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• Add timeout to flush buffer if last flush was longer than x seconds ago. (by @c0by)
• Fix pip package
• Support heapster/eventer JSON format (by @jerryjxj)

This is a major new release with more features, higher stability and much better performance. kafka-influxdb is now fully compatible with InfluxDB 1.x and Kafka 0.10.

• Update package requirements
• Integrate Confluent Kafka Python client API (with librdkafka support)
• Cleanup setuptools
• Switch from nose to pytest
• Extend travis CI configuration
• Make writing Kafka Readers much more flexible
• Improve error handling in Kafka Reader
• Improve logging messages
• General code cleanup
• Python 3.5 support
• PyPy 5.4 support
• InfluxDB 1.x support
• Deprecate Kafka sample message writer
• Deprecate collectd message writer
• Deprecate builtin benchmark functionality
• Integrate kafkacat for sample message writing
• Improve documentation
• Fix formatting of README for PyPi (thanks @di)
• Update Docker-based benchmarks
• Simplify testing by providing a Makefile-based environment
• Start kafka-influxdb with Python optimization (-O flag) by default.

• Fix values encoded as strings into Influxdb 0.9x (#9)
• Fix boolean commandline flags changed to strings (#8)
• Fix encoding of multiple measurements in one message (#12)
• Cleanup Docker setup
• Update Documentation
• PEP8 formatting

• Add support for SSL and UDP connections to InfluxDB
• Fix loading of encoders on pip install
• Update dependencies
• Refactoring, cleanup

• Add requirements.txt to Manifest file to fix pip install

• Fix a bug where kafka-influxdb stopped consuming messages (See #5)
• Improve config handling: config file parameters get properly overwritten by cli arguments
• Logging output contains exception message
• Refactoring and cleanup

• Make the application more robust by handling Kafka disconnect gracefully.
• Increase code coverage
• Fix docker-compose setup by correctly connecting kafka with zookeeper
• MInor refactoring and cleanup

• Create setuptools package
• Add continuous integration

Add functionality for benchmarks and statistics Improve Docker test setup Performance improvements

• Major rewrite which supports InfluxDB 0.9.1
• Supports custom encodings for all input and output formats
• Better error handling
• Updated documentation
• Add unit tests
• Add a license
• Update dependencies
• Add sample configurations for Collectd and InfluxDB
• Complete docker setup for easier testing