0.9.3

• Add coveralls.io support (sontek PR 307)
• Fix python2.6 threading.Event bug in ReentrantTimer (dpkp PR 312)
• Add kafka 0.8.2.0 to travis integration tests (dpkp PR 310)
• Auto-convert topics to utf-8 bytes in Producer (sontek PR 306)
• Fix reference cycle between SimpleConsumer and ReentrantTimer (zhaopengzp PR 309)
• Add Sphinx API docs (wedaly PR 282)
• Handle additional error cases exposed by 0.8.2.0 kafka server (dpkp PR 295)
• Refactor error class management (alexcb PR 289)
• Expose KafkaConsumer in all for easy imports (Dinoshauer PR 286)
• SimpleProducer starts on random partition by default (alexcb PR 288)
• Add keys to compressed messages (meandthewallaby PR 281)
• Add new high-level KafkaConsumer class based on java client api (dpkp PR 234)
• Add KeyedProducer.send_messages api (pubnub PR 277)
• Fix consumer pending() method (jettify PR 276)
• Update low-level demo in README (sunisdown PR 274)
• Include key in KeyedProducer messages (se7entyse7en PR 268)
• Fix SimpleConsumer timeout behavior in get_messages (dpkp PR 238)
• Fix error in consumer.py test against max_buffer_size (rthille/wizzat PR 225/242)
• Improve string concat performance on pypy / py3 (dpkp PR 233)
• Reorg directory layout for consumer/producer/partitioners (dpkp/wizzat PR 232/243)
• Add OffsetCommitContext (locationlabs PR 217)
• Metadata Refactor (dpkp PR 223)
• Add Python 3 support (brutasse/wizzat - PR 227)
• Minor cleanups - imports / README / PyPI classifiers (dpkp - PR 221)
• Fix socket test (dpkp - PR 222)
• Fix exception catching bug in test_failover_integration (zever - PR 216)

0.9.2

• Warn users that async producer does not reliably handle failures (dpkp - PR 213)
• Fix spurious ConsumerFetchSizeTooSmall error in consumer (DataDog - PR 136)
• Use PyLint for static error checking (dpkp - PR 208)
• Strictly enforce str message type in producer.send_messages (dpkp - PR 211)
• Add test timers via nose-timer plugin; list 10 slowest timings by default (dpkp)
• Move fetching last known offset logic to a stand alone function (zever - PR 177)
• Improve KafkaConnection and add more tests (dpkp - PR 196)
• Raise TypeError if necessary when encoding strings (mdaniel - PR 204)
• Use Travis-CI to publish tagged releases to pypi (tkuhlman / mumrah)
• Use official binary tarballs for integration tests and parallelize travis tests (dpkp - PR 193)
• Improve new-topic creation handling (wizzat - PR 174)

0.9.1

• Add codec parameter to Producers to enable compression (patricklucas - #166)
• Support IPv6 hosts and network (snaury - #169)
• Remove dependency on distribute (patricklucas - #163)
• Fix connection error timeout and improve tests (wizzat - #158)
• SimpleProducer randomization of initial round robin ordering (alexcb - #139)
• Fix connection timeout in KafkaClient and KafkaConnection (maciejkula - #161)
• Fix seek + commit behavior (wizzat - #148)

0.9.0

• Connection refactor and test fixes (wizzat - #134)
• Fix when partition has no leader (mrtheb - #109)
• Change Producer API to take topic as send argument, not as instance variable (rdiomar - #111)
• Substantial refactor and Test Fixing (rdiomar - #88)
• Fix Multiprocess Consumer on windows (mahendra - #62)
• Improve fault tolerance; add integration tests (jimjh)
• PEP8 / Flakes / Style cleanups (Vetoshkin Nikita; mrtheb - #59)
• Setup Travis CI (jimjh - #53 / #54)
• Fix import of BufferUnderflowError (jimjh - #49)
• Fix code examples in README (StevenLeRoux - #47 / #48)