THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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We need to enforce special access to these APIs to the end user who may not be in administrative role of Kafka Cluster. We shall allow a similar access level to the join group request, so the consumer service owner could easily use this API.
Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan
The fallback logic has been discussed previously. Broker with a lower version would just downgrade static membership towards dynamic membership.
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