Support for kafka 1.1.0 inside kafka-python

[88manpreet]

We are planning to upgrade our clusters to use latest kafka confluent-kafka 1.1.0. Would the latest version of kafka-python be compatible with kafka broker-protocol version and message-format version 1.1? Are there any plans to support kafka 1.1.0 test-fixtures in upcoming version?

[88manpreet]

@ryarnyah thanks :)
@dpkp @jeffwidman Are there plans to support kafka 1.1 in near future?

[dpkp]

Old clients (of all languages) should generally continue to work with new brokers as expected. kafka-python is no different. It will work with 1.1 clusters. But new features added to the 1.1 brokers wont be available immediately / until someone adds them to the driver.

[88manpreet]

@dpkp Thanks for the prompt response! I believe the same holds for kafka-python 1.3.3 version as well, except that the support for kafka 1.0.0 protocol changes as part of issue "Add Request/Response structs for kafka broker 1.0.0 #1368", won't be relevant?

[dpkp]

correct

[88manpreet]

cool. We are also looking forward to use the implementation of idempotent producer as part of #1396 in future kafka-python upgrades :)