See librdkafka v0.11.6 release notes for enhancements and fixes in librdkafka.

New Features

• Confluent Monitoring Interceptors are now included with Linux and OSX binary wheel distributions. (#464)
• Experimental binary wheel distributions for Windows environments. (#451)

Enhancements

• OpenSSL version bump to 1.0.2p. (#437)
• Topic configurations have been moved into the global configuration dictionary to simplify configuration. The property default.topic.configuration has been deprecated and will be removed in 1.0, but still has precedence to topic configuration specified in the global configuration dictionary. (#446)

Fixes

• Handle debug configuration property prior to plugin.library.paths for enhanced debugging. (#464)
• Fix memory leak in message headers. (#458)
• Safely release handler resources. (#434, @coldeasy)