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  • What impact (if any) will there be on existing users? Users who use Kafka clusters with Zookeeper clients older than 3.5.x won't be able to communicate with a Zookeeper cluster using 3.8.1. As mentioned in the accompanying JIRA ticket Apache Kafka has been using Zookeeper since version 2.4, everything above and including this version should be stable. It is acceptable to break compatibility with Apache Kafka versions prior to 2.4 as they are considered beyond their end of life and are not maintained (source: Time Based Release Plan#WhatIsOurEOLPolicy).
  • If we are changing behavior how will we phase out the older behavior? It should gradually be phased out as users update their Kafka versions
  • If we need special migration tools, describe them here. N/A
  • When will we remove the existing behavior? N/A

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