[FLINK-33401] Kafka connector has broken version

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: kafka-3.0.1
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Yuxin Tan
• Reporter: Pavel Khokhlov
• Created: 30/Oct/23 15:20
• Updated: 14/Nov/23 08:57
• Resolved: 14/Nov/23 08:55

Description

Trying to run Flink 1.18 with Kafka Connector

but official documentation has a bug  

https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.18/docs/connectors/datastream/kafka/

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
    <artifactId>flink-connector-kafka</artifactId>
    <version>-1.18</version>
</dependency>

Basically version -1.18 doesn't exist.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: FLINK-33512 Update download link in doc of Kafka connector
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #64