Version 1.45.1 (2025-03-02)

What's Changed

🎉 New Features / Improvements

• feat(producer): add MaxBufferBytes to limit retry buffer size by @wanwenli in #3088
• feat(producer): add sync pool for channel reuse by @kasimtj in #3109
• feat: exponential backoff for clients (KIP-580) by @wanwenli in #3099

🐛 Fixes

• fix(sasl): add nilguard around token to prevent panic by @hoo47 in #3076
• fix(test): consumer group fetch request messages by @stsmurf in #3081
• fix: remove redundant nil check by @knbr13 in #3089
• fix(consumer): add recovery from no leader partitions by @liutao365 in #3101
• produce: set MaxTimestamp by @rockwotj in #3108

📦 Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel from 1.24.0 to 1.29.0 in /examples/interceptors by @dependabot in #3071
• chore(deps): bump the otel group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3072
• chore(deps): bump the golang-x group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3098

🔧 Maintenance

• chore(deps): prevent otel upgrades for now by @dnwe in #3069
• chore: add version constant for kafka 3.7.2 by @dnwe in #3073
• chore(ci): fetch kafka 4.0 via tar.gz rather than git by @dnwe in #3079
• fix(ci): tighten up github workflows by @dnwe in #3080
• chore(ci): analyse actions in codeql by @dnwe in #3085
• chore(ci): bump golangci-lint version to v1.63.4 by @dnwe in #3090
• feat(ci): add dedicated staticcheck run by @dnwe in #3091

New Contributors

• @hoo47 made their first contribution in #3076
• @stsmurf made their first contribution in #3081
• @knbr13 made their first contribution in #3089
• @liutao365 made their first contribution in #3101
• @rockwotj made their first contribution in #3108
• @kasimtj made their first contribution in #3109

Full Changelog: v1.45.0...v1.45.1