Confluent-kafka

- Added Python 3.13 wheels (1828).
- [KIP-848 EA](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-848%3A+The+Next+Generation+of+the+Consumer+Rebalance+Protocol): Admin API for listing consumer groups now has an optional filter to return only groups of given types (#1830).
- [KIP-460](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-460%3A+Admin+Leader+Election+RPC) Admin Leader Election RPC (#1818)
- Added Transactional id resource type for ACL operations (JohnPreston, 1834).

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.6.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.6.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

Fixes

* Fix an assert being triggered during push telemetry call when no metrics matched on the client side.
* Minor enhancement to JSONDeserializer to retrieve schema from Schema Registry if not provided

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.5.3, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.5.3)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- [KIP-107](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-107%3A+Add+deleteRecordsBefore%28%29+API+in+AdminClient) Added delete_records API. (#1710)
- Added an example to show the usage of the custom logger with `AdminClient`. (1758)
- Improve caching on Schema Registry client. (1744)
- Removed usage of `strcpy` to enhance security of the client. (1745)
- Removed support for centos6 and centos7. (1776)
- Fixed invalid write in `OAUTHBEARER/OIDC` extensions copy. (1745)
- Fixed documentation for default value of `operation_timeout` and `request_timeout` in various Admin apis. (1710)
- Fixed an issue related to import error of `TopicCollection` and `TopicPartitionInfo` classes when importing through other module like mypy. (1764)
- Fixed a segfault when `commit` or `store_offsets` consumer method is called incorrectly with errored Message object. (1754)
- Fixed `logger` not working when provided as an argument to `AdminClient` instead of a configuration property. (1758)
- Fixed some memory leaks related to `PyDict_SetItem`. (1710)

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.5.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.5.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- [KIP-848](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-848%3A+The+Next+Generation+of+the+Consumer+Rebalance+Protocol): Added KIP-848 based new consumer group rebalance protocol. The feature is an **Early Access**: not production ready yet. Please refer [detailed doc](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/blob/master/INTRODUCTION.md#next-generation-of-the-consumer-group-protocol-kip-848) for more information.
- Fix segfault with describe_topics and flaky connection (lpsinger, 1692)

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.4.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.4.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- Add Python 3.12 wheels
- [KIP-117](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-117%3A+Add+a+public+AdminClient+API+for+Kafka+admin+operations): Add support for AdminAPI `describe_cluster()` and `describe_topics()`. (jainruchir, #1635)
- [KIP-430](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-430+-+Return+Authorized+Operations+in+Describe+Responses):
Return authorized operations in Describe Responses. (jainruchir, 1635)
- [KIP-516](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-516%3A+Topic+Identifiers): Partial support of topic identifiers. Topic identifiers in metadata response are available through the new describe_topics function (#1645).
- [KIP-396](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=97551484): completed the implementation with the addition of `list_offsets` (#1576).
- Add `Rack` to the `Node` type, so AdminAPI calls can expose racks for brokers
(currently, all Describe Responses) (1635, jainruchir).
- Fix the Describe User Scram Credentials for Describe all users or empty users list. Please refer to
issue(https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python/issues/1616) for more details (#1630).

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.3.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.3.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.

- [KIP-339](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-339%3A+Create+a+new+IncrementalAlterConfigs+API)
IncrementalAlterConfigs API (1517).
- [KIP-554](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-554%3A+Add+Broker-side+SCRAM+Config+API):
User SASL/SCRAM credentials alteration and description (1575).
- Added documentation with an example of FIPS compliant communication with Kafka cluster.
- Fixed wrong error code parameter name in KafkaError.

confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka v2.2.0, see the
[librdkafka release notes](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/releases/tag/v2.2.0)
for a complete list of changes, enhancements, fixes and upgrade considerations.