kafka-python is compatible with (and tested against) broker versions 4.0 through 0.8.0 . kafka-python is not compatible with the 0.8.2-beta release.
Because the kafka server protocol is backwards compatible, kafka-python is expected to work with newer broker releases as well.
Although kafka-python is tested and expected to work on recent broker versions, not all features are supported. Please see github open issues for feature tracking. PRs welcome!
kafka-python is tested on python 3.8-3.14. python 2.7 was supported through kafka-python release 2.3.
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