Automatic connection recovery has been around for over 2 years in this client and some 5 years total (starting with the amqp gem in Ruby, then Bunny). With a round of fixes up to and in 3.6.6 we know that it works quite well in practice and what kind of bugs and tricky aspects we've discovered over the years. It's time to enable it by default and 4.0.0 is the right moment to do it.