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• Basic client compatibility:
  • Java: any version
  • KIP-35 enabled clients: any version
• Kafka Streams:
  • versions < 0.11.0,
  • versions 0.11.0.x with EOS turned off
  • versions: 2.0.x, 2.1.0, 2.1.1x, and 2.2.0
    • with EOS turned off
    • without message headers
    • note: message format 0.10+ is required
  • versions 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, and newer are not supported (because they use headers internally, which require broker 0.11.0 and message format 0.11))
• Kafka Connect: versions <= 0.10.1
• Features that newer clients might notice missing:
  • AdminClient
    • Topics
      • createPartitions
    • ACLs
      • createAcls
      • describeAcls
      • deleteAcls
    • Configs
      • describeConfigs
      • alterConfigs
    • Log Dirs
      • describeLogDirs
      • describeReplicaLogDirs
      • alterReplicaLogDirs

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• Basic client compatibility:
  • Java: any version
  • KIP-35 enabled clients: any version
• Kafka Streams: 
  • versions < 0.11.0,
  • versions 0.11.0.x with EOS turned off
  • versions 2.0.x, 2.1.0, 2.1.1x, and 2.2.0
    • with EOS turned off
    • without message headers
    • note: message format 0.10+ is required
  • versions 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, and newer are not supported (because they use headers internally that require broker 0.11.0 and message format 0.11)
• Kafka Connect: any version
• Features that newer clients might notice missing:
  • AdminClient
    • Topics
      • createPartitions
    • ACLs
      • createAcls
      • describeAcls
      • deleteAcls
    • Configs
      • describeConfigs
      • alterConfigs
    • Log Dirs
      • describeLogDirs
      • describeReplicaLogDirs
      • alterReplicaLogDirs

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• Basic client compatibility:
  • Java: any version
  • KIP-35 enabled clients: any version
• Kafka Streams: any version
  • note: since version 0.11.0, if EOS is used, message format 0.11+ is required
  • note: since version 2.0, message format 0.10+ is required
  • note: since version 2.0, if message headers are used, message format 0.11+ is required
  • note, since 2.1.2, 2.2.1 , and 2.3.0 message format 0.11+ is required
• Kafka Connect: any version
• Features that newer clients might notice missing:
  • Topics:
    • createPartitions
  • Log Dirs
    • describeLogDirs
    • describeReplicaLogDirs
    • alterReplicaLogDirs

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• Basic client compatibility:
  • Java: any version
  • KIP-35 enabled clients: any version
• Kafka Streams:
  • note: since version 0.11.0, if EOS is used, message format 0.11+ is required
  • note: since version 2.0, message format 0.10+ is required
  • note: since version 2.0, if message headers are used, message format 0.11+ is required
  • note, since 2.1.2, 2.2.1 , and 2.3.0 message format 0.11+ is required
• Kafka Connect: any version
• Features that newer clients might notice missing:

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