Worked on aligning the Confluent Platform 8.0.x release with ZooKeeper deprecation by updating both the confluentinc/kafka-rest and confluentinc/rest-utils repositories. Focused on documentation and license management, this developer removed outdated ZooKeeper notices and references from license and notice files, ensuring that all documentation accurately reflected the removal of ZooKeeper dependencies. The approach emphasized cross-repository coordination to standardize deprecation messaging and maintain license hygiene, reducing compliance risk and streamlining packaging. Using text-based documentation skills and release management expertise, the work supported a clean release process and improved the accuracy of dependency tracking for future platform distributions.