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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-10599: ---------------------------------------- zentol commented on a change in pull request #6889: [FLINK-10599][Documentation] Provide documentation for the modern kafka connector URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6889#discussion_r227351375 ########## File path: docs/dev/connectors/kafka.md ########## @@ -100,6 +108,30 @@ Note that the streaming connectors are currently not part of the binary distribu * Follow the instructions from [Kafka's quickstart](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart) to download the code and launch a server (launching a Zookeeper and a Kafka server is required every time before starting the application). * If the Kafka and Zookeeper servers are running on a remote machine, then the `advertised.host.name` setting in the `config/server.properties` file must be set to the machine's IP address. +## Modern Kafka Connector + +Starting with Flink 1.7, there is a new Kafka connector that does not track a specific Kafka major version. Rather, it tracks the latest version of Kafka at the time of the Flink release. + +If your Kafka broker version is 1.0.0 or newer, you should use this Kafka connector. If you use an older version of Kafka (0.11, 0.10, 0.9, or 0.8), you should use the connector corresponding to the broker version. + +### Compatibility + +The the modern Kafka connector is compatible with older and newer Kafka brokers through the compatibility guarantees of the Kafka client API and broker. The modern Kafka client is compatible with broker versions 0.10.0 or later, depending on the features used. Fo details on Kafka compatibility, please refer to the [Kafka documentation](https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#protocol_compatibility). Review comment: double "the"; typo: Fo -> For ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org > Provide documentation for the modern kafka connector > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-10599 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10599 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Documentation, Kafka Connector > Reporter: vinoyang > Assignee: vinoyang > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 1.7.0 > > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)