KIP-1043 — Administration of groups

Accepted Kafka 4.0 AdminConsumer

Adds unified group administration APIs and tooling (AdminClient and CLI) that work consistently across all group types (classic consumer, new consumer, share, streams, Connect worker groups) using a single DescribeGroups-style RPC that identifies group type. The existing tools and APIs were group-type-specific: kafka-consumer-groups.sh returned misleading errors for share groups, and there was no unified way to list or describe groups across all types.

Protocol Impact

DescribeGroups v6

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