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• Introduce new remote.max.partition.fetch.bytes consumer config, with default value to null. If not configured, fallback to use max.partition.fetch.bytes  value.
• Bump FetchRequest to v18 to add the RemotePartitionMaxBytes field to propagate the value configured on the consumer to the broker. 

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If the remote.max.partition.fetch.bytes is not configured / FETCH request is from the old client, then it fallbacks to the use the max.partition.fetch.bytes  config.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

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