⚠️ Known Issues

This release has been superceded by v1.26.4 and should not be used.

Fetch requests will cause the Kafka broker to continously allocate new Fetch sessions in its cache on every request. Fixed in v1.26.2 via https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/pull/1644

New Features:

• Enable zstd compression (1574,1582)
• Support headers in tools kafka-console-producer (1549)

Improvements:

• Add SASL AuthIdentity to SASL frames (authzid) (1585).

Bug Fixes:

• Sending messages with ZStd compression enabled fails in multiple ways (1252).
• Use the broker for any admin on BrokerConfig (1571).
• Set DescribeConfigRequest Version field (1576).
• ConsumerGroup flooding logs with client/metadata update req (1578).
• MetadataRequest version in DescribeCluster (1580).
• Fix deadlock in consumer group handleError (1581)
• Fill in the Fetch{Request,Response} protocol (1582).
• Retry topic request on ControllerNotAvailable (1586).