I feel like that is not necessary, I tend to look at the current documentation for open source tools usually unless I am explicitly working with something that requires an older version, so I guess the ssl guide is enough for 4.4.0 On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 12:10, Gergely Harmadás <harmadasg@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chia-Ping, > > The plan sounds good to me. Since the document is really outdated, should > we also backport it to older supported releases like 4.3 and 4.2, what do > you think? > > > Thanks, > Gergely > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 03:48, Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7712@apache.org> wrote: > > > I haven’t looked at the PR yet: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/23907 > > > > Doc fixes don’t need to wait for a release. Once the PR gets merged, we > > can file a patch to kafka-site to update the web site right away :) > > > > On 2026/10/21 22:01:28 Gergely Harmadás wrote: > > > Hi Alexander, > > > > > > I also went through the docs and indeed it contains outdated > > > information which can prevent you from setting up Kafka with SSL. I > have > > > opened KAFKA-21329 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-21329> > > to > > > work on updating the docs. It likely won't reach the official docs site > > > until the release of Kafka 4.5 which is still months away. In the > > meantime > > > you can check out my patch at kafka/pull/23907 > > > <https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/23907> and hopefully it can > > unblock > > > you in your SSL setup work. Of course any feedback is welcome on the > > > updated steps :) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Gergely > > > > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 at 17:43, Alexander Lehmann <alexlehm@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > I am currently trying to switch my Kafka test install to SSL by using > > the > > > > guide on the page Encryption and Authentication using SSL, however I > am > > > > failing to get anything working including the internal broker > > > > communication, while I have had some experience with using openssl, I > > have > > > > none using keytool, so I assume that I am missing steps that should > be > > > > obvious but are not mentioned in the guide or the guide does not > > completely > > > > fit to the requirements like it is based on a previous version of > Java > > that > > > > is deprecated now since some steps give an error about unsupported > > command > > > > parameters. > > > > > > > > Is it certain that the guide contains all steps necessary to actually > > get a > > > > dev installation of Kafka working with SSL? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Alexander > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Alexander Lehmann <alexlehm@gmail.com> > > > > https://links.lehmann.cx/ > > > > https://about.me/alexlehm > > > > > > > > > > -- Alexander Lehmann <alexlehm@gmail.com> https://links.lehmann.cx/ https://about.me/alexlehm
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