Hi folks, This proposal was previously in KIP-31 and we separated it to KIP-32 per Neha and Jay's suggestion.
The proposal is to add the following two timestamps to Kafka message. - CreateTime - LogAppendTime The CreateTime will be set by the producer and will change after that. The LogAppendTime will be set by broker for purpose such as enforce log retention and log rolling. Thanks, Jiangjie (Becket) Qin