Release date: 2024-05-07

General fixes 🔨​

• Fixed a race condition when closing connections (i.e. when Gateway detects a broker is removed from the cluster) that was causing restarts/timeouts
• Fix duplicated key exception when rebuilding fetch request with duplicated topics
• FIX NPE when handling expired ApiVersions requests
• Added a check to validate schema registry connection and provide more meaningful errors for schema-based encryption
• Added a check against defaultAlgorithm used in the encryption interceptor to ensure it's a valid enum value, and avoid overriding with defaults
• Fixed an issue with externalStorage set to true in the encryption interceptor that was failing to store headers in a separate internal topic
• Ensure that if the encryption algorithm is changed, a new entry appears in the internal topic used to store headers
• Default namespace is now applied properly on schema-based encryption
• Added support encryption/decryption of AVRO bytes and enums types