Zookeeper is not part of the kafka project and must be installed separately. 
Confluent maintain a version compatibility table you can use as a reference: 
https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#zk
 
<https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#zk>

> On Jul 23, 2020, at 1:05 PM, M. Manna <manme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK, ZK is packed with Kafka. So if you upgrade to 2.4.1 you’ll get what
> is in 2.4.1.
> 
> It’s a little different however, if you’re hosting ZK in a different host
> running independently of Kafka.
> 
> What’s your situation ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 21:02, Andrey Klochkov <akloch...@liftoff.io> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> We're upgrading our Kafka from 1.1.0 to 2.4.1 and I'm wondering if ZK needs
>> to be upgraded too (we're currently on 3.4.6). The upgrade guide says that
>> "kafka has switched to the XXX version of ZK" but never says if switching
>> to a newer ZK is mandatory or not. What are the guidelines on keeping Kafka
>> and ZK compatible?
>> 
>> --
>> Andrey Klochkov
>> 

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