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     for more details.
   </td>
 </tr>
+<tr>
+  <td><code>spark.streaming.kafka.maxRetries</code></td>
+  <td>1</td>
+  <td>
+    Maximum number of consecutive retries the driver will make in order to find
+    the latest offsets on the leader of each partition (a default value of 1
+    means that the driver will make a maximum of 2 attempts). Only applies to
+    the new Kafka direct stream API.
+  </td>
+</tr>
 </table>
 
 #### Cluster Managers