confluent-kafka-python v2.6.2

v2.6.2 is a feature release with the following features, fixes and enhancements:

• Support for Data Contracts with Schema Registry, including
  • Data Quality rules
  • Data Transformation rules
  • Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE)
  • Schema Migration rules (requires Python 3.9+)
• Migrated the Schema Registry client from requests to httpx
• Add support for multiple URLs (#409)
• Allow configuring timeout (#622)
• Fix deletion semantics (#1127)
• Python deserializer can take SR client (#1174)
• Fix handling of Avro unions (#1562)
• Remove deprecated RefResolver for JSON (#1840)
• Support delete of subject version (#1851)

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.6.1, see the
librdkafka release notes
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.