Hi everyone! There is connectivity issue with ZooKeeper in the latest release of Java client lib (1.2.0) , and causes any call to

ConnectionFactory.fromZookeeper(zkServers)

to block forever. Apparently, the issue is due to the latest version of zkClient library (0.11). I tested older version of Pinot client (0.9.3) relying on previous versions of zkClient (0.7) and everything worked fine. I have also opened an issue on GH https://github.com/apache/pinot/issues/15074 . A couple of workaround comes to my mind and I wanted to know your perspective on this and how we can tackle it. First, this repo https://github.com/sgroschupf/zkclient seems abandoned and we may not expect any fix for this issue from their side. We have the option to use the implementation provided by Apache Helix - zkClient . Second, we can remove the dependency to this lib and write a compatible wrapper using latest official zookeeper client.