Are you going to update the base to support newer versions of kafka ?

[abhisheksingh94]

As the title suggests, the newer versions of kafka has many older APIs and function depreciated. For example I was trying to upgrade the libraries to support kafka 3.9+(my main goal is kafka 4.0) but I'm getting alot of errors during release due to alot of functions and apis have been removed or depreciated.

As per project pom.xml the library the connector is based on is kafka 3.6.1 and kafka scala 2.12. Also I'm not wrong the java also might need upgrade to 17+.

I'm not soo proficient in Java to make necessary changes. So wanted to know if there is any plans by the maintainers if an upgrade/support to newer kafka clients is in pipeline?

[JustMaris]

I do see that there is this Pull Request that is working on this:
#44

I don't know when it can be expected to be released, but I would also prefer for it to happen sooner rather than later.