Hi Kafka team, I am using kafka_2.13-3.6.0.tgz in my mac book and while starting kafka cluster using kraft mode getting below error.
neerajgupta@Neerajs-MacBook-Pro kafka % ./bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/kraft/server-1.properties [2025-02-21 13:21:27,051] INFO Registered kafka:type=kafka.Log4jController MBean (kafka.utils.Log4jControllerRegistration$) [2025-02-21 13:21:27,325] INFO Setting -D jdk.tls.rejectClientInitiatedRenegotiation=true to disable client-initiated TLS renegotiation (org.apache.zookeeper.common.X509Util) [2025-02-21 13:21:27,429] ERROR Exiting Kafka due to fatal exception (kafka.Kafka$) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No MetadataVersion with metadata version 21 at org.apache.kafka.server.common.MetadataVersion.fromFeatureLevel(MetadataVersion.java:480) at org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapMetadata.recordToMetadataVersion(BootstrapMetadata.java:70) at org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapMetadata.fromRecords(BootstrapMetadata.java:54) at org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapDirectory.readFromBinaryFile(BootstrapDirectory.java:106) at org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapDirectory.read(BootstrapDirectory.java:78) at kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer$.initializeLogDirs(KafkaRaftServer.scala:168) at kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer.<init>(KafkaRaftServer.scala:57) at kafka.Kafka$.buildServer(Kafka.scala:83) at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:91) at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala) Attaching configuration for server-1.properties, server-2.properties and server-3.properties files Please assist me. Thanks & Regards, Neeraj Gupta
