[GitHub] eliaslevy commented on a change in pull request #6889: [FLINK-10599][Documentation] Provide documentation for the modern kafka connector

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eliaslevy commented on a change in pull request #6889: [FLINK-10599][Documentation] Provide documentation for the modern kafka connector
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6889#discussion_r227031828
 
 

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 File path: docs/dev/connectors/kafka.md
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 @@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ For most users, the `FlinkKafkaConsumer08` (part of `flink-connector-kafka`) is
         <td>0.11.x</td>
         <td>Since 0.11.x Kafka does not support scala 2.10. This connector supports <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-98+-+Exactly+Once+Delivery+and+Transactional+Messaging">Kafka transactional messaging</a> to provide exactly once semantic for the producer.</td>
     </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td>flink-connector-kafka_2.11</td>
+        <td>1.7.0</td>
+        <td>FlinkKafkaConsumer<br>
+        FlinkKafkaProducer</td>
+        <td>1.x,2.x</td>
+        <td>This is a modern kafka connector that does not bind to a fixed version of the Kafka client, it only tracks the latest version of the Kafka client.</td>
 
 Review comment:
   You may want to rephrase this.
   change between releases to track the latest Kafka version.
   ```suggestion
           <td>This Kafka connector attempts to track the latest version of the Kafka client. The version of the client it uses may change between Flink releases.  Modern Kafka clients are backwards compatible with broker versions 0.10.0 or later.</td>
   ```

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