Rasa

_Pre-release version_

Features
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- [\8876](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/8876): Added `sasl_mechanism` as an optional configurable parameter for the `event-brokers-kafka`{.interpreted-text role="ref"}.

Features
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- [\8429](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/8429): Added partition\_by\_sender flag to Kafka Producer to optionally associate events with Kafka partition based on sender\_id.

Improvements
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- [\8345](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/8345): Improved the \[lock store\](lock-stores.mdx) debug log message when the process has to
queue because other messages have to be processed before this item.

Bugfixes
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- [\8019](https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/8019): Added `group_id` parameter back to `KafkaEventBroker` to fix error when instantiating event broker with a config containing the `group_id` parameter which is only relevant to the event consumer