Hi, thanks for reaching out.

What's the point? Have you encountered any problem? I'm thinking about multiple features

- Apache Kafka supports Java 17
- Ability to restart a connector's tasks on a single call in Kafka Connect
- Extend OffsetFetch requests to accept multiple group ids.
 So, you're using the app as API?

1. Good point, noted.
2. I feel like we might've done it within #1444 already. Is that right?
3. Okay.

 #1717  the feature to restart all tasks is buggy in 3.1.0 , let's wait for 3.1.1

-> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-13719?src=confmacro
Update kafka-clients dependency to 3.1.0
current version is Kafka version: 2.8.0

there is now the version 3.1.0
pom.xml
pom.xml
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e229c4959e2..2f307fdb5ad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         <org.projectlombok.version>1.18.20</org.projectlombok.version>
         <org.projectlombok.e2e-checks.version>1.18.20</org.projectlombok.e2e-checks.version>
         <git.revision>latest</git.revision>
-        <kafka-clients.version>2.8.0</kafka-clients.version>
+        <kafka-clients.version>3.2.0</kafka-clients.version>
         <node.version>v16.15.0</node.version>
         <pnpm.version>v7.4.0</pnpm.version>
         <dockerfile-maven-plugin.version>1.4.10</dockerfile-maven-plugin.version>
