Revision history for Kafka package
0.8008 Tue Apr  29 2014
    - Support for GZIP and Snappy compression
      (thanks to Colin Blower).
    - 'Kafka' module extended with the following constants:
      $COMPRESSION_NONE, $COMPRESSION_GZIP, $COMPRESSION_SNAPPY,
      $ERROR_COMPRESSION, $ERROR_METADATA_ATTRIBUTES.
    - Removed $ERROR_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD constant.
    - Added test 't/45_compression.t'.
0.8007 Fri Mar  14 2014
    CHANGES:
    - Kafka::Cluster adapted for kafka 0.8.1 .
0.8006 Thu Feb  20 2014
    BUGFIXES:
    - Corrected description of the error in Kafka::Connection.
0.8001_1 - 0.8005 Fri Dec  27 2013
    CHANGES:
    - t/*_io.t examines possibility of using gethostbyname( 'localhost' ) .
    - Debug diagnostic and test improved.
    BUGFIXES:
    - 'localhost' is no longer used in the t/*_io.t .
0.8001 Tue Dec  24 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Improvements to error handling and tests.
    - 'MaxLoggedErrors' argument is added to Kafka::Connection->new.
    - Added new methods Kafka::Connection->nonfatal_errors,
      Kafka::Connection->clear_nonfatals, Kafka::Internals->debug_level .
    - Added error $Kafka::ERROR_SEND_NO_ACK .
    - Added setting $Kafka::RECEIVE_MAX_RETRIES .
0.800_17 Fri Nov  15 2013
    CHANGES:
    - 'AutoCreateTopicsEnable' argument is added to Kafka::Connection->new
      (thanks to Ed Silva).
0.800_16 Fri Nov  08 2013
    BUGFIXES:
    - Fixed problem with connecting to servers running on localhost.
0.800_15 Wed Nov  06 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Improvement of test t/*_io.t .
0.800_14 Thu Oct  31 2013
    CHANGES:
    - We use alarm internally in Kafka::IO (not Time::HiRes::alarm).
    - For 'gethostbyname' operations the timeout is rounded
      to the nearest greater positive integer.
0.800_8 - 0.800_13 Wed Oct  30 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Debugging Test t/*_io.t .
0.800_7 Mon Oct  28 2013
    CHANGES:
    - t/*_io.t test more ways how external alarm may interfere with internal
      alarm used by Kafka::IO.
    - Added to META.yml the list of the modules provided by this distribution.
0.800_6 Fri Oct  25 2013
    CHANGES:
    - You can disable ALARMS usage by Kafka by passing timeout => undef to
      Kafka::Connection->new or Kafka::IO->new. In this case '$REQUEST_TIMEOUT'
      is used for the rest of IO operations.
    BUGFIXES:
    - Kafka::IO->new preserves external alarms but this may delay alarm signal
      delivery (thanks to Stephen Sprague).
0.800_5 Fri Oct  18 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Test t/??_io.t checks the external ALRM signal handler.
    - Minor improvements in documentation.
0.800_4 Fri Sep  27 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Refactored error handling. See documentation for module Kafka::Exceptions.
      Retired methods RaiseError, last_error last_errorcode.
    - Added method Kafka::Connection->cluster_errors.
0.800_3 Tue Sep  17 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Use Try::Tiny for proper preservation of $@ .
0.800_2 Mon Sep  16 2013
    BUGFIXES:
    - Fixed to make it working on Perl 5.10 and over.
0.800_1 Fri Sep  06 2013
    !!! This is a major upgrade that changes API. It's strongly advised to study
    revised documentation and update your code where necessary !!!
    CHANGES:
    - Implement Kafka API ver 0.8.0 . For communication with earlier versions of Kafka
      use Kafka module versions before 0.8.0 .
    - Added Kafka::Connection, Kafka::Internals.
    - Kafka::Mock renamed to Kafka::MockIO and moved to t/lib.
    - Additional testing units (in t/lib) for the following modules:
      Kafka::Cluster, Kafka::MockProtocol, Kafka::TestInternals.
    - Various service scripts & configurations added in t/bin and t/config.
    - Profiling scripts are added to the tools directory.
    - Introducted KAFKA_BASE_DIR environment variable to specify alternative location
      to Kafka base directory. Defaults to t/data.
    - Updated service files needed to build the package.
0.12  Fri Mar  08 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Change the port used in the Kafka::Mock
0.11  Thu Feb  28 2013
    CHANGES:
    - Use String::CRC32 instead of Digest::CRC
0.10  Thu Feb  07 2013
    CHANGES:
    - 03_kafka_bench.t does not depend on previous tests
0.09  Mon Jan  14 2013
    CHANGES:
    - benchmark_consumer.pl and benchmark_producer.pl are moved
      to directory tools
    - Makefile.PL by default does not ask questions interactively
0.08  Fri Dec  21 2012
    CHANGES:
    - Tests reorganized
0.07  Thu Dec  18 2012
    FIXES:
    - Checking OS and Perl version in Makefile.PL
      CPAN RT #82018: Tests hang on Windows. (reported by Alexandr Ciornii)
0.06  Wed Sep  26 2012
    CHANGES:
    - Refinement of calculation operation time in benchmarks
    - Some improvements in tests
0.05  Thu Sep  13 2012
    CHANGES:
    - Mock server tests moved to 'xt' directory
0.04  Mon Sep  10 2012
    CHANGES:
    - Author and release tests moved to 'xt' directory
0.03  Thu Aug  30 2012
    CHANGES:
    - Makefile.PL modified for the use of command line
    - Added control code coverage 'coverage.sh'
    - Added test 't/94_fixme.t'
    - Added test 't/95_critic.t'
    BUGFIXES:
    - Fixed version number to 'use 5.010'
0.02  Wed Jun  13 2012
    CHANGES:
    - Minor changes in documentation
    BUGFIXES:
    - Fixed Kafka::Int64 to make it working on Perl 5.12
    - Disallow using 0 timeouts in Kafka::IO and Kafka::Mock
0.01  Tue Jun  12 2012
    - Original version