v0.11.4

Enhancements and new features

• Avro Serializer and Deserializer
• Various performance improvements
• Moved to librdkafka v0.11.4

Fixes

• handle OperationCanceledException (#446)
• added single partition overloads for Assign (#417)
• Optimize topic handle lookup (#401)
• Structs and strings marshaling performance optimization (#403)
• use ThrowIfCancellationRequested to exit producer poll loop (#413)
• set produce.offset.report to true by default (#410)
• Load librdkafka automatically on Library.Version etc. (#392)

v0.11.3

Fixes

• Compatibility with Microsoft's dotnet core 2.0 docker images.

Enhancements

• Added IgnoreDeserializer.
• Added Consumer.Seek functionality.
• Added Consumer.StoreOffsets functionality.
• More flexible library loading functionality.

v0.11.2

This release of the .NET client references librdkafka v0.11.1 which contains a number of noteworthy critical bug fixes. For more information, refer to: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/releases/tag/v0.11.1

v0.11.0

Fixes

• Fixed a deadlock situation that was occurring during disposal of Producer instances after using async variants of the ProduceAsync method (#92).
• Fixed a null check related bug in Consumer.MemberId (#222).

Enhancements

• References librdkafka.redist v0.11.0 which includes support for the new Kafka message format (MsgVersion 2) which makes this client transparently compatible use with the EOS (Exactly-Once-Semantics) supporting Java client released with Apache Kafka v0.11.0. For more information refer to the librdkafka v0.11.0 release notes.
• Any exceptions thrown whilst deserializing consumed messages are now caught and more conveniently exposed via OnConsumeError events (#175).
• Additional bootstrap servers can now be added after construction of a Producer or Consumer using the new AddBrokers method (#209).
• A strong name version of the library is now build which is available on nuget.org as Confluent.Kafka.StrongName (#168).
• Obsoleted overloads of various methods on Producer and Consumer that can block indefinitely and can't be cancelled, enforcing use of variants with a timeout (#184).

This release includes external PRs from @zikifer, @andreycha and @treziac - thanks for your help! Also thanks to @chiru1205 for extensive testing under high load scenarios and @treziac once more for his valuable code reviews.

v0.9.5

Maintenance Release

Critical Fixes

• Resolves high CPU bug on Windows #87

Fixes

• timestamps are now correct in delivery reports and consumed messages.
• native library packaging related fixes.

Enhancements

• API Documentation is now complete.
• NullDeserializer now throws an exception if data is not null.
• IEnumerable is used in place of ICollection in various methods.
• Internal improvements to timestamp related functionality.
• Unnecessary events removed from ISerializingProducer interface.
• Added long serializer and deserializer.
• string serializer/deserializer now handles null values.
• now works on .NET framework 4.5 and above.
• moved to MSBuild
• added WatermarkOffsets.ToString method.

Thanks to @bjornicus, @MrGlenThomas, @wangyanjun and especially @treziac for their contributions to this release.