I'm wondering if we could shade scala 1.13 dependencies inside the Kafka connector? Then we would be independent of the rather big FLINK-20845.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 5:54 PM Austin Cawley-Edwards < austin.caw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Prasanna, > > It looks like the Kafka 2.5.0 connector upgrade is tied to dropping > support for Scala 2.11. The best place to track that would be the ticket > for Scala 2.13 support, FLINK-13414 [1], and its subtask FLINK-20845 [2]. > > I have listed FLINK-20845 as a blocker for FLINK-19168 for better > visibility. > > Best, > Austin > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-13414 > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-20845 > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:08 AM Prasanna kumar < > prasannakumarram...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Flinksters, >> >> We are researching about if we could use the latest version of kafka >> (2.6.1 or 2.7.0) >> >> Since we are using Flink as a processor , we came across this >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-19168. >> >> It says that it does not support version 2.5.0 and beyond. >> >> That was created 8 months back , just checking if there is any effort on >> that front. >> >> Thanks, >> Prasanna >> >