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In this state the majority must include either voter 3, voter 4 or both voters 3 and 4. This means that leader cannot advance the HWM until at least either voter 3 or voter 4 have caught up to the HWM. In other words, the KRaft topic partition won't be able to commit new records until at least one of those two voters (3 or 4) have caughtare caught up to the HWM/LEO.

In 3., the leader will wait for its current epoch to commit by waiting for the LeaderChangeMessage to commit. This is required to guarantee that two competing voters set, the one from a previous leader and the one from the current leader, only differ by at most one voter. Waiting for the current epoch to commit means that there cannot be some other competing voters set from another leader that can later override this leader's new voters set. See bug in single-server membership changes for more details on this.

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