Deprecation Notices for Apache Kafka

Features and functionality that will be deprecated or removed in this release or a future release.

Deprecated

kafka-preferred-replica-election
The kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh command line tool has been deprecated in upstream Apache Kafka 2.4.0. Its alternative in CDP, kafka-preferred.replica-election, is also deprecated.
--zookeeper
The --zookeeper option has been deprecated for all Kafka command line tools except kafka-configs and kafka-reassign-partitions. Cloudera recommends that you use the --bootstrap-server option instead.

Removed

kafka-sentry
The kafka-sentry.sh command line tool and its alternative, kafka-sentry, have been removed.