Github user harshach commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1556
@HeartSaVioR Yes. Users can still use the storm-kafka connector (old api)
to connect to any version of kafka. Given that this is new consumer api we
better move to compatible API soon. Hence the reason to push this as part of
1.0.2 release.
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