core-v2.4.3

@cookiemonsterdev/kafka-core-v2.4.3 (2026-09-04)

Bug Fixes

• consumer-group: retry from leader on stale preferred-replica info (b5fef00)
• core: declare kerberos as an optional peer dependency (7105102)
• eos-manager: stop dropping partition-gate locks on producer id init (1208c91)
• network: react to socket errors after the handshake completes (a8e35d0)
• producer: skip stale sequence rollback on epoch reset (ea1dc3d)
• share-consumer: observe background loop rejections in share runner (b0788c8)

Performance Improvements

• producer: avoid recomputing message batch byte size twice (b2a7515)
• protocol: look up error codes via a map instead of linear scan (cf391ac)