ijuma commented on PR #17843:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/17843#issuecomment-2495260446

   @ableegoldman Note that we did announce this change publicly too:
   
   https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_370_release_announcement
   
   I agree that we could perhaps have done more on the client side to warn, but 
I focused on the broker side versus the client side because it seems highly 
unlikely that someone would use a Kafka 4.0 client against a Kafka 2.0 (or 
older) broker (Kafka 2.0 was released in 2018, no kafka vendor supports it at 
this point, there are a number of CVEs that apply to it, etc.).
   
   The reverse where someone is using an ancient client against a newer broker 
is much more likely. That's also what we observed while talking to customers 
and users, they tend to be worried about the latter because clients are 
embedded in a large number of applications and are harder/slower to upgrade 
while I'm not aware of any of them raising concerns about the former.


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