v0.6.0

New Features

• Timestamps added to CLI commands (#283), thanks to @davorrunje

• Added option to process messages concurrently (#278), thanks to @Sternakt

  • A new executor option is added that supports either sequential processing for tasks with small latencies or concurrent processing for tasks with larger latencies.

• Add consumes and produces functions to app (#274), thanks to @Sternakt

• Add batching for producers (#273), thanks to @Sternakt

  • requirement(batch): batch support is a real need! and i see it on the issue list.... so hope we do not need to wait too long

    https://discord.com/channels/1085457301214855171/1090956337938182266/1098592795557630063

• Fix broken links in guides (#272), thanks to @harishmohanraj

• Generate the docusaurus sidebar dynamically by parsing summary.md (#270), thanks to @harishmohanraj

• Metadata passed to consumer (#269), thanks to @Sternakt

  • requirement(key): read the key value somehow..Maybe I missed something in the docs
    requirement(header): read header values, Reason: I use CDC | Debezium and in the current system the header values are important to differentiate between the CRUD operations.

    https://discord.com/channels/1085457301214855171/1090956337938182266/1098592795557630063

• Contribution with instructions how to build and test added (#255), thanks to @Sternakt

• Export encoders, decoders from fastkafka.encoder (#246), thanks to @kumaranvpl

• Create a Github action file to automatically index the website and commit it to the FastKafkachat repository. (#239)

• UI Improvement: Post screenshots with links to the actual messages in testimonials section (#228)

Bugs Squashed

• Batch testing fix (#280), thanks to @Sternakt

• Tester breaks when using Batching or KafkaEvent producers (#279)

• Consumer loop callbacks are not executing in parallel (#276)