2.0.2 (Sep 29, 2020)

Consumer

• KIP-54: Implement sticky partition assignment strategy (aynroot / PR #2057)
• Fix consumer deadlock when heartbeat thread request timeout (huangcuiyang / PR #2064)

Compatibility

• Python 3.8 support (Photonios / PR #2088)

Cleanups

• Bump dev requirements (jeffwidman / PR #2129)
• Fix crc32c deprecation warning (crc32c==2.1) (jeffwidman / PR #2128)
• Lint cleanup (jeffwidman / PR #2126)
• Fix initialization order in KafkaClient (pecalleja / PR #2119)
• Allow installing crc32c via extras (mishas / PR #2069)
• Remove unused imports (jameslamb / PR #2046)

Admin Client

• Merge _find_coordinator_id methods (jeffwidman / PR #2127)
• Feature: delete consumergroups (swenzel / PR #2040)
• Allow configurable timeouts in admin client check version (sunnyakaxd / PR #2107)
• Enhancement for Kafka Admin Client's "Describe Consumer Group" (Apurva007 / PR #2035)

Protocol

• Add support for zstd compression (gabriel-tincu / PR #2021)
• Add protocol support for brokers 1.1.0 - 2.5.0 (gabriel-tincu / PR #2038)
• Add ProduceRequest/ProduceResponse v6/v7/v8 (gabriel-tincu / PR #2020)
• Fix parsing NULL header values (kvfi / PR #2024)

Tests

• Add 2.5.0 to automated CI tests (gabriel-tincu / PR #2038)
• Add 2.1.1 to build_integration (gabriel-tincu / PR #2019)

Documentation / Logging / Errors

• Disable logging during producer object gc (gioele / PR #2043)
• Update example.py; use threading instead of multiprocessing (Mostafa-Elmenbawy / PR #2081)
• Fix typo in exception message (haracejacob / PR #2096)
• Add kafka.structs docstrings (Mostafa-Elmenbawy / PR #2080)
• Fix broken compatibility page link (anuragrana / PR #2045)
• Rename README to README.md (qhzxc0015 / PR #2055)
• Fix docs by adding SASL mention (jeffwidman / #1990)