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Changing auto_commit to False in SimpleConsumer, until 0.8.1 is release offset commits are unsupported
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Adding fetch_size_bytes to SimpleConsumer constructor to allow for user-configurable fetch sizes
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Allow SimpleConsumer to automatically increase the fetch size if a partial message is read and no other messages were read during that fetch request. The increase factor is 1.5
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Exception classes moved to kafka.common