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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-5704: --------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3641 > Auto topic creation causes failure with older clusters > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-5704 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5704 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: KafkaConnect > Affects Versions: 0.11.0.0 > Reporter: Ewen Cheslack-Postava > Assignee: Randall Hauch > Fix For: 0.11.0.1, 1.0.0 > > > The new automatic internal topic creation always tries to check the topic and > create it if missing. However, older brokers that we should still be > compatible with don't support some requests that are used. This results in an > UnsupportedVersionException which some of the TopicAdmin code notes that it > can throw but then isn't caught in the initializers, causing the entire > process to fail. > We should probably just catch it, log a message, and allow things to proceed > hoping that the user has already created the topics correctly (as we used to > do). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)