Add support for Kafka 4.2.1

[scholzj]

Type of change

• Task

Description

This PR adds support for Apache Kafka 4.2.1.

Checklist

• Make sure all tests pass
• Update documentation
• Try your changes from Pod inside your Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster, not just locally
• Update CHANGELOG.md

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 75.16%. Comparing base (151b17d) to head (be7b7c6).

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[scholzj]

/gha run pipeline=upgrade,regression,regression-fg

[github-actions]

⏳ System test verification started: link

The following 16 job(s) will be executed:

• regression-brokers-and-security-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-x86)
• regression-operators-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-x86)
• regression-operands-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-x86)
• regression-brokers-and-security-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-arm)
• regression-operators-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-arm)
• regression-operands-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-arm)
• upgrade-azp_kraft_upgrade-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-4-16-x86)
• upgrade-azp_kafka_upgrade-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-4-16-x86)
• upgrade-azp_kraft_upgrade-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-4-16-arm)
• upgrade-azp_kafka_upgrade-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-4-16-arm)
• regression-fg-brokers-and-security-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-x86)
• regression-fg-operators-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-x86)
• regression-fg-operands-amd64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-x86)
• regression-fg-brokers-and-security-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-arm)
• regression-fg-operators-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-arm)
• regression-fg-operands-arm64 (cncf-ubuntu-8-32-arm)

Tests will start after successful build completion.

[github-actions]

🎉 System test verification passed: link