I have three things to contribute:
* Bug fix for console producer/consumers. I’ve created a PR. * Two new serdes which can be understood from the PRs: * https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/12698 * https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/12699 The serdes change “org/apache/kafka/common/serialization” which are “public interfaces”. Changes to public interfaces need a KIP. So I need to create KIPs. Alex -- Principal Software Engineer, API Externalization