Hello @Michael Ahrens ,
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Unfortunately, we don't have any information/ETA regarding the cluster with a higher Kafka version than 2.4.1.
Find more information about HDInsight officially supported component versions in What are the Apache Hadoop components and versions available with HDInsight?.
Appreciate if you could share the feedback on our Azure HDInsight feedback channel. Which would be open for the user community to upvote & comment on. This allows our product teams to effectively prioritize your request against our existing feature backlog and gives insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.
Regarding service general availability, I would suggest to keep an eye on Azure updates.
Azure updates provide information about important Azure product updates, roadmap, and announcements
Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.
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