+1 besides, due to the limitation of current pyflink and doc structure between flink and each connector repo, kafka connector version in /flink-python and /docs need to be updated to the upcoming release version, in order to pick up changes since the last kafka connector release
On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM Rahul Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Can you remove from the mailing list > > Thanks And Regards > Rahul > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM Ferenc Csaky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- Best, Bowen
