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, 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