Hello devs, I'd like to start a conversation to release a new Kafka connector major version. The last Kafka connector release happened right after Flink 2.0 came out, and since then we shipped a bunch of fixes and improvements, one of them being the Kafka client major version upgrade from 3.x to 4.x [1].
Based on this I suggest to release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0, compiled with Flink 2.1, and 2.2. I am happy to volunteer as release manager. Best, Ferenc [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK/versions/12356170
