Confluent-kafka

- Add Client Credentials OAuth support for Schema Registry (1919)
- Add custom OAuth support for Schema Registry (1925)

confluent-kafka-python v2.9.0 is based on librdkafka v2.8.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.8.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- Fixed caching to ensure cached schema matches input. (1922)
- Fix handling of named Avro schemas (1928)

confluent-kafka-python v2.8.2 is based on librdkafka v2.8.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.8.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

Note: Versioning is skipped due to breaking change in v2.8.1.
Do not run software with v2.8.1 installed.

confluent-kafka-python v2.8.0 is based on librdkafka v2.8.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.8.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- Added missing dependency on googleapis-common-protos when using protobufs. (1881, tenzer)

confluent-kafka-python v2.7.0 is based on librdkafka v2.6.1, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.6.1)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

Note: This release modifies the dependencies of the Schema Registry client.
If you are using the Schema Registry client, please ensure that you install the
extra dependencies using the following syntax:


pip install confluent-kafka[schemaregistry]


or


pip install confluent-kafka[avro,schemaregistry]


Please see the [README.md](README.md) for more information.

- Support for Data Contracts with Schema Registry, including
- Data Quality rules
- Data Transformation rules
- Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE)
- Schema Migration rules (requires Python 3.9+)
- Migrated the Schema Registry client from requests to httpx
- Add support for multiple URLs (409)
- Allow configuring timeout (622)
- Fix deletion semantics (1127)
- Python deserializer can take SR client (1174)
- Fix handling of Avro unions (1562)
- Remove deprecated RefResolver for JSON (1840)
- Support delete of subject version (1851)

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.6.1, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.6.1)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- Migrated build system from `setup.py` to `pyproject.toml` in accordance with `PEP 517` and `PEP 518`, improving project configuration, build system requirements management, and compatibility with modern Python packaging tools like `pip` and `build`. (1592)
- Removed python 3.6 support. (1592)
- Added an example for OAUTH OIDC producer with support for confluent cloud (1769, sarwarbhuiyan)

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.6.1, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.6.1)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.