[FLINK-34244] Upgrade Confluent Platform to latest compatible version

• Type: Technical Debt
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: kafka-3.1.0, 1.19.0
• Fix Version/s: kafka-3.2.0, 1.20.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka, Formats (JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, SequenceFile)
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Martijn Visser
• Reporter: Martijn Visser
• Created: 26/Jan/24 15:06
• Updated: 09/Feb/24 07:53
• Resolved: 09/Feb/24 07:53

Description

Flink uses Confluent Platform for its Confluent Avro Schema Registry implementation, and we can update that to the latest version.

It's also used by the Flink Kafka connector, and we should upgrade it to the latest compatible version of the used Kafka Client (in this case, 7.4.x)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #81
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #24202