event.processing​.failure.handling.mode doesn't skip unparseable data events

MySql 1.2.3.Final. Please see Kafka Connect logs with stack traces attached.

I had a case where Debezium was unable to parse some data event. I wanted to make it continue replicating (even at a price of skipping this single failure event).

So I changed connector config to have event.processing​.failure.handling.mode = skip and restarted the task. But it did not work out.

Please see Kafka Connect logs attached. My comments, giving a bit more context, are enclosed into /* */ blocks.