From eb85eb3cbd63f06b5c8c6f46a0d16a75372dd0c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ismael Juma Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:29:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Newer brokers should not result in new errors for existing clients --- .../java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java index a64bdfb4019..25551a36247 100644 --- a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java +++ b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.java @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ import static org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.propsToMap; * The consumer is not thread-safe. See Multi-threaded Processing for more details. * *

Cross-Version Compatibility

- * This client can communicate with brokers that are version 2.1 or newer. Older or newer brokers may not support + * This client can communicate with brokers that are version 2.1 or newer. Older brokers may not support * certain features. For example, 3.9 brokers do not support {@code subscribe(SubscriptionPattern)}, because this feature was added * in version 4.0. You will receive an {@link org.apache.kafka.common.errors.UnsupportedVersionException} * when invoking an API that is not available on the running broker version.