Hi folks, We've merged this PR <https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/8243> to master that upgrades the Kafka client to the new 4.x version.
Please be aware of this compatibility changes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14560 API Removal (KIP-896): Kafka 4.0 completely removes client API request versions that were introduced before Kafka 0.10.x. To use a Kafka 4.0 client, the server it's communicating with must be version 2.1 or newer. *If your server is older than 2.1, a Kafka 4 client will not work.* Thank you
