What's new in version 1.6.0

The KafkaProducer exposes many performance metrics of the producer client as operator metrics
The most important producer configs have default values, which result in higher reliability and throughput. These are retries, compression.type, linger.ms, batch.size, and max.in.flight.requests.per.connection.
New operator parameter guaranteeOrdering for the KafkaProducer, which guarantees that the sequence in a topic partition is the same as the order of tuples in case of retries.
Queue control for the KafkaProducer operator to stabilize the maximum queue time and to avoid timeouts sending records
The KafkaConsumer operator exposes some performance metrics of the consumer client as operator metrics, like the lag for each topic partition.