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Apache Kafka® Client Updates: KIP-848 (GA), asyncio, OAuth, and More
Explore the latest Confluent client updates, featuring KIP-848 general availability for improved consumer stability and native Asyncio support for Python. We’ve also added simplified OAuth metadata authentication for cloud security and new observability metrics for Node.js consumers.