Request: Roadmap / KIP-932 (Kafka Queues, Share Consumer) Support in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Binder

Hello,
I’d like to ask about the roadmap for Spring Cloud Stream, specifically regarding support for KIP-932 (Kafka Queues, share consumers).

Context:

• Kafka 4.0+ has introduced KIP-932 (“share groups”) in early access / preview form.
• Spring for Apache Kafka (spring-kafka 4.x) already provides experimental support for share consumers (e.g. ShareConsumerFactory, ShareKafkaMessageListenerContainer).
• Many of us using Spring Cloud Stream with the Kafka binder would benefit from being able to experiment with (and later adopt) the new share group / queue consumption model.

Questions:

• Is there a public roadmap for Spring Cloud Stream (Kafka binder in particular)?
• Are there plans or timelines to integrate support for KIP-932 / share consumers once the feature stabilizes in Kafka and Spring Kafka?

Why this matters:

KIP-932 opens new scaling and consumption models (queue-like semantics, cooperative multi-consumer partition consumption) that could be very valuable in microservice architectures using Spring Cloud Stream.

Looking forward to your guidance on the roadmap and how/when KIP-932 might be supported.

Start by reviewing the Spring Cloud Stream Kafka binder and the Spring Kafka share-consumer classes named in the issue, including ShareConsumerFactory and ShareKafkaMessageListenerContainer. The issue is asking for roadmap and timeline guidance rather than naming a file, test, or concrete implementation; done would require an explicit decision about KIP-932 support and its expected timing.