1.4.5 (Mar 14, 2019)

This release is primarily focused on addressing lock contention
and other coordination issues between the KafkaConsumer and the
background heartbeat thread that was introduced in the 1.4 release.

Consumer

• connections_max_idle_ms must be larger than request_timeout_ms (jeffwidman / PR #1688)
• Avoid race condition during close() / join heartbeat thread (dpkp / PR #1735)
• Use last offset from fetch v4 if available to avoid getting stuck in compacted topic (keithks / PR #1724)
• Synchronize puts to KafkaConsumer protocol buffer during async sends (dpkp / PR #1733)
• Improve KafkaConsumer join group / only enable Heartbeat Thread during stable group (dpkp / PR #1695)
• Remove unused skip_double_compressed_messages (jeffwidman / PR #1677)
• Fix commit_offsets_async() callback (Faqa / PR #1712)

Client

• Retry bootstrapping after backoff when necessary (dpkp / PR #1736)
• Recheck connecting nodes sooner when refreshing metadata (dpkp / PR #1737)
• Avoid probing broker versions twice on newer brokers (dpkp / PR #1738)
• Move all network connections and writes to KafkaClient.poll() (dpkp / PR #1729)
• Do not require client lock for read-only operations (dpkp / PR #1730)
• Timeout all unconnected conns (incl SSL) after request_timeout_ms (dpkp / PR #1696)

Admin Client

• Fix AttributeError in response topic error codes checking (jeffwidman)
• Fix response error checking in KafkaAdminClient send_to_controller (jeffwidman)
• Fix NotControllerError check (jeffwidman)

Core/Protocol

• Fix default protocol parser version / 0.8.2 version probe (dpkp / PR #1740)
• Make NotEnoughReplicasError/NotEnoughReplicasAfterAppendError retriable (le-linh / PR #1722)

Bugfixes

• Use copy() in metrics() to avoid thread safety issues (emeric254 / PR #1682)

Test Infrastructure

• Mock dns lookups in test_conn (dpkp / PR #1739)
• Use test.fixtures.version not test.conftest.version to avoid warnings (dpkp / PR #1731)
• Fix test_legacy_correct_metadata_response on x86 arch (stanislavlevin / PR #1718)
• Travis CI: 'sudo' tag is now deprecated in Travis (cclauss / PR #1698)
• Use Popen.communicate() instead of Popen.wait() (Baisang / PR #1689)

Compatibility

• Catch thrown OSError by python 3.7 when creating a connection (danjo133 / PR #1694)
• Update travis test coverage: 2.7, 3.4, 3.7, pypy2.7 (jeffwidman, dpkp / PR #1614)
• Drop dependency on sphinxcontrib-napoleon (stanislavlevin / PR #1715)
• Remove unused import from kafka/producer/record_accumulator.py (jeffwidman / PR #1705)
• Fix SSL connection testing in Python 3.7 (seanthegeek, silentben / PR #1669)