2.0.6 (Mar 4, 2025)

Networking

• Improve error handling in client._maybe_connect (#2504)
• Client connection / maybe_refresh_metadata changes (#2507)
• Improve too-large timeout handling in client poll
• Default client.check_version timeout to api_version_auto_timeout_ms (#2496)

Fixes

• Decode and skip transactional control records in consumer (#2499)
• try / except in consumer coordinator __del__

Testing

• test_conn fixup for py2

Project Maintenance

• Add 2.0 branch for backports