Lots of logs with "Resetting the last seen epoch of partition"

[joke]

Describe the bug

The kafka-channel-receiver is logging lots these Resetting the last seen epoch messages. As far as I understand the problem the client doesn't track the epoch of a topic partition.

This message is logged about every minute for every partition of every topic.

'@timestamp': '2024-05-03T20:24:51.406Z'
'@version': '1'
message: >-
  [Producer clientId=producer-3] Resetting the last seen epoch of partition
  knative-messaging-kafka.demo.sequence-kn-sequence-2-9 to 24 since the
  associated topicId changed from null to 2RdjCRMuRx2ylkDhntN0SA
logger_name: org.apache.kafka.clients.Metadata
thread_name: kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3
level: INFO
level_value: 20000

Expected behavior

If this is expected the log level should be decreased.

To Reproduce

Seems to be happening with v1.13.0 and releases before that.

Knative release version

v1.13.0

[Cali0707]

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/74655164 it looks like we need to make sure we set the topicId property correctly on our producer config

/triage accepted
/cc @pierDipi

[pierDipi]

I'm not sure we can actually influence that topicId

[pierDipi]

I think we can definitely bump our client libraries to the latest ones and see if something changes with the latest fixes