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Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

This feature is not backward compatible from API perspective and no changes need to be done to streaming apps. However, if kafka cluster is secured the cluster admin should grant required privileges to the streaming app as described below.

Zookeeper related config value, ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT_CONFIG in StreamsConfig, is deprecated.

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• Delete Topics (Without delete topic privilege streaming apps would still work if they don't have to delete topics.)Fetch topic metadata

User information need to be set the same way it is set in the streaming app if the cluster is secured.

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