[SPARK-25705] Remove Kafka 0.8 support in Spark 3.0.0

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Build, Structured Streaming
• Target Version/s: 3.0.0
• Assignee: Sean R. Owen
• Reporter: Sean R. Owen
• Created: 10/Oct/18 22:39
• Updated: 22/Jul/19 03:54
• Resolved: 16/Oct/18 14:10

Description

In the move to Spark 3.0, we're talking about removing support for old legacy connectors and versions of them. Kafka is about 2-3 major versions (depending on how you count it) on from Kafka 0.8, and should likely be retired.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #22703 (srowen)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #25221