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kafka-python v1.4.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-05-26 // almost 6 years ago

  • Compatibility

    • 🛠 Fix for python 3.7 support: remove 'async' keyword from SimpleProducer (dpkp #1454)

    Client

    • 👌 Improve BrokerConnection initialization time (romulorosa #1475)
    • 📇 Ignore MetadataResponses with empty broker list (dpkp #1506)
    • 👌 Improve connection handling when bootstrap list is invalid (dpkp #1507)

    Consumer

    • Check for immediate failure when looking up coordinator in heartbeat thread (dpkp #1457)

    Core / Protocol

    • 🔒 Always acquire client lock before coordinator lock to avoid deadlocks (dpkp #1464)
    • ➕ Added AlterConfigs and DescribeConfigs apis (StephenSorriaux #1472)
    • 🛠 Fix CreatePartitionsRequest_v0 (StephenSorriaux #1469)
    • ➕ Add codec validators to record parser and builder for all formats (tvoinarovskyi #1447)
    • 🛠 Fix MemoryRecord bugs re error handling and add test coverage (tvoinarovskyi #1448)
    • 👮 Force lz4 to disable Kafka-unsupported block linking when encoding (mnito #1476)
    • Stop shadowing ConnectionError (jeffwidman #1492)

    📚 Documentation

    • Document methods that return None (jeffwidman #1504)
    • Minor doc capitalization cleanup (jeffwidman)
    • Adds add_callback/add_errback example to docs (Berkodev #1441)
    • ⏱ Fix KafkaConsumer docstring for request_timeout_ms default (dpkp #1459)

    ✅ Test Infrastructure

    • ✅ Skip flakey SimpleProducer test (dpkp)
    • 🛠 Fix skipped integration tests if KAFKA_VERSION unset (dpkp #1453)

    🌲 Logging / Error Messages

    • 🗄 Stop using deprecated log.warn() (jeffwidman)
    • 🔄 Change levels for some heartbeat thread logging (dpkp #1456)
    • 🌲 Log Heartbeat thread start / close for debugging (dpkp)