanks for driving this. Updating the Kafka client library has been done only occasionally and there was no formal process. It makes sense to give stronger guidelines. I guess a rigid process would only make sense if we enforce it for example through bots and that was highly debated a cou

Flink Kafka Connector: Release and Kafka client versions

2025-04-01 Thread Tom Cooper
Hi folks, I wanted to double check the approach to the next release of the Flink Connector for Kafka [1]. Currently, there is no release that supports Flink 2.0.0. Also, the Kafka version used in the current 3.4 connector is quite old and has several low and medium severity CVEs. The main bran

Re: Flink Kafka Connector: Release and Kafka client versions

2025-04-01 Thread Yanquan Lv
Hi, Cooper. Thank you for bringing up the discussion about Kafka 4.0.0. I tend to release Kafka Connector 4.0 with Flink 2.0.0 and Kafka 3.9.0, or Kafka 3.8.1 if If the community is concerned about 3.9.0. Here are some of my opinions: 1. The plan for Kafka Connector 4.0.0 was proposed[1] a long