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As part of KIP-751, we deprecated support for Scala 2.12 with the goal to remove it in Apache 4.0 – that is, a single Scala version would be supported at that point. I propose we take the chance to formalize that only a single Scala version will be supported at any point in time from Apache Kafka 4.0 and the artifact name should be changed to be simply kafka  (i.e. the Scala version suffix would be removed).

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Rename Maven artifact kafka_2.13  to kafka  in Apache Kafka 4.0.

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