2.0.2 (Sep 29, 2020)
Consumer
- KIP-54: Implement sticky partition assignment strategy (aynroot / PR #2057)
- Fix consumer deadlock when heartbeat thread request timeout (huangcuiyang / PR #2064)
Compatibility
- Python 3.8 support (Photonios / PR #2088)
Cleanups
- Bump dev requirements (jeffwidman / PR #2129)
- Fix crc32c deprecation warning (crc32c==2.1) (jeffwidman / PR #2128)
- Lint cleanup (jeffwidman / PR #2126)
- Fix initialization order in KafkaClient (pecalleja / PR #2119)
- Allow installing crc32c via extras (mishas / PR #2069)
- Remove unused imports (jameslamb / PR #2046)
Admin Client
- Merge _find_coordinator_id methods (jeffwidman / PR #2127)
- Feature: delete consumergroups (swenzel / PR #2040)
- Allow configurable timeouts in admin client check version (sunnyakaxd / PR #2107)
- Enhancement for Kafka Admin Client's "Describe Consumer Group" (Apurva007 / PR #2035)
Protocol
- Add support for zstd compression (gabriel-tincu / PR #2021)
- Add protocol support for brokers 1.1.0 - 2.5.0 (gabriel-tincu / PR #2038)
- Add ProduceRequest/ProduceResponse v6/v7/v8 (gabriel-tincu / PR #2020)
- Fix parsing NULL header values (kvfi / PR #2024)
Tests
- Add 2.5.0 to automated CI tests (gabriel-tincu / PR #2038)
- Add 2.1.1 to build_integration (gabriel-tincu / PR #2019)
Documentation / Logging / Errors
- Disable logging during producer object gc (gioele / PR #2043)
- Update example.py; use threading instead of multiprocessing (Mostafa-Elmenbawy / PR #2081)
- Fix typo in exception message (haracejacob / PR #2096)
- Add kafka.structs docstrings (Mostafa-Elmenbawy / PR #2080)
- Fix broken compatibility page link (anuragrana / PR #2045)
- Rename README to README.md (qhzxc0015 / PR #2055)
- Fix docs by adding SASL mention (jeffwidman / #1990)