Changes between 5.11.0 and 5.12.0.RC1

This is a pre-release for 5.12.0, a maintenance release with usability improvements and dependency upgrades. All users of the 5.x.x series are encouraged to test this version.

Thanks to @vikinghawk, @gustf, and @captainju for their contribution.

Consumer recovery retry needs to return the new consumer tag

GitHub PR: #680

Improvements to topology recovery retry logic

GitHub PR: #678

Add support for reading unsigned int "i"

GitHub PR: #675

Add support for reading unsigned short "u"

GitHub PR: #674

Handle basic query parameters in connection URI

GitHub PR: #672

Bump dependencies

GitHub issue: #681