Deprecation Notices for Apache Kafka

Certain features and functionality in Apache Kafka are deprecated or removed in Cloudera Runtime 7.2.12. You must review these changes along with the information about the features in Kafka that will be removed or deprecated in 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 for kafka-reassign-partitions. Cloudera recommends that you use the --bootstrap-server option instead.