[FLINK-17249] Bump universal Kafka connector to Kafka 2.2.2

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Ismael Juma
• Reporter: Ismael Juma
• Created: 20/Apr/20 01:18
• Updated: 21/Apr/20 12:38
• Resolved: 21/Apr/20 12:38

Description

Update the Kafka client dependency from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2 to integrate a number of fixes. The upgrade to 2.3.0 and onwards is more complicated due to Flink's usage of Kafka classes that are not public API for transactions integration (see FLINK-15362 for more details).