Oh, this is quite long-lasting discussion about support of old Kafka clients. I answered on PR - in short, I propose to do a survey on user@ about that and see the results before moving forward.
> On 13 Oct 2020, at 14:08, Piotr Szuberski <[email protected]> wrote: > > A discussion has started under PR with Kafka dependencies update: > https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/13026 > > There is a question whether it won't introduce some problems to users with an > old Kafka version.
