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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 by the kafka  (aka core ) module from Apache Kafka 4.0 and the artifact name should be changed to be simply kafka  (i.e. the Scala version suffix would will be removed).

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