Enhancements

• References librdkafka.redist 1.6.1. Refer to the 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 release notes for more information. Headline features:
  • KIP-429: Incremental rebalancing.
  • KIP-447: Producer scalability for exactly once semantics.
  • KIP-480: Sticky partitioner.
• KIP-22: Support for custom partitioners.
• Confluent.Kafka can now be used with Mono on Linux and MacOS. Note: Mono is not a supported runtime.
• The debian9-librdkafka.so build of librdkafka has been replaced with a more portable one: centos6-librdkafka.so (note: Debian 9 is still supported).
• Exceptions thrown by Producer.Produce now include an inner exception with additional context on the error (joostas).
• Added ConfigureAwait(false) to async methods in the Avro Serdes.
• Added IsInvalid property to Handle class (volgunin).

Fixes

• Fixed race condition in ProtobufSerializer (yurii-hunter).