diff --git a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/RecordMetadata.java b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/RecordMetadata.java
index 988da16addf97..00a4374ef5543 100644
--- a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/RecordMetadata.java
+++ b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/RecordMetadata.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.apache.kafka.clients.producer;
 
 import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
+import org.apache.kafka.common.record.Record;
 
 /**
  * The metadata for a record that has been acknowledged by the server
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ private RecordMetadata(TopicPartition topicPartition, long offset, long timestam
         this.topicPartition = topicPartition;
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
+    public RecordMetadata(TopicPartition topicPartition, long baseOffset, long relativeOffset) {
+        this(topicPartition, baseOffset, relativeOffset, Record.NO_TIMESTAMP, -1, -1, -1);
+    }
+
     public RecordMetadata(TopicPartition topicPartition, long baseOffset, long relativeOffset,
                           long timestamp, long checksum, int serializedKeySize, int serializedValueSize) {
         // ignore the relativeOffset if the base offset is -1,