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Rdkafka Changelog

0.18.0 (Unreleased)

  • [Breaking] Drop Ruby 3.0 support
  • [Enhancement] Use default oauth callback if none is passed (bachmanity1)
  • [Enhancement] Expose rd_kafka_global_init to mitigate macos forking issues.

0.17.6 (2024-09-03)

  • [Fix] Fix incorrectly behaving CI on failures.
  • [Fix] Fix invalid patches librdkafka references.

0.17.5 (2024-09-03)

  • [Patch] Patch with "Add forward declaration to fix compilation without ssl" fix

0.17.4 (2024-09-02)

  • [Enhancement] Bump librdkafka to 2.5.3
  • [Enhancement] Do not release GVL on rd_kafka_name (ferrous26)
  • [Fix] Fix unused variable reference in producer (lucasmvnascimento)

0.17.3 (2024-08-09)

  • [Fix] Mitigate a case where FFI would not restart the background events callback dispatcher in forks.

0.17.2 (2024-08-07)

  • [Enhancement] Support returning #details for errors that do have topic/partition related extra info.

0.17.1 (2024-08-01)

  • [Enhancement] Support ability to release patches to librdkafka.
  • [Patch] Patch cooperative-sticky assignments in librdkafka.

0.17.0 (2024-07-21)

  • [Enhancement] Bump librdkafka to 2.5.0

0.16.1 (2024-07-10)

  • [Feature] Add #seek_by to be able to seek for a message by topic, partition and offset (zinahia)
  • [Change] Remove old producer timeout API warnings.
  • [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

0.16.0 (2024-06-17)

  • [Breaking] Messages without headers returned by #poll contain frozen empty hash.
  • [Breaking] HashWithSymbolKeysTreatedLikeStrings has been removed so headers are regular hashes with string keys.
  • [Enhancement] Bump librdkafka to 2.4.0
  • [Enhancement] Save two objects on message produced and lower CPU usage on message produced with small improvements.
  • [Fix] Remove support for Ruby 2.7. Supporting it was a bug since rest of the karafka ecosystem no longer supports it.

0.15.2 (2024-07-10)

  • [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

0.15.1 (2024-05-09)

  • [Feature] Provide ability to use topic config on a producer for custom behaviors per dispatch.
  • [Enhancement] Use topic config reference cache for messages production to prevent topic objects allocation with each message.
  • [Enhancement] Provide Rrdkafka::Admin#describe_errors to get errors descriptions (mensfeld)

0.15.0 (2024-04-26)

  • [Feature] Oauthbearer token refresh callback (bruce-szalwinski-he)
  • [Feature] Support incremental config describe + alter API (mensfeld)
  • [Enhancement] name polling Thread as rdkafka.native_kafka#<name> (nijikon)
  • [Enhancement] Replace time poll based wait engine with an event based to improve response times on blocking operations and wait (nijikon + mensfeld)
  • [Enhancement] Allow for usage of the second regex engine of librdkafka by setting RDKAFKA_DISABLE_REGEX_EXT during build (mensfeld)
  • [Enhancement] name polling Thread as rdkafka.native_kafka#<name> (nijikon)
  • [Change] Allow for native kafka thread operations deferring and manual start for consumer, producer and admin.
  • [Change] The wait_timeout argument in AbstractHandle.wait method is deprecated and will be removed in future versions without replacement. We don't rely on it's value anymore (nijikon)
  • [Fix] Fix bogus case/when syntax. Levels 1, 2, and 6 previously defaulted to UNKNOWN (jjowdy)

0.14.11 (2024-07-10)

  • [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

0.14.10 (2024-02-08)

  • [Fix] Background logger stops working after forking causing memory leaks (mensfeld).

0.14.9 (2024-01-29)

  • [Fix] Partition cache caches invalid nil result for PARTITIONS_COUNT_TTL.
  • [Enhancement] Report -1 instead of nil in case partition_count failure.

0.14.8 (2024-01-24)

  • [Enhancement] Provide support for Nix OS (alexandriainfantino)
  • [Enhancement] Skip intermediate array creation on delivery report callback execution (one per message) (mensfeld)

0.14.7 (2023-12-29)

  • [Fix] Recognize that Karafka uses a custom partition object (fixed in 2.3.0) and ensure it is recognized.

0.14.6 (2023-12-29)

  • [Feature] Support storing metadata alongside offsets via rd_kafka_offsets_store in #store_offset (mensfeld)
  • [Enhancement] Increase the #committed default timeout from 1_200ms to 2000ms. This will compensate for network glitches and remote clusters operations and will align with metadata query timeout.

0.14.5 (2023-12-20)

  • [Enhancement] Provide label producer handler and report reference for improved traceability.

0.14.4 (2023-12-19)

  • [Enhancement] Add ability to store offsets in a transaction (mensfeld)

0.14.3 (2023-12-17)

  • [Enhancement] Replace rd_kafka_offset_store with rd_kafka_offsets_store (mensfeld)
  • [Fix] Missing ACL RD_KAFKA_RESOURCE_BROKER constant reference (mensfeld)
  • [Change] Rename matching_acl_pattern_type to matching_acl_resource_pattern_type to align the whole API (mensfeld)

0.14.2 (2023-12-11)

  • [Enhancement] Alias topic_name as topic in the delivery report (mensfeld)
  • [Fix] Fix return type on #rd_kafka_poll (mensfeld)
  • [Fix] uint8_t does not exist on Apple Silicon (mensfeld)

0.14.1 (2023-12-02)

  • [Feature] Add Admin#metadata (mensfeld)
  • [Feature] Add Admin#create_partitions (mensfeld)
  • [Feature] Add Admin#delete_group utility (piotaixr)
  • [Feature] Add Create and Delete ACL Feature To Admin Functions (vgnanasekaran)
  • [Enhancement] Improve error reporting on unknown_topic_or_part and include missing topic (mensfeld)
  • [Enhancement] Improve error reporting on consumer polling errors (mensfeld)

0.14.0 (2023-11-17)

  • [Enhancement] Bump librdkafka to 2.3.0
  • [Enhancement] Increase the #lag and #query_watermark_offsets default timeouts from 100ms to 1000ms. This will compensate for network glitches and remote clusters operations.

0.13.10 (2024-07-10)

  • [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

0.13.9 (2023-11-07)

  • [Enhancement] Expose alternative way of managing consumer events via a separate queue.
  • [Enhancement] Allow for setting statistics_callback as nil to reset predefined settings configured by a different gem.

0.13.8 (2023-10-31)

  • [Enhancement] Get consumer position (thijsc & mensfeld)

0.13.7 (2023-10-31)

  • [Change] Drop support for Ruby 2.6 due to incompatibilities in usage of ObjectSpace::WeakMap
  • [Fix] Fix dangling Opaque references.

0.13.6 (2023-10-17)

  • [Feature] Support transactions API in the producer
  • [Enhancement] Add raise_response_error flag to the Rdkafka::AbstractHandle.
  • [Enhancement] Provide #purge to remove any outstanding requests from the producer.
  • [Enhancement] Fix #flush does not handle the timeouts errors by making it return true if all flushed or false if failed. We do not raise an exception here to keep it backwards compatible.

0.13.5

  • Fix DeliveryReport create_result#error being nil despite an error being associated with it

0.13.4

  • Always call initial poll on librdkafka to make sure oauth bearer cb is handled pre-operations.

0.13.3

  • Bump librdkafka to 2.2.0

0.13.2

  • Ensure operations counter decrement is fully thread-safe
  • Bump librdkafka to 2.1.1

0.13.1

  • Add offsets_for_times method on consumer (timflapper)

0.13.0 (2023-07-24)

  • Support cooperative sticky partition assignment in the rebalance callback (methodmissing)
  • Support both string and symbol header keys (ColinDKelley)
  • Handle tombstone messages properly (kgalieva)
  • Add topic name to delivery report (maeve)
  • Allow string partitioner config (mollyegibson)
  • Fix documented type for DeliveryReport#error (jimmydo)
  • Bump librdkafka to 2.0.2 (lmaia)
  • Use finalizers to cleanly exit producer and admin (thijsc)
  • Lock access to the native kafka client (thijsc)
  • Fix potential race condition in multi-threaded producer (mensfeld)
  • Fix leaking FFI resources in specs (mensfeld)
  • Improve specs stability (mensfeld)
  • Make metadata request timeout configurable (mensfeld)
  • call_on_partitions_assigned and call_on_partitions_revoked only get a tpl passed in (thijsc)
  • Support #assignment_lost? on a consumer to check for involuntary assignment revocation (mensfeld)
  • Expose #name on the consumer and producer (mensfeld)
  • Introduce producer partitions count metadata cache (mensfeld)
  • Retry metadta fetches on certain errors with a backoff (mensfeld)
  • Do not lock access to underlying native kafka client and rely on Karafka granular locking (mensfeld)

0.12.4 (2024-07-10)

  • [Fix] Switch to local release of librdkafka to mitigate its unavailability.

0.12.3

  • Include backtrace in non-raised binded errors.
  • Include topic name in the delivery reports

0.12.2

  • Increase the metadata default timeout from 250ms to 2 seconds. This should allow for working with remote clusters.

0.12.1

  • Bumps librdkafka to 2.0.2 (lmaia)
  • Add support for adding more partitions via Admin API

0.12.0 (2022-06-17)

  • Bumps librdkafka to 1.9.0
  • Fix crash on empty partition key (mensfeld)
  • Pass the delivery handle to the callback (gvisokinskas)

0.11.0 (2021-11-17)

  • Upgrade librdkafka to 1.8.2
  • Bump supported minimum Ruby version to 2.6
  • Better homebrew path detection

0.10.0 (2021-09-07)

  • Upgrade librdkafka to 1.5.0
  • Add error callback config

0.9.0 (2021-06-23)

  • Fixes for Ruby 3.0
  • Allow any callable object for callbacks (gremerritt)
  • Reduce memory allocations in Rdkafka::Producer#produce (jturkel)
  • Use queue as log callback to avoid unsafe calls from trap context (breunigs)
  • Allow passing in topic configuration on create_topic (dezka)
  • Add each_batch method to consumer (mgrosso)

0.8.1 (2020-12-07)

  • Fix topic_flag behaviour and add tests for Metadata (geoff2k)
  • Add topic admin interface (geoff2k)
  • Raise an exception if @native_kafka is nil (geoff2k)
  • Option to use zstd compression (jasonmartens)

0.8.0 (2020-06-02)

  • Upgrade librdkafka to 1.4.0
  • Integrate librdkafka metadata API and add partition_key (by Adithya-copart)
  • Ruby 2.7 compatibility fix (by Geoff TheĢ)A
  • Add error to delivery report (by Alex Stanovsky)
  • Don't override CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS if already set on Mac (by Hiroshi Hatake)
  • Allow use of Rake 13.x and up (by Tomasz Pajor)

0.7.0 (2019-09-21)

  • Bump librdkafka to 1.2.0 (by rob-as)
  • Allow customizing the wait time for delivery report availability (by mensfeld)

0.6.0 (2019-07-23)

  • Bump librdkafka to 1.1.0 (by Chris Gaffney)
  • Implement seek (by breunigs)

0.5.0 (2019-04-11)

  • Bump librdkafka to 1.0.0 (by breunigs)
  • Add cluster and member information (by dmexe)
  • Support message headers for consumer & producer (by dmexe)
  • Add consumer rebalance listener (by dmexe)
  • Implement pause/resume partitions (by dmexe)

0.4.2 (2019-01-12)

  • Delivery callback for producer
  • Document list param of commit method
  • Use default Homebrew openssl location if present
  • Consumer lag handles empty topics
  • End iteration in consumer when it is closed
  • Add support for storing message offsets
  • Add missing runtime dependency to rake

0.4.1 (2018-10-19)

  • Bump librdkafka to 0.11.6

0.4.0 (2018-09-24)

  • Improvements in librdkafka archive download
  • Add global statistics callback
  • Use Time for timestamps, potentially breaking change if you rely on the previous behavior where it returns an integer with the number of milliseconds.
  • Bump librdkafka to 0.11.5
  • Implement TopicPartitionList in Ruby so we don't have to keep track of native objects.
  • Support committing a topic partition list
  • Add consumer assignment method

0.3.5 (2018-01-17)

  • Fix crash when not waiting for delivery handles
  • Run specs on Ruby 2.5

0.3.4 (2017-12-05)

  • Bump librdkafka to 0.11.3

0.3.3 (2017-10-27)

  • Fix bug that prevent display of RdkafkaError message

0.3.2 (2017-10-25)

  • add_topic now supports using a partition count
  • Add way to make errors clearer with an extra message
  • Show topics in subscribe error message
  • Show partition and topic in query watermark offsets error message

0.3.1 (2017-10-23)

  • Bump librdkafka to 0.11.1
  • Officially support ranges in add_topic for topic partition list.
  • Add consumer lag calculator

0.3.0 (2017-10-17)

  • Move both add topic methods to one add_topic in TopicPartitionList
  • Add committed offsets to consumer
  • Add query watermark offset to consumer

0.2.0 (2017-10-13)

  • Some refactoring and add inline documentation

0.1.x (2017-09-10)

  • Initial working version including producing and consuming