Thanks, I confirm that I tested the strimzi canary RC1 image. The changes seem good to me.

I tested out the RC3 image, all seems good for our use-cases.

An issue has been discovered with in the Strimzi RC1 build. The root cause is a defect in new KIP-368 implementation within the latest release of Sarama 1.33.0 include in the Strimzi RC. The defect is