v0.19.0

• [Breaking] Drop Ruby 3.0 support
• [Enhancement] Update librdkafka to 2.5.3
• [Enhancement] Use default oauth callback if none is passed (bachmanity1)
• [Fix] Fix incorrectly behaving CI on failures.
• [Patch] Patch with "Add forward declaration to fix compilation without ssl" fix

v0.18.0

• [Enhancement] Update librdkafka to 2.5.0
• [Enhancement] Do not release GVL on rd_kafka_name (ferrous26)
• [Patch] Patch cooperative-sticky assignments in librdkafka.
• [Fix] Mitigate a case where FFI would not restart the background events callback dispatcher in forks
• [Fix] Fix unused variable reference in producer (lucasmvnascimento)

v0.17.0

• [Feature] Add #seek_by to be able to seek for a message by topic, partition and offset (zinahia)
• [Enhancement] Update librdkafka to 2.4.0
• [Enhancement] Support ability to release patches to librdkafka.
• [Change] Remove old producer timeout API warnings.
• [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

v0.13.1

• [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

v0.12.1

• [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

v0.16.1

• [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

v0.15.2

• [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

v0.14.1

• [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

v0.16.0

• [Breaking] Retire support for Ruby 2.7.
• [Breaking] Messages without headers returned by #poll contain frozen empty hash.
• [Breaking] HashWithSymbolKeysTreatedLikeStrings has been removed so headers are regular hashes with string keys.
• [Feature] Support incremental config describe + alter API.
• [Feature] Oauthbearer token refresh callback (bruce-szalwinski-he)
• [Feature] Provide ability to use topic config on a producer for custom behaviors per dispatch.
• [Enhancement] Use topic config reference cache for messages production to prevent topic objects allocation with each message.
• [Enhancement] Provide Rrdkafka::Admin#describe_errors to get errors descriptions (mensfeld)
• [Enhancement] Replace time poll based wait engine with an event based to improve response times on blocking operations and wait (nijikon + mensfeld)
• [Enhancement] Allow for usage of the second regex engine of librdkafka by setting RDKAFKA_DISABLE_REGEX_EXT during build (mensfeld)
• [Enhancement] name polling Thread as rdkafka.native_kafka#<name> (nijikon)
• [Enhancement] Save two objects on message produced and lower CPU usage on message produced with small improvements.
• [Change] Allow for native kafka thread operations deferring and manual start for consumer, producer and admin.
• [Change] The wait_timeout argument in AbstractHandle.wait method is deprecated and will be removed in future versions without replacement. We don't rely on it's value anymore (nijikon)
• [Fix] Background logger stops working after forking causing memory leaks (mensfeld)
• [Fix] Fix bogus case/when syntax. Levels 1, 2, and 6 previously defaulted to UNKNOWN (jjowdy)

v0.16.0.rc1

• [Breaking] Retire support for Ruby 2.7.
• [Feature] Support incremental config describe + alter API.
• [Feature] Oauthbearer token refresh callback (bruce-szalwinski-he)
• [Feature] Provide ability to use topic config on a producer for custom behaviors per dispatch.
• [Enhancement] Use topic config reference cache for messages production to prevent topic objects allocation with each message.
• [Enhancement] Provide Rrdkafka::Admin#describe_errors to get errors descriptions (mensfeld)
• [Enhancement] Replace time poll based wait engine with an event based to improve response times on blocking operations and wait (nijikon + mensfeld)
• [Enhancement] Allow for usage of the second regex engine of librdkafka by setting RDKAFKA_DISABLE_REGEX_EXT during build (mensfeld)
• [Enhancement] name polling Thread as rdkafka.native_kafka#<name> (nijikon)
• [Change] Allow for native kafka thread operations deferring and manual start for consumer, producer and admin.
• [Change] The wait_timeout argument in AbstractHandle.wait method is deprecated and will be removed in future versions without replacement. We don't rely on it's value anymore (nijikon)
• [Fix] Background logger stops working after forking causing memory leaks (mensfeld)
• [Fix] Fix bogus case/when syntax. Levels 1, 2, and 6 previously defaulted to UNKNOWN (jjowdy)