2.8.0-dev.1

Minor Version Features

• Added a deserializer kwarg to consumer components to facilitate unicode support
• Added a reset_offset_on_fetch kwarg to consumer components to support read-only
  consumption
• Changed the expected type of the consumer's consumer_group kwarg to str from bytes
• Changed the expected type of TopicDict.__getitem__'s parameter to str from bytes
• Added a pending_timeout_ms kwarg to Producer.__init__ to allow delivery report
  wait timeouts
• Added a serializer kwarg to Producer.__init__ to facilitate unicode support
• Deprecated the generation_id and consumer_id parameters on SimpleConsumer

Bugfixes

• Changed consumers to handle valid ascii strings for consumer group names instead of
  bytes
• Handled NoNodeException during consumer ZK node releases
• Used api_versions to select the version-appropriate implementation for
  OffsetFetchRequest
• Adjusted synchronous production logic to avoid infinite blocking when delivery report
  is lost
• Fixed a bug in FetchResponseV1 causing throttle_time to be returned as a tuple
  instead of an integer
• Implemented support for all current versions of OffsetFetchRequest and
  OffsetFetchResponse

Miscellaneous

• Used logging.NullHandler to remove nuisance logs
• Added stock unicode serde to utils
• Added README to pypi info