deb-python-kafka/docs/changelog.rst

Changelog

1.3.3 (Unreleased)

Core / Protocol

• Fixed couple of "leaks" when gc is disabled (Mephius 979)
• Added max_bytes option and FetchRequest_v3 usage. (Drizzt1991 962)
• CreateTopicsRequest / Response v1 (dpkp 1012)
• Add MetadataRequest_v2 and MetadataResponse_v2 structures for KIP-78 (Drizzt1991 974)
• KIP-88 / KAFKA-3853: OffsetFetch v2 structs (jeffwidman 971)
• DRY-up the MetadataRequest_v1 struct (jeffwidman 966)
• Add JoinGroup v1 structs (jeffwidman 965)
• DRY-up the OffsetCommitResponse Structs (jeffwidman 970)
• DRY-up the OffsetFetch structs (jeffwidman 964)
• time --> timestamp to match Java API (jeffwidman 969)
• Add support for offsetRequestV1 messages (jlafaye 951)
• Add FetchRequest/Response_v3 structs (jeffwidman 943)
• Add CreateTopics / DeleteTopics Structs (jeffwidman 944)

Test Infrastructure

• Add python3.6 to travis test suite, drop python3.3 (exponea 992)
• Update to 0.10.1.1 for integration testing (dpkp 953)
• Update vendored berkerpeksag/selectors34 to ff61b82 (Mephius 979)
• Remove dead code (jeffwidman 967)
• Update pytest fixtures to new yield syntax (jeffwidman 919)

Consumer

• No longer configure a default consumer group (dpkp 1016)
• Dont refresh metadata on failed group coordinator request unless needed (dpkp 1006)
• Fail-fast on timeout constraint violations during KafkaConsumer creation (harelba 986)
• Default max_poll_records to Java default of 500 (jeffwidman 947)
• For 0.8.2, only attempt connection to coordinator if least_loaded_node succeeds (dpkp)

Producer

• change default timeout of KafkaProducer.close() to threading.TIMEOUT_MAX on py3 (mmyjona 991)

Client

• When closing a broker connection without error, fail in-flight-requests with Cancelled (dpkp 1010)
• Catch socket errors during ssl handshake (dpkp 1007)
• Drop old brokers when rebuilding broker metadata (dpkp 1005)
• Drop bad disconnect test -- just use the mocked-socket test (dpkp 982)
• Add support for Python built without ssl (minagawa-sho 954)
• Do not re-close a disconnected connection (dpkp)
• Drop unused last_failure time from BrokerConnection (dpkp)
• Use connection state functions where possible (dpkp)
• Pass error to BrokerConnection.close() (dpkp)

Bugfixes

• Fix sasl reconnect bug: auth future must be reset on close (dpkp 1003)
• Fix raise exception from SubscriptionState.assign_from_subscribed (qntln 960)
• Fix blackout calculation: mark last_attempt time during connection close (dpkp 1008)
• Fix buffer pool reallocation after raising timeout (dpkp 999)

Logging / Error Messages

• Add client info logging re bootstrap; log connection attempts to balance with close (dpkp)
• Minor additional logging for consumer coordinator (dpkp)
• Add more debug-level connection logging (dpkp)
• Do not need str(self) when formatting to %s (dpkp)
• Add new broker response errors (dpkp)
• Small style fixes in kafka.errors (dpkp)
• Include the node id in BrokerConnection logging (dpkp 1009)
• Replace %s with %r in producer debug log message (chekunkov 973)

Documentation

• Add sphinx formatting to hyperlink methods (jeffwidman 898)
• Fix BrokerConnection api_version docs default (jeffwidman 909)
• PEP-8: Spacing & removed unused imports (jeffwidman 899)
• Move BrokerConnection docstring to class (jeffwidman 968)
• Move docstring so it shows up in Sphinx/RTD (jeffwidman 952)
• Remove non-pip install instructions (jeffwidman 940)
• Spelling and grammar changes (melissacrawford396 923)
• Fix typo: coorelation --> correlation (jeffwidman 929)
• Make SSL warning list the correct Python versions (jeffwidman 924)
• Fixup comment reference to _maybe_connect (dpkp)
• Add ClusterMetadata sphinx documentation (dpkp)

Legacy Client

• Add send_list_offset_request for searching offset by timestamp (charsyam 1001)
• Use select to poll sockets for read to reduce CPU usage (jianbin-wei 958)
• Use select.select without instance bounding (adamwen829 949)

1.3.2 (Dec 28, 2016)

Core

• Add kafka.serializer interfaces (dpkp 912)
• from kafka import ConsumerRebalanceListener, OffsetAndMetadata
• Use 0.10.0.1 for integration tests (dpkp 803)

Consumer

• KAFKA-3007: KafkaConsumer max_poll_records (dpkp 831)
• Raise exception if given a non-str topic (ssaamm 824)
• Immediately update metadata for pattern subscription (laz2 915)

Producer

• Update Partitioners for use with KafkaProducer (barrotsteindev 827)
• Sort partitions before calling partitioner (ms7s 905)
• Added ssl_password config option to KafkaProducer class (kierkegaard13 830)

Client

• Always check for request timeouts (dpkp 887)
• When hostname lookup is necessary, do every connect (benauthor 812)

Bugfixes

• Fix errorcode check when socket.connect_ex raises an exception (guojh 907)
• Fix fetcher bug when processing offset out of range (sibiryakov 860)
• Fix possible request draining in ensure_active_group (dpkp 896)
• Fix metadata refresh handling with 0.10+ brokers when topic list is empty (sibiryakov 867)
• KafkaProducer should set timestamp in Message if provided (Drizzt1991 875)
• Fix murmur2 bug handling python2 bytes that do not ascii encode (dpkp 815)
• Monkeypatch max_in_flight_requests_per_connection when checking broker version (dpkp 834)
• Fix message timestamp_type (qix 828)

Logging / Error Messages

• Always include an error for logging when the coordinator is marked dead (dpkp 890)
• Only string-ify BrokerResponseError args if provided (dpkp 889)
• Update warning re advertised.listeners / advertised.host.name (jeffwidman 878)
• Fix unrecognized sasl_mechanism error message (sharego 883)

Documentation

• Add docstring for max_records (jeffwidman 897)
• Fixup doc references to max_in_flight_requests_per_connection
• Fix typo: passowrd --> password (jeffwidman 901)
• Fix documentation typo 'Defualt' -> 'Default'. (rolando 895)
• Added doc for max_poll_records option (Drizzt1991 881)
• Remove old design notes from Kafka 8 era (jeffwidman 876)
• Fix documentation typos (jeffwidman 874)
• Fix quota violation exception message (dpkp 809)
• Add comment for round robin partitioner with different subscriptions
• Improve KafkaProducer docstring for retries configuration

1.3.1 (Aug 8, 2016)

Bugfixes

• Fix AttributeError in BrokerConnectionMetrics after reconnecting

1.3.0 (Aug 4, 2016)

Incompatible Changes

• Delete KafkaConnection class (dpkp 769)
• Rename partition_assignment -> assignment in MemberMetadata for consistency
• Move selectors34 and socketpair to kafka.vendor (dpkp 785)
• Change api_version config to tuple; deprecate str with warning (dpkp 761)
• Rename _DEFAULT_CONFIG -> DEFAULT_CONFIG in KafkaProducer (dpkp 788)

Improvements

• Vendor six 1.10.0 to eliminate runtime dependency (dpkp 785)
• Add KafkaProducer and KafkaConsumer.metrics() with instrumentation similar to java client (dpkp 754 / 772 / 794)
• Support Sasl PLAIN authentication (larsjsol PR 779)
• Add checksum and size to RecordMetadata and ConsumerRecord (KAFKA-3196 / 770 / 594)
• Use MetadataRequest v1 for 0.10+ api_version (dpkp 762)
• Fix KafkaConsumer autocommit for 0.8 brokers (dpkp 756 / 706)
• Improve error logging (dpkp 760 / 759)
• Adapt benchmark scripts from https://github.com/mrafayaleem/kafka-jython (dpkp 754)
• Add api_version config to KafkaClient (dpkp 761)
• New Metadata method with_partitions() (dpkp 787)
• Use socket_options configuration to setsockopts(). Default TCP_NODELAY (dpkp 783)
• Expose selector type as config option (dpkp 764)
• Drain pending requests to the coordinator before initiating group rejoin (dpkp 798)
• Send combined size and payload bytes to socket to avoid potentially split packets with TCP_NODELAY (dpkp 797)

Bugfixes

• Ignore socket.error when checking for protocol out of sync prior to socket close (dpkp 792)
• Fix offset fetch when partitions are manually assigned (KAFKA-3960 / 786)
• Change pickle_method to use python3 special attributes (jpaulodit 777)
• Fix ProduceResponse v2 throttle_time_ms
• Always encode size with MessageSet (#771)
• Avoid buffer overread when compressing messageset in KafkaProducer
• Explicit format string argument indices for python 2.6 compatibility
• Simplify RecordMetadata; short circuit callbacks (#768)
• Fix autocommit when partitions assigned manually (KAFKA-3486 / #767 / #626)
• Handle metadata updates during consumer rebalance (KAFKA-3117 / #766 / #701)
• Add a consumer config option to exclude internal topics (KAFKA-2832 / #765)
• Protect writes to wakeup socket with threading lock (#763 / #709)
• Fetcher spending unnecessary time during metrics recording (KAFKA-3785)
• Always use absolute_import (dpkp)

Test / Fixtures

• Catch select errors while capturing test fixture logs
• Fix consumer group test race condition (dpkp 795)
• Retry fixture failures on a different port (dpkp 796)
• Dump fixture logs on failure

Documentation

• Fix misspelling of password (ssaamm 793)
• Document the ssl_password config option (ssaamm 780)
• Fix typo in KafkaConsumer documentation (ssaamm 775)
• Expand consumer.fetcher inline comments
• Update kafka configuration links -> 0.10.0.0 docs
• Fixup metrics_sample_window_ms docstring in consumer

1.2.5 (July 15, 2016)

Bugfixes

• Fix bug causing KafkaProducer to double-compress message batches on retry
• Check for double-compressed messages in KafkaConsumer, log warning and optionally skip
• Drop recursion in _unpack_message_set; only decompress once

1.2.4 (July 8, 2016)

Bugfixes

• Update consumer_timeout_ms docstring - KafkaConsumer raises StopIteration, no longer ConsumerTimeout
• Use explicit subscription state flag to handle seek() during message iteration
• Fix consumer iteration on compacted topics (dpkp PR 752)
• Support ssl_password config when loading cert chains (amckemie PR 750)

1.2.3 (July 2, 2016)

Patch Improvements

• Fix gc error log: avoid AttributeError in _unregister_cleanup (dpkp PR 747)
• Wakeup socket optimizations (dpkp PR 740)
• Assert will be disabled by "python -O" (tyronecai PR 736)
• Randomize order of topics/partitions processed by fetcher to improve balance (dpkp PR 732)
• Allow client.check_version timeout to be set in Producer and Consumer constructors (eastlondoner PR 647)

1.2.2 (June 21, 2016)

Bugfixes

• Clarify timeout unit in KafkaProducer close and flush (ms7s PR 734)
• Avoid busy poll during metadata refresh failure with retry_backoff_ms (dpkp PR 733)
• Check_version should scan nodes until version found or timeout (dpkp PR 731)
• Fix bug which could cause least_loaded_node to always return the same unavailable node (dpkp PR 730)
• Fix producer garbage collection with weakref in atexit handler (dpkp PR 728)
• Close client selector to fix fd leak (msmith PR 729)
• Tweak spelling mistake in error const (steve8918 PR 719)
• Rearrange connection tests to separate legacy KafkaConnection

1.2.1 (June 1, 2016)

Bugfixes

• Fix regression in MessageSet decoding wrt PartialMessages (#716)
• Catch response decode errors and log details (#715)
• Fix Legacy support url (#712 - JonasGroeger)
• Update sphinx docs re 0.10 broker support

1.2.0 (May 24, 2016)

Support Kafka 0.10 Features

• Add protocol support for ApiVersionRequest (dpkp PR 678)
• KAFKA-3025: Message v1 -- add timetamp and relative offsets (dpkp PR 693)
• Use Fetch/Produce API v2 for brokers >= 0.10 (uses message format v1) (dpkp PR 694)
• Use standard LZ4 framing for v1 messages / kafka 0.10 (dpkp PR 695)

Consumers

• Update SimpleConsumer / legacy protocol to handle compressed messages (paulcavallaro PR 684)

Producers

• KAFKA-3388: Fix expiration of batches sitting in the accumulator (dpkp PR 699)
• KAFKA-3197: when max.in.flight.request.per.connection = 1, attempt to guarantee ordering (dpkp PR 698)
• Don't use soon-to-be-reserved keyword await as function name (FutureProduceResult) (dpkp PR 697)

Clients

• Fix socket leaks in KafkaClient (dpkp PR 696)

Documentation

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Internals

• Support SSL CRL [requires python 2.7.9+ / 3.4+] (vincentbernat PR 683)
• Use original hostname for SSL checks (vincentbernat PR 682)
• Always pass encoded message bytes to MessageSet.encode()
• Raise ValueError on protocol encode/decode errors
• Supplement socket.gaierror exception in BrokerConnection.connect() (erikbeebe PR 687)
• BrokerConnection check_version: expect 0.9 to fail with CorrelationIdError
• Fix small bug in Sensor (zackdever PR 679)

1.1.1 (Apr 26, 2016)

Bugfixes

• Fix throttle_time_ms sensor handling (zackdever PR 667)
• Improve handling of disconnected sockets (EasyPost PR 666 / dpkp)
• Disable standard metadata refresh triggers during bootstrap (dpkp)
• More predictable Future callback/errback exceptions (zackdever PR 670)
• Avoid some exceptions in Coordinator.__del__ (dpkp PR 668)

1.1.0 (Apr 25, 2016)

Consumers

• Avoid resending FetchRequests that are pending on internal queue
• Log debug messages when skipping fetched messages due to offset checks
• KAFKA-3013: Include topic-partition in exception for expired batches
• KAFKA-3318: clean up consumer logging and error messages
• Improve unknown coordinator error handling
• Improve auto-commit error handling when group_id is None
• Add paused() API (zackdever PR 602)
• Add default_offset_commit_callback to KafkaConsumer DEFAULT_CONFIGS

Producers

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Clients

• Support SSL connections
• Use selectors module for non-blocking IO
• Refactor KafkaClient connection management
• Fix AttributeError in __del__
• SimpleClient: catch errors thrown by _get_leader_for_partition (zackdever PR 606)

Documentation

• Fix serializer/deserializer examples in README
• Update max.block.ms docstring
• Remove errant next(consumer) from consumer documentation
• Add producer.flush() to usage docs

Internals

• Add initial metrics implementation (zackdever PR 637)
• KAFKA-2136: support Fetch and Produce v1 (throttle_time_ms)
• Use version-indexed lists for request/response protocol structs (dpkp PR 630)
• Split kafka.common into kafka.structs and kafka.errors
• Handle partial socket send() (dpkp PR 611)
• Fix windows support (dpkp PR 603)
• IPv6 support (TimEvens PR 615; Roguelazer PR 642)

1.0.2 (Mar 14, 2016)

Consumers

• Improve KafkaConsumer Heartbeat handling (dpkp PR 583)
• Fix KafkaConsumer.position bug (stefanth PR 578)
• Raise TypeError when partition is not a TopicPartition (dpkp PR 587)
• KafkaConsumer.poll should sleep to prevent tight-loops (dpkp PR 597)

Producers

• Fix producer threading bug that can crash sender (dpkp PR 590)
• Fix bug in producer buffer pool reallocation (dpkp PR 585)
• Remove spurious warnings when closing sync SimpleProducer (twm PR 567)
• Fix FutureProduceResult.await() on python2.6 (dpkp)
• Add optional timeout parameter to KafkaProducer.flush() (dpkp)
• KafkaProducer optimizations (zackdever PR 598)

Clients

• Improve error handling in SimpleClient.load_metadata_for_topics (dpkp)
• Improve handling of KafkaClient.least_loaded_node failure (dpkp PR 588)

Documentation

• Fix KafkaError import error in docs (shichao-an PR 564)
• Fix serializer / deserializer examples (scribu PR 573)

Internals

• Update to Kafka 0.9.0.1 for integration testing
• Fix ifr.future.failure in conn.py (mortenlj PR 566)
• Improve Zookeeper / Kafka Fixture management (dpkp)

1.0.1 (Feb 19, 2016)

Consumers

• Add RangePartitionAssignor (and use as default); add assignor tests (dpkp PR 550)
• Make sure all consumers are in same generation before stopping group test
• Verify node ready before sending offset fetch request from coordinator
• Improve warning when offset fetch request returns unknown topic / partition

Producers

• Warn if pending batches failed during flush
• Fix concurrency bug in RecordAccumulator.ready()
• Fix bug in SimpleBufferPool memory condition waiting / timeout
• Support batch_size = 0 in producer buffers (dpkp PR 558)
• Catch duplicate batch.done() calls [e.g., maybe_expire then a response errback]

Clients

Documentation

• Improve kafka.cluster docstrings
• Migrate load_example.py to KafkaProducer / KafkaConsumer

Internals

• Don't override system rcvbuf or sndbuf unless configured explicitly (dpkp PR 557)
• Some attributes may not exist in __del__ if we failed assertions
• Break up some circular references and close client wake pipes on __del__ (aisch PR 554)

1.0.0 (Feb 15, 2016)

This release includes significant code changes. Users of older kafka-python versions are encouraged to test upgrades before deploying to production as some interfaces and configuration options have changed.

Users of SimpleConsumer / SimpleProducer / SimpleClient (formerly KafkaClient) from prior releases should migrate to KafkaConsumer / KafkaProducer. Low-level APIs (Simple*) are no longer being actively maintained and will be removed in a future release.

For comprehensive API documentation, please see python help() / docstrings, kafka-python.readthedocs.org, or run 'tox -e docs' from source to build documentation locally.

Consumers

• KafkaConsumer re-written to emulate the new 0.9 kafka consumer (java client) and support coordinated consumer groups (feature requires >= 0.9.0.0 brokers)
  • Methods no longer available:
    • configure [initialize a new consumer instead]
    • set_topic_partitions [use subscribe() or assign()]
    • fetch_messages [use poll() or iterator interface]
    • get_partition_offsets
    • offsets [use committed(partition)]
    • task_done [handled internally by auto-commit; or commit offsets manually]
  • Configuration changes (consistent with updated java client):
    • lots of new configuration parameters -- see docs for details
    • auto_offset_reset: previously values were 'smallest' or 'largest', now values are 'earliest' or 'latest'
    • fetch_wait_max_ms is now fetch_max_wait_ms
    • max_partition_fetch_bytes is now max_partition_fetch_bytes
    • deserializer_class is now value_deserializer and key_deserializer
    • auto_commit_enable is now enable_auto_commit
    • auto_commit_interval_messages was removed
    • socket_timeout_ms was removed
    • refresh_leader_backoff_ms was removed
• SimpleConsumer and MultiProcessConsumer are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users are encouraged to migrate to KafkaConsumer.

Producers

• new producer class: KafkaProducer. Exposes the same interface as official java client. Async by default; returned future.get() can be called for synchronous blocking
• SimpleProducer is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users are encouraged to migrate to KafkaProducer.

Clients

• synchronous KafkaClient renamed to SimpleClient. For backwards compatibility, you will get a SimpleClient via 'from kafka import KafkaClient'. This will change in a future release.
• All client calls use non-blocking IO under the hood.
• Add probe method check_version() to infer broker versions.

Documentation

• Updated README and sphinx documentation to address new classes.
• Docstring improvements to make python help() easier to use.

Internals

• Old protocol stack is deprecated. It has been moved to kafka.protocol.legacy and may be removed in a future release.
• Protocol layer re-written using Type classes, Schemas and Structs (modeled on the java client).
• Add support for LZ4 compression (including broken framing header checksum).

0.9.5 (Dec 6, 2015)

Consumers

• Initial support for consumer coordinator: offsets only (toddpalino PR 420)
• Allow blocking until some messages are received in SimpleConsumer (saaros PR 457)
• Support subclass config changes in KafkaConsumer (zackdever PR 446)
• Support retry semantics in MultiProcessConsumer (barricadeio PR 456)
• Support partition_info in MultiProcessConsumer (scrapinghub PR 418)
• Enable seek() to an absolute offset in SimpleConsumer (haosdent PR 412)
• Add KafkaConsumer.close() (ucarion PR 426)

Producers

• Catch client.reinit() exceptions in async producer (dpkp)
• Producer.stop() now blocks until async thread completes (dpkp PR 485)
• Catch errors during load_metadata_for_topics in async producer (bschopman PR 467)
• Add compression-level support for codecs that support it (trbs PR 454)
• Fix translation of Java murmur2 code, fix byte encoding for Python 3 (chrischamberlin PR 439)
• Only call stop() on not-stopped producer objects (docker-hub PR 435)
• Allow null payload for deletion feature (scrapinghub PR 409)

Clients

• Use non-blocking io for broker aware requests (ecanzonieri PR 473)
• Use debug logging level for metadata request (ecanzonieri PR 415)
• Catch KafkaUnavailableError in _send_broker_aware_request (mutability PR 436)
• Lower logging level on replica not available and commit (ecanzonieri PR 415)

Documentation

• Update docs and links wrt maintainer change (mumrah -> dpkp)

Internals

• Add py35 to tox testing
• Update travis config to use container infrastructure
• Add 0.8.2.2 and 0.9.0.0 resources for integration tests; update default official releases
• new pylint disables for pylint 1.5.1 (zackdever PR 481)
• Fix python3 / python2 comments re queue/Queue (dpkp)
• Add Murmur2Partitioner to kafka __all__ imports (dpkp Issue 471)
• Include LICENSE in PyPI sdist (koobs PR 441)

0.9.4 (June 11, 2015)

Consumers

• Refactor SimpleConsumer internal fetch handling (dpkp PR 399)
• Handle exceptions in SimpleConsumer commit() and reset_partition_offset() (dpkp PR 404)
• Improve FailedPayloadsError handling in KafkaConsumer (dpkp PR 398)
• KafkaConsumer: avoid raising KeyError in task_done (dpkp PR 389)
• MultiProcessConsumer -- support configured partitions list (dpkp PR 380)
• Fix SimpleConsumer leadership change handling (dpkp PR 393)
• Fix SimpleConsumer connection error handling (reAsOn2010 PR 392)
• Improve Consumer handling of 'falsy' partition values (wting PR 342)
• Fix _offsets call error in KafkaConsumer (hellais PR 376)
• Fix str/bytes bug in KafkaConsumer (dpkp PR 365)
• Register atexit handlers for consumer and producer thread/multiprocess cleanup (dpkp PR 360)
• Always fetch commit offsets in base consumer unless group is None (dpkp PR 356)
• Stop consumer threads on delete (dpkp PR 357)
• Deprecate metadata_broker_list in favor of bootstrap_servers in KafkaConsumer (dpkp PR 340)
• Support pass-through parameters in multiprocess consumer (scrapinghub PR 336)
• Enable offset commit on SimpleConsumer.seek (ecanzonieri PR 350)
• Improve multiprocess consumer partition distribution (scrapinghub PR 335)
• Ignore messages with offset less than requested (wkiser PR 328)
• Handle OffsetOutOfRange in SimpleConsumer (ecanzonieri PR 296)

Producers

• Add Murmur2Partitioner (dpkp PR 378)
• Log error types in SimpleProducer and SimpleConsumer (dpkp PR 405)
• SimpleProducer support configuration of fail_on_error (dpkp PR 396)
• Deprecate KeyedProducer.send() (dpkp PR 379)
• Further improvements to async producer code (dpkp PR 388)
• Add more configuration parameters for async producer (dpkp)
• Deprecate SimpleProducer batch_send=True in favor of async (dpkp)
• Improve async producer error handling and retry logic (vshlapakov PR 331)
• Support message keys in async producer (vshlapakov PR 329)
• Use threading instead of multiprocessing for Async Producer (vshlapakov PR 330)
• Stop threads on __del__ (chmduquesne PR 324)
• Fix leadership failover handling in KeyedProducer (dpkp PR 314)

KafkaClient

• Add .topics property for list of known topics (dpkp)
• Fix request / response order guarantee bug in KafkaClient (dpkp PR 403)
• Improve KafkaClient handling of connection failures in _get_conn (dpkp)
• Client clears local metadata cache before updating from server (dpkp PR 367)
• KafkaClient should return a response or error for each request - enable better retry handling (dpkp PR 366)
• Improve str/bytes conversion in KafkaClient and KafkaConsumer (dpkp PR 332)
• Always return sorted partition ids in client.get_partition_ids_for_topic() (dpkp PR 315)

Documentation

• Cleanup Usage Documentation
• Improve KafkaConsumer documentation (dpkp PR 341)
• Update consumer documentation (sontek PR 317)
• Add doc configuration for tox (sontek PR 316)
• Switch to .rst doc format (sontek PR 321)
• Fixup google groups link in README (sontek PR 320)
• Automate documentation at kafka-python.readthedocs.org

Internals

• Switch integration testing from 0.8.2.0 to 0.8.2.1 (dpkp PR 402)
• Fix most flaky tests, improve debug logging, improve fixture handling (dpkp)
• General style cleanups (dpkp PR 394)
• Raise error on duplicate topic-partition payloads in protocol grouping (dpkp)
• Use module-level loggers instead of simply 'kafka' (dpkp)
• Remove pkg_resources check for __version__ at runtime (dpkp PR 387)
• Make external API consistently support python3 strings for topic (kecaps PR 361)
• Fix correlation id overflow (dpkp PR 355)
• Cleanup kafka/common structs (dpkp PR 338)
• Use context managers in gzip_encode / gzip_decode (dpkp PR 337)
• Save failed request as FailedPayloadsError attribute (jobevers PR 302)
• Remove unused kafka.queue (mumrah)

0.9.3 (Feb 3, 2015)

• Add coveralls.io support (sontek PR 307)
• Fix python2.6 threading.Event bug in ReentrantTimer (dpkp PR 312)
• Add kafka 0.8.2.0 to travis integration tests (dpkp PR 310)
• Auto-convert topics to utf-8 bytes in Producer (sontek PR 306)
• Fix reference cycle between SimpleConsumer and ReentrantTimer (zhaopengzp PR 309)
• Add Sphinx API docs (wedaly PR 282)
• Handle additional error cases exposed by 0.8.2.0 kafka server (dpkp PR 295)
• Refactor error class management (alexcb PR 289)
• Expose KafkaConsumer in __all__ for easy imports (Dinoshauer PR 286)
• SimpleProducer starts on random partition by default (alexcb PR 288)
• Add keys to compressed messages (meandthewallaby PR 281)
• Add new high-level KafkaConsumer class based on java client api (dpkp PR 234)
• Add KeyedProducer.send_messages api (pubnub PR 277)
• Fix consumer pending() method (jettify PR 276)
• Update low-level demo in README (sunisdown PR 274)
• Include key in KeyedProducer messages (se7entyse7en PR 268)
• Fix SimpleConsumer timeout behavior in get_messages (dpkp PR 238)
• Fix error in consumer.py test against max_buffer_size (rthille/wizzat PR 225/242)
• Improve string concat performance on pypy / py3 (dpkp PR 233)
• Reorg directory layout for consumer/producer/partitioners (dpkp/wizzat PR 232/243)
• Add OffsetCommitContext (locationlabs PR 217)
• Metadata Refactor (dpkp PR 223)
• Add Python 3 support (brutasse/wizzat - PR 227)
• Minor cleanups - imports / README / PyPI classifiers (dpkp - PR 221)
• Fix socket test (dpkp - PR 222)
• Fix exception catching bug in test_failover_integration (zever - PR 216)

0.9.2 (Aug 26, 2014)

• Warn users that async producer does not reliably handle failures (dpkp - PR 213)
• Fix spurious ConsumerFetchSizeTooSmall error in consumer (DataDog - PR 136)
• Use PyLint for static error checking (dpkp - PR 208)
• Strictly enforce str message type in producer.send_messages (dpkp - PR 211)
• Add test timers via nose-timer plugin; list 10 slowest timings by default (dpkp)
• Move fetching last known offset logic to a stand alone function (zever - PR 177)
• Improve KafkaConnection and add more tests (dpkp - PR 196)
• Raise TypeError if necessary when encoding strings (mdaniel - PR 204)
• Use Travis-CI to publish tagged releases to pypi (tkuhlman / mumrah)
• Use official binary tarballs for integration tests and parallelize travis tests (dpkp - PR 193)
• Improve new-topic creation handling (wizzat - PR 174)

0.9.1 (Aug 10, 2014)

• Add codec parameter to Producers to enable compression (patricklucas - PR 166)
• Support IPv6 hosts and network (snaury - PR 169)
• Remove dependency on distribute (patricklucas - PR 163)
• Fix connection error timeout and improve tests (wizzat - PR 158)
• SimpleProducer randomization of initial round robin ordering (alexcb - PR 139)
• Fix connection timeout in KafkaClient and KafkaConnection (maciejkula - PR 161)
• Fix seek + commit behavior (wizzat - PR 148)

0.9.0 (Mar 21, 2014)

• Connection refactor and test fixes (wizzat - PR 134)
• Fix when partition has no leader (mrtheb - PR 109)
• Change Producer API to take topic as send argument, not as instance variable (rdiomar - PR 111)
• Substantial refactor and Test Fixing (rdiomar - PR 88)
• Fix Multiprocess Consumer on windows (mahendra - PR 62)
• Improve fault tolerance; add integration tests (jimjh)
• PEP8 / Flakes / Style cleanups (Vetoshkin Nikita; mrtheb - PR 59)
• Setup Travis CI (jimjh - PR 53/54)
• Fix import of BufferUnderflowError (jimjh - PR 49)
• Fix code examples in README (StevenLeRoux - PR 47/48)

0.8.0

• Changing auto_commit to False in [SimpleConsumer](kafka/consumer.py), until 0.8.1 is release offset commits are unsupported
• Adding fetch_size_bytes to SimpleConsumer constructor to allow for user-configurable fetch sizes
• Allow SimpleConsumer to automatically increase the fetch size if a partial message is read and no other messages were read during that fetch request. The increase factor is 1.5
• Exception classes moved to kafka.common