Explore the latest Confluent client updates, featuring Python asyncio general availability, improved support for Schema Registry and more.

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Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 is released, powered by librdkafka 2.13.0. The headline feature is Python asyncio support reaching General Availability, bringing improved lifecycle management via context managers, richer Message objects, deterministic partitioners, full type hints, and closure of 100+ GitHub issues. Schema Registry sees cross-language improvements for Python, .NET, Go, and JavaScript including better Apache Avro schema reference support, stricter validation flags, and bug fixes for wrapped unions and bytes serialization. The librdkafka core gains KIP-482 admin API updates, SSL/thread/memory safety fixes, OAuth token refresh improvements, and performance tuning for .NET, Go, and JavaScript clients.

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