What's Changed

:tada: New Features / Improvements

• perf: Alloc records in batch by @ronanh in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/2646

:bug: Fixes

• fix(consumer): guard against nil client by @dnwe in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/2636
• fix(consumer): don't retry session if ctx canceled by @dnwe in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/2642
• fix: use least loaded broker to refresh metadata by @HaoSunUber in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/2645

:package: Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump the golang-org-x group with 1 update by @dependabot in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/2641

New Contributors

• @HaoSunUber made their first contribution in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/2645

Full Changelog: https://github.com/IBM/sarama/compare/v1.41.1...v1.41.2