KIP-483 — Add Broker Version API in Admin Client
Discussion AdminProtocol
Proposes adding an `AdminClient.describeCluster()` extension or a dedicated API to expose the Kafka broker version (not just API version ranges) to client applications. While `ApiVersionsResponse` lists supported API version ranges, clients that need to make decisions based on the exact broker version (e.g., feature flag checks as in KIP-447) have no direct way to retrieve it.
Details
| Author | Boyang Chen |
| Status | Discussion |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2019-06-25 |
| Last Modified | 2019-06-25 |
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