Hi Guozhang, We can confirm the behavior with the 2.7.1 release. Appreciate all the help! Cheers, Upesh Upesh Desai | Senior Software Developer | udesai@itrsgroup.com www.itrsgroup.com From: Guozhang Wang <wangguoz@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 2:10 PM To: Users <users@kafka.apache.org> Cc: Bart Lilje <blilje@itrsgroup.com> Subject: Re: Kafka Streams Processor API state stores not restored via changelog topics Great, I think https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12323 is indeed the root cause then. Note that this is only an issue with punctuation triggered events, where `context.timestamp()` would return 0 (and it is fixed in the yet-to-release 2.7.1/2.8.0). You can consider applying the patch if you could on top of 2.7.0, or wait for the new release; OR, if your production code does not actually use punctuation to write records to K...