# librdkafka v1.8.0

librdkafka v1.8.0 is a security release:

 * Upgrade bundled zlib version from 1.2.8 to 1.2.11 in the `librdkafka.redist`
   NuGet package. The updated zlib version fixes CVEs:
   CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843
   See https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/issues/2934 for more information.
 * librdkafka now uses [vcpkg](https://vcpkg.io/) for up-to-date Windows
   dependencies in the `librdkafka.redist` NuGet package:
   OpenSSL 1.1.1l, zlib 1.2.11, zstd 1.5.0.
 * The upstream dependency (OpenSSL, zstd, zlib) source archive checksums are
   now verified when building with `./configure --install-deps`.
   These builds are used by the librdkafka builds bundled with
   confluent-kafka-go, confluent-kafka-python and confluent-kafka-dotnet.


## Enhancements

 * Producer `flush()` now overrides the `linger.ms` setting for the duration
   of the `flush()` call, effectively triggering immediate transmission of
   queued messages. (#3489)

## Fixes

### General fixes

 * Correctly detect presence of zlib via compilation check. (Chris Novakovic)
 * `ERR__ALL_BROKERS_DOWN` is no longer emitted when the coordinator
   connection goes down, only when all standard named brokers have been tried.
   This fixes the issue with `ERR__ALL_BROKERS_DOWN` being triggered on
   `consumer_close()`. It is also now only emitted if the connection was fully
   up (past handshake), and not just connected.
 * `rd_kafka_query_watermark_offsets()`, `rd_kafka_offsets_for_times()`,
   `consumer_lag` metric, and `auto.offset.reset` now honour
   `isolation.level` and will return the Last Stable Offset (LSO)
   when `isolation.level` is set to `read_committed` (default), rather than
   the uncommitted high-watermark when it is set to `read_uncommitted`. (#3423)
 * SASL GSSAPI is now usable when `sasl.kerberos.min.time.before.relogin`
   is set to 0 - which disables ticket refreshes (by @mpekalski, #3431).
 * Rename internal crc32c() symbol to rd_crc32c() to avoid conflict with
   other static libraries (#3421).
 * `txidle` and `rxidle` in the statistics object was emitted as 18446744073709551615 when no idle was known. -1 is now emitted instead. (#3519)


### Consumer fixes

 * Automatically retry offset commits on `ERR_REQUEST_TIMED_OUT`,
   `ERR_COORDINATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE`, and `ERR_NOT_COORDINATOR` (#3398).
   Offset commits will be retried twice.
 * Timed auto commits did not work when only using assign() and not subscribe().
   This regression was introduced in v1.7.0.
 * If the topics matching the current subscription changed (or the application
   updated the subscription) while there was an outstanding JoinGroup or
   SyncGroup request, an additional request would sometimes be sent before
   handling the response of the first. This in turn lead to internal state
   issues that could cause a crash or malbehaviour.
   The consumer will now wait for any outstanding JoinGroup or SyncGroup
   responses before re-joining the group.
 * `auto.offset.reset` could previously be triggered by temporary errors,
   such as disconnects and timeouts (after the two retries are exhausted).
   This is now fixed so that the auto offset reset policy is only triggered
   for permanent errors.
 * The error that triggers `auto.offset.reset` is now logged to help the
   application owner identify the reason of the reset.
 * If a rebalance takes longer than a consumer's `session.timeout.ms`, the
   consumer will remain in the group as long as it receives heartbeat responses
   from the broker.


### Admin fixes

 * `DeleteRecords()` could crash if one of the underlying requests
   (for a given partition leader) failed at the transport level (e.g., timeout).
   (#3476).



# librdkafka v1.7.0

librdkafka v1.7.0 is feature release:

 * [KIP-360](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=89068820) - Improve reliability of transactional producer.
   Requires Apache Kafka 2.5 or later.
 * OpenSSL Engine support (`ssl.engine.location`) by @adinigam and @ajbarb.


## Enhancements

 * Added `connections.max.idle.ms` to automatically close idle broker
   connections.
   This feature is disabled by default unless `bootstrap.servers` contains
   the string `azure` in which case the default is set to <4 minutes to improve
   connection reliability and circumvent limitations with the Azure load
   balancers (see #3109 for more information).
 * Bumped to OpenSSL 1.1.1k in binary librdkafka artifacts.
 * The binary librdkafka artifacts for Alpine are now using Alpine 3.12.
   OpenSSL 1.1.1k.
 * Improved static librdkafka Windows builds using MinGW (@neptoess, #3130).
 * The `librdkafka.redist` NuGet package now has updated zlib, zstd and
   OpenSSL versions (from vcpkg).


## Security considerations

 * The zlib version bundled with the `librdkafka.redist` NuGet package has now been upgraded
   from zlib 1.2.8 to 1.2.11, fixing the following CVEs:
   * CVE-2016-9840: undefined behaviour (compiler dependent) in inflate (decompression) code: this is used by the librdkafka consumer. Risk of successfully exploitation through consumed messages is eastimated very low.
   * CVE-2016-9841: undefined behaviour (compiler dependent) in inflate code: this is used by the librdkafka consumer. Risk of successfully exploitation through consumed messages is eastimated very low.
   * CVE-2016-9842: undefined behaviour in inflateMark(): this API is not used by librdkafka.
   * CVE-2016-9843: issue in crc32_big() which is called from crc32_z(): this API is not used by librdkafka.

## Upgrade considerations

 * The C++ `oauthbearer_token_refresh_cb()` was missing a `Handle *`
   argument that has now been added. This is a breaking change but the original
   function signature is considered a bug.
   This change only affects C++ OAuth developers.
 * [KIP-735](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-735%3A+Increase+default+consumer+session+timeout) The consumer `session.timeout.ms`
   default was changed from 10 to 45 seconds to make consumer groups more
   robust and less sensitive to temporary network and cluster issues.
 * Statistics: `consumer_lag` is now using the `committed_offset`,
   while the new `consumer_lag_stored` is using `stored_offset`
   (offset to be committed).
   This is more correct than the previous `consumer_lag` which was using
   either `committed_offset` or `app_offset` (last message passed
   to application).
 * The `librdkafka.redist` NuGet package is now built with MSVC runtime v140
   (VS 2015). Previous versions were built with MSVC runtime v120 (VS 2013).


## Fixes

### General fixes

 * Fix accesses to freed metadata cache mutexes on client termination (#3279)
 * There was a race condition on receiving updated metadata where a broker id
   update (such as bootstrap to proper broker transformation) could finish after
   the topic metadata cache was updated, leading to existing brokers seemingly
   being not available.
   One occurrence of this issue was query_watermark_offsets() that could return
   `ERR__UNKNOWN_PARTITION` for existing partitions shortly after the
   client instance was created.
 * The OpenSSL context is now initialized with `TLS_client_method()`
   (on OpenSSL >= 1.1.0) instead of the deprecated and outdated
   `SSLv23_client_method()`.
 * The initial cluster connection on client instance creation could sometimes
   be delayed up to 1 second if a `group.id` or `transactional.id`
   was configured (#3305).
 * Speed up triggering of new broker connections in certain cases by exiting
   the broker thread io/op poll loop when a wakeup op is received.
 * SASL GSSAPI: The Kerberos kinit refresh command was triggered from
   `rd_kafka_new()` which made this call blocking if the refresh command
   was taking long. The refresh is now performed by the background rdkafka
   main thread.
 * Fix busy-loop (100% CPU on the broker threads) during the handshake phase
   of an SSL connection.
 * Disconnects during SSL handshake are now propagated as transport errors
   rather than SSL errors, since these disconnects are at the transport level
   (e.g., incorrect listener, flaky load balancer, etc) and not due to SSL
   issues.
 * Increment metadata fast refresh interval backoff exponentially (@ajbarb, #3237).
 * Unthrottled requests are no longer counted in the `brokers[].throttle`
   statistics object.
 * Log CONFWARN warning when global topic configuration properties
   are overwritten by explicitly setting a `default_topic_conf`.

### Consumer fixes

 * If a rebalance happened during a `consume_batch..()` call the already
   accumulated messages for revoked partitions were not purged, which would
   pass messages to the application for partitions that were no longer owned
   by the consumer. Fixed by @jliunyu. #3340.
 * Fix balancing and reassignment issues with the cooperative-sticky assignor.
   #3306.
 * Fix incorrect detection of first rebalance in sticky assignor (@hallfox).
 * Aborted transactions with no messages produced to a partition could
   cause further successfully committed messages in the same Fetch response to
   be ignored, resulting in consumer-side message loss.
   A log message along the lines `Abort txn ctrl msg bad order at offset
   7501: expected before or at 7702: messages in aborted transactions may be delivered to the application`
   would be seen.
   This is a rare occurrence where a transactional producer would register with
   the partition but not produce any messages before aborting the transaction.
 * The consumer group deemed cached metadata up to date by checking
   `topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms`: if this property was set too low
   it would cause cached metadata to be unusable and new metadata to be fetched,
   which could delay the time it took for a rebalance to settle.
   It now correctly uses `metadata.max.age.ms` instead.
 * The consumer group timed auto commit would attempt commits during rebalances,
   which could result in "Illegal generation" errors. This is now fixed, the
   timed auto committer is only employed in the steady state when no rebalances
   are taking places. Offsets are still auto committed when partitions are
   revoked.
 * Retriable FindCoordinatorRequest errors are no longer propagated to
   the application as they are retried automatically.
 * Fix rare crash (assert `rktp_started`) on consumer termination
   (introduced in v1.6.0).
 * Fix unaligned access and possibly corrupted snappy decompression when
   building with MSVC (@azat)
 * A consumer configured with the `cooperative-sticky` assignor did
   not actively Leave the group on unsubscribe(). This delayed the
   rebalance for the remaining group members by up to `session.timeout.ms`.
 * The current subscription list was sometimes leaked when unsubscribing.

### Producer fixes

 * The timeout value of `flush()` was not respected when delivery reports
   were scheduled as events (such as for confluent-kafka-go) rather than
   callbacks.
 * There was a race conditition in `purge()` which could cause newly
   created partition objects, or partitions that were changing leaders, to
   not have their message queues purged. This could cause
   `abort_transaction()` to time out. This issue is now fixed.
 * In certain high-thruput produce rate patterns producing could stall for
   1 second, regardless of `linger.ms`, due to rate-limiting of internal
   queue wakeups. This is now fixed by not rate-limiting queue wakeups but
   instead limiting them to one wakeup per queue reader poll. #2912.

### Transactional Producer fixes

 * KIP-360: Fatal Idempotent producer errors are now recoverable by the
   transactional producer and will raise a `txn_requires_abort()` error.
 * If the cluster went down between `produce()` and `commit_transaction()`
   and before any partitions had been registered with the coordinator, the
   messages would time out but the commit would succeed because nothing
   had been sent to the coordinator. This is now fixed.
 * If the current transaction failed while `commit_transaction()` was
   checking the current transaction state an invalid state transaction could
   occur which in turn would trigger a assertion crash.
   This issue showed up as "Invalid txn state transition: .." crashes, and is
   now fixed by properly synchronizing both checking and transition of state.



# librdkafka v1.6.1

librdkafka v1.6.1 is a maintenance release.

## Upgrade considerations

 * Fatal idempotent producer errors are now also fatal to the transactional
   producer. This is a necessary step to maintain data integrity prior to
   librdkafka supporting KIP-360. Applications should check any transactional
   API errors for the is_fatal flag and decommission the transactional producer
   if the flag is set.
 * The consumer error raised by `auto.offset.reset=error` now has error-code
   set to `ERR__AUTO_OFFSET_RESET` to allow an application to differentiate
   between auto offset resets and other consumer errors.


## Fixes

### General fixes

 * Admin API and transactional `send_offsets_to_transaction()` coordinator
   requests, such as TxnOffsetCommitRequest, could in rare cases be sent
   multiple times which could cause a crash.
 * `ssl.ca.location=probe` is now enabled by default on Mac OSX since the
   librdkafka-bundled OpenSSL might not have the same default CA search paths
   as the system or brew installed OpenSSL. Probing scans all known locations.

### Transactional Producer fixes

 * Fatal idempotent producer errors are now also fatal to the transactional
   producer.
 * The transactional producer could crash if the transaction failed while
   `send_offsets_to_transaction()` was called.
 * Group coordinator requests for transactional
   `send_offsets_to_transaction()` calls would leak memory if the
   underlying request was attempted to be sent after the transaction had
   failed.
 * When gradually producing to multiple partitions (resulting in multiple
   underlying AddPartitionsToTxnRequests) subsequent partitions could get
   stuck in pending state under certain conditions. These pending partitions
   would not send queued messages to the broker and eventually trigger
   message timeouts, failing the current transaction. This is now fixed.
 * Committing an empty transaction (no messages were produced and no
   offsets were sent) would previously raise a fatal error due to invalid state
   on the transaction coordinator. We now allow empty/no-op transactions to
   be committed.

### Consumer fixes

 * The consumer will now retry indefinitely (or until the assignment is changed)
   to retrieve committed offsets. This fixes the issue where only two retries
   were attempted when outstanding transactions were blocking OffsetFetch
   requests with `ERR_UNSTABLE_OFFSET_COMMIT`. #3265





# librdkafka v1.6.0

librdkafka v1.6.0 is feature release:

 * [KIP-429 Incremental rebalancing](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-429%3A+Kafka+Consumer+Incremental+Rebalance+Protocol) with sticky
   consumer group partition assignor (KIP-54) (by @mhowlett).
 * [KIP-480 Sticky producer partitioning](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-480%3A+Sticky+Partitioner) (`sticky.partitioning.linger.ms`) -
   achieves higher throughput and lower latency through sticky selection
   of random partition (by @abbycriswell).
 * AdminAPI: Add support for `DeleteRecords()`, `DeleteGroups()` and
   `DeleteConsumerGroupOffsets()` (by @gridaphobe)
 * [KIP-447 Producer scalability for exactly once semantics](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-447%3A+Producer+scalability+for+exactly+once+semantics) -
   allows a single transactional producer to be used for multiple input
   partitions. Requires Apache Kafka 2.5 or later.
 * Transactional producer fixes and improvements, see **Transactional Producer fixes** below.
 * The [librdkafka.redist](https://www.nuget.org/packages/librdkafka.redist/)
   NuGet package now supports Linux ARM64/Aarch64.


## Upgrade considerations

 * Sticky producer partitioning (`sticky.partitioning.linger.ms`) is
   enabled by default (10 milliseconds) which affects the distribution of
   randomly partitioned messages, where previously these messages would be
   evenly distributed over the available partitions they are now partitioned
   to a single partition for the duration of the sticky time
   (10 milliseconds by default) before a new random sticky partition
   is selected.
 * The new KIP-447 transactional producer scalability guarantees are only
   supported on Apache Kafka 2.5 or later, on earlier releases you will
   need to use one producer per input partition for EOS. This limitation
   is not enforced by the producer or broker.
 * Error handling for the transactional producer has been improved, see
   the **Transactional Producer fixes** below for more information.


## Known issues

 * The Transactional Producer's API timeout handling is inconsistent with the
   underlying protocol requests, it is therefore strongly recommended that
   applications call `rd_kafka_commit_transaction()` and
   `rd_kafka_abort_transaction()` with the `timeout_ms` parameter
   set to `-1`, which will use the remaining transaction timeout.


## Enhancements

 * KIP-107, KIP-204: AdminAPI: Added `DeleteRecords()` (by @gridaphobe).
 * KIP-229: AdminAPI: Added `DeleteGroups()` (by @gridaphobe).
 * KIP-496: AdminAPI: Added `DeleteConsumerGroupOffsets()`.
 * KIP-464: AdminAPI: Added support for broker-side default partition count
   and replication factor for `CreateTopics()`.
 * Windows: Added `ssl.ca.certificate.stores` to specify a list of
   Windows Certificate Stores to read CA certificates from, e.g.,
   `CA,Root`. `Root` remains the default store.
 * Use reentrant `rand_r()` on supporting platforms which decreases lock
   contention (@azat).
 * Added `assignor` debug context for troubleshooting consumer partition
   assignments.
 * Updated to OpenSSL v1.1.1i when building dependencies.
 * Update bundled lz4 (used when `./configure --disable-lz4-ext`) to v1.9.3
   which has vast performance improvements.
 * Added `rd_kafka_conf_get_default_topic_conf()` to retrieve the
   default topic configuration object from a global configuration object.
 * Added `conf` debugging context to `debug` - shows set configuration
   properties on client and topic instantiation. Sensitive properties
   are redacted.
 * Added `rd_kafka_queue_yield()` to cancel a blocking queue call.
 * Will now log a warning when multiple ClusterIds are seen, which is an
   indication that the client might be erroneously configured to connect to
   multiple clusters which is not supported.
 * Added `rd_kafka_seek_partitions()` to seek multiple partitions to
   per-partition specific offsets.


## Fixes

### General fixes

 * Fix a use-after-free crash when certain coordinator requests were retried.
 * The C++ `oauthbearer_set_token()` function would call `free()` on
   a `new`-created pointer, possibly leading to crashes or heap corruption (#3194)

### Consumer fixes

 * The consumer assignment and consumer group implementations have been
   decoupled, simplified and made more strict and robust. This will sort out
   a number of edge cases for the consumer where the behaviour was previously
   undefined.
 * Partition fetch state was not set to STOPPED if OffsetCommit failed.
 * The session timeout is now enforced locally also when the coordinator
   connection is down, which was not previously the case.


### Transactional Producer fixes

 * Transaction commit or abort failures on the broker, such as when the
   producer was fenced by a newer instance, were not propagated to the
   application resulting in failed commits seeming successful.
   This was a critical race condition for applications that had a delay after
   producing messages (or sendings offsets) before committing or
   aborting the transaction. This issue has now been fixed and test coverage
   improved.
 * The transactional producer API would return `RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__STATE`
   when API calls were attempted after the transaction had failed, we now
   try to return the error that caused the transaction to fail in the first
   place, such as `RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__FENCED` when the producer has
   been fenced, or `RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__TIMED_OUT` when the transaction
   has timed out.
 * Transactional producer retry count for transactional control protocol
   requests has been increased from 3 to infinite, retriable errors
   are now automatically retried by the producer until success or the
   transaction timeout is exceeded. This fixes the case where
   `rd_kafka_send_offsets_to_transaction()` would fail the current
   transaction into an abortable state when `CONCURRENT_TRANSACTIONS` was
   returned by the broker (which is a transient error) and the 3 retries
   were exhausted.


### Producer fixes

 * Calling `rd_kafka_topic_new()` with a topic config object with
   `message.timeout.ms` set could sometimes adjust the global `linger.ms`
   property (if not explicitly configured) which was not desired, this is now
   fixed and the auto adjustment is only done based on the
   `default_topic_conf` at producer creation.
 * `rd_kafka_flush()` could previously return `RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__TIMED_OUT`
   just as the timeout was reached if the messages had been flushed but
   there were now no more messages. This has been fixed.




# librdkafka v1.5.3

librdkafka v1.5.3 is a maintenance release.

## Upgrade considerations

 * CentOS 6 is now EOL and is no longer included in binary librdkafka packages,
   such as NuGet.

## Fixes

### General fixes

 * Fix a use-after-free crash when certain coordinator requests were retried.
 * Coordinator requests could be left uncollected on instance destroy which
   could lead to hang.
 * Fix rare 1 second stalls by forcing rdkafka main thread wakeup when a new
   next-timer-to-be-fired is scheduled.
 * Fix additional cases where broker-side automatic topic creation might be
   triggered unexpectedly.
 * AdminAPI: The operation_timeout (on-broker timeout) previously defaulted to 0,
   but now defaults to `socket.timeout.ms` (60s).
 * Fix possible crash for Admin API protocol requests that fail at the
   transport layer or prior to sending.


### Consumer fixes

 * Consumer would not filter out messages for aborted transactions
   if the messages were compressed (#3020).
 * Consumer destroy without prior `close()` could hang in certain
   cgrp states (@gridaphobe, #3127).
 * Fix possible null dereference in `Message::errstr()` (#3140).
 * The `roundrobin` partition assignment strategy could get stuck in an
   endless loop or generate uneven assignments in case the group members
   had asymmetric subscriptions (e.g., c1 subscribes to t1,t2 while c2
   subscribes to t2,t3).  (#3159)
 * Mixing committed and logical or absolute offsets in the partitions
   passed to `rd_kafka_assign()` would in previous released ignore the
   logical or absolute offsets and use the committed offsets for all partitions.
   This is now fixed. (#2938)




# librdkafka v1.5.2

librdkafka v1.5.2 is a maintenance release.


## Upgrade considerations

 * The default value for the producer configuration property `retries` has
   been increased from 2 to infinity, effectively limiting Produce retries to
   only `message.timeout.ms`.
   As the reasons for the automatic internal retries vary (various broker error
   codes as well as transport layer issues), it doesn't make much sense to limit
   the number of retries for retriable errors, but instead only limit the
   retries based on the allowed time to produce a message.
 * The default value for the producer configuration property
   `request.timeout.ms` has been increased from 5 to 30 seconds to match
   the Apache Kafka Java producer default.
   This change yields increased robustness for broker-side congestion.


## Enhancements

 * The generated `CONFIGURATION.md` (through `rd_kafka_conf_properties_show())`)
   now include all properties and values, regardless if they were included in
   the build, and setting a disabled property or value through
   `rd_kafka_conf_set()` now returns `RD_KAFKA_CONF_INVALID` and provides
   a more useful error string saying why the property can't be set.
 * Consumer configs on producers and vice versa will now be logged with
   warning messages on client instantiation.

## Fixes

### Security fixes

 * There was an incorrect call to zlib's `inflateGetHeader()` with
   unitialized memory pointers that could lead to the GZIP header of a fetched
   message batch to be copied to arbitrary memory.
   This function call has now been completely removed since the result was
   not used.
   Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.


### General fixes

 * `rd_kafka_topic_opaque()` (used by the C++ API) would cause object
   refcounting issues when used on light-weight (error-only) topic objects
   such as consumer errors (#2693).
 * Handle name resolution failures when formatting IP addresses in error logs,
   and increase printed hostname limit to ~256 bytes (was ~60).
 * Broker sockets would be closed twice (thus leading to potential race
   condition with fd-reuse in other threads) if a custom `socket_cb` would
   return error.

### Consumer fixes

 * The `roundrobin` `partition.assignment.strategy` could crash (assert)
   for certain combinations of members and partitions.
   This is a regression in v1.5.0. (#3024)
 * The C++ `KafkaConsumer` destructor did not destroy the underlying
   C `rd_kafka_t` instance, causing a leak if `close()` was not used.
 * Expose rich error strings for C++ Consumer `Message->errstr()`.
 * The consumer could get stuck if an outstanding commit failed during
   rebalancing (#2933).
 * Topic authorization errors during fetching are now reported only once (#3072).

### Producer fixes

 * Topic authorization errors are now properly propagated for produced messages,
   both through delivery reports and as `ERR_TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED`
   return value from `produce*()` (#2215)
 * Treat cluster authentication failures as fatal in the transactional
   producer (#2994).
 * The transactional producer code did not properly reference-count partition
   objects which could in very rare circumstances lead to a use-after-free bug
   if a topic was deleted from the cluster when a transaction was using it.
 * `ERR_KAFKA_STORAGE_ERROR` is now correctly treated as a retriable
   produce error (#3026).
 * Messages that timed out locally would not fail the ongoing transaction.
   If the application did not take action on failed messages in its delivery
   report callback and went on to commit the transaction, the transaction would
   be successfully committed, simply omitting the failed messages.
 * EndTxnRequests (sent on commit/abort) are only retried in allowed
   states (#3041).
   Previously the transaction could hang on commit_transaction() if an abortable
   error was hit and the EndTxnRequest was to be retried.


*Note: there was no v1.5.1 librdkafka release*




# librdkafka v1.5.0

The v1.5.0 release brings usability improvements, enhancements and fixes to
librdkafka.

## Enhancements

 * Improved broker connection error reporting with more useful information and
   hints on the cause of the problem.
 * Consumer: Propagate errors when subscribing to unavailable topics (#1540)
 * Producer: Add `batch.size` producer configuration property (#638)
 * Add `topic.metadata.propagation.max.ms` to allow newly manually created
   topics to be propagated throughout the cluster before reporting them
   as non-existent. This fixes race issues where CreateTopics() is
   quickly followed by produce().
 * Prefer least idle connection for periodic metadata refreshes, et.al.,
   to allow truly idle connections to time out and to avoid load-balancer-killed
   idle connection errors (#2845)
 * Added `rd_kafka_event_debug_contexts()` to get the debug contexts for
   a debug log line (by @wolfchimneyrock).
 * Added Test scenarios which define the cluster configuration.
 * Added MinGW-w64 builds (@ed-alertedh, #2553)
 * `./configure --enable-XYZ` now requires the XYZ check to pass,
   and `--disable-XYZ` disables the feature altogether (@benesch)
 * Added `rd_kafka_produceva()` which takes an array of produce arguments
   for situations where the existing `rd_kafka_producev()` va-arg approach
   can't be used.
 * Added `rd_kafka_message_broker_id()` to see the broker that a message
   was produced or fetched from, or an error was associated with.
 * Added RTT/delay simulation to mock brokers.


## Upgrade considerations

 * Subscribing to non-existent and unauthorized topics will now propagate
   errors `RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR_UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PART` and
   `RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR_TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED` to the application through
   the standard consumer error (the err field in the message object).
 * Consumer will no longer trigger auto creation of topics,
   `allow.auto.create.topics=true` may be used to re-enable the old deprecated
   functionality.
 * The default consumer pre-fetch queue threshold `queued.max.messages.kbytes`
   has been decreased from 1GB to 64MB to avoid excessive network usage for low
   and medium throughput consumer applications. High throughput consumer
   applications may need to manually set this property to a higher value.
 * The default consumer Fetch wait time has been increased from 100ms to 500ms
   to avoid excessive network usage for low throughput topics.
 * If OpenSSL is linked statically, or `ssl.ca.location=probe` is configured,
   librdkafka will probe known CA certificate paths and automatically use the
   first one found. This should alleviate the need to configure
   `ssl.ca.location` when the statically linked OpenSSL's OPENSSLDIR differs
   from the system's CA certificate path.
 * The heuristics for handling Apache Kafka < 0.10 brokers has been removed to
   improve connection error handling for modern Kafka versions.
   Users on Brokers 0.9.x or older should already be configuring
   `api.version.request=false` and `broker.version.fallback=...` so there
   should be no functional change.
 * The default producer batch accumulation time, `linger.ms`, has been changed
   from 0.5ms to 5ms to improve batch sizes and throughput while reducing
   the per-message protocol overhead.
   Applications that require lower produce latency than 5ms will need to
   manually set `linger.ms` to a lower value.
 * librdkafka's build tooling now requires Python 3.x (python3 interpreter).


## Fixes

### General fixes

 * The client could crash in rare circumstances on ApiVersion or
   SaslHandshake request timeouts (#2326)
 * `./configure --LDFLAGS='a=b, c=d'` with arguments containing = are now
   supported (by @sky92zwq).
 * `./configure` arguments now take precedence over cached `configure` variables
   from previous invocation.
 * Fix theoretical crash on coord request failure.
 * Unknown partition error could be triggered for existing partitions when
   additional partitions were added to a topic (@benesch, #2915)
 * Quickly refresh topic metadata for desired but non-existent partitions.
   This will speed up the initial discovery delay when new partitions are added
   to an existing topic (#2917).


### Consumer fixes

 * The roundrobin partition assignor could crash if subscriptions
   where asymmetrical (different sets from different members of the group).
   Thanks to @ankon and @wilmai for identifying the root cause (#2121).
 * The consumer assignors could ignore some topics if there were more subscribed
   topics than consumers in taking part in the assignment.
 * The consumer would connect to all partition leaders of a topic even
   for partitions that were not being consumed (#2826).
 * Initial consumer group joins should now be a couple of seconds quicker
   thanks expedited query intervals (@benesch).
 * Fix crash and/or inconsistent subscriptions when using multiple consumers
   (in the same process) with wildcard topics on Windows.
 * Don't propagate temporary offset lookup errors to application.
 * Immediately refresh topic metadata when partitions are reassigned to other
   brokers, avoiding a fetch stall of up to `topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms`. (#2955)
 * Memory for batches containing control messages would not be freed when
   using the batch consume APIs (@pf-qiu, #2990).


### Producer fixes

 * Proper locking for transaction state in EndTxn handler.



# librdkafka v1.4.4

v1.4.4 is a maintenance release with the following fixes and enhancements:

 * Transactional producer could crash on request timeout due to dereferencing
   NULL pointer of non-existent response object.
 * Mark `rd_kafka_send_offsets_to_transaction()` CONCURRENT_TRANSACTION (et.al)
   errors as retriable.
 * Fix crash on transactional coordinator FindCoordinator request failure.
 * Minimize broker re-connect delay when broker's connection is needed to
   send requests.
 * Proper locking for transaction state in EndTxn handler.
 * `socket.timeout.ms` was ignored when `transactional.id` was set.
 * Added RTT/delay simulation to mock brokers.

*Note: there was no v1.4.3 librdkafka release*



# librdkafka v1.4.2

v1.4.2 is a maintenance release with the following fixes and enhancements:

 * Fix produce/consume hang after partition goes away and comes back,
   such as when a topic is deleted and re-created.
 * Consumer: Reset the stored offset when partitions are un-assign()ed (fixes #2782).
    This fixes the case where a manual offset-less commit() or the auto-committer
    would commit a stored offset from a previous assignment before
    a new message was consumed by the application.
 * Probe known CA cert paths and set default `ssl.ca.location` accordingly
   if OpenSSL is statically linked or `ssl.ca.location` is set to `probe`.
 * Per-partition OffsetCommit errors were unhandled (fixes #2791)
 * Seed the PRNG (random number generator) by default, allow application to
   override with `enable.random.seed=false` (#2795)
 * Fix stack overwrite (of 1 byte) when SaslHandshake MechCnt is zero
 * Align bundled c11 threads (tinycthreads) constants to glibc and musl (#2681)
 * Fix return value of rd_kafka_test_fatal_error() (by @ckb42)
 * Ensure CMake sets disabled defines to zero on Windows (@benesch)


*Note: there was no v1.4.1 librdkafka release*





# Older releases

See https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/releases
