v2.7.3 release

[iradul]

@webmakersteve since there was confusion regarding version v2.7.2 that was published as v2.7.1-2 (#663) and since we didn't hear from you for a few months, I decided to merge #665 that solves Node 12 incompatibility. I also fixed e2e tests, improved and fixed travis ci tests and updated librdkafka to 1.2.1 (#684).
I was hoping that travis will execute npm publish since that stage seems well defined in .travis.yaml. I figured that the latest tag will be used as npm version when publishing and that this tag should point to the latest commit as well to bypass -x version suffix (which represents the number of commits between the latest tag and the latest commit).
Finally, I decided to try to trigger npm publish by tagging the latest commit with v2.7.3 but as I expected that didn't work. It looks like you'll again have to manually publish this version but be aware of .vscode (#670)

Hope this makes sense.

Update:
I fixed travis deployment stage but provided API key for NPM apparently doesn't work.
I'll now delete v2.7.3 tag. We're stuck until @webmakersteve comes back.

[vincent-ogury]

Any idea when a new proper version can be released? it is very annoying to have an issue on versioning and vscode on our production (image weight additional 1GB for no reason). We have a warning and no cache on the build of this module and it is the only one who take a lot of time to build (no prebuild include !)

[brettkiefer]

@iradul Is @webmakersteve the only one with the npm creds to release the package? If they don't have time to do it, it'd have to be a fork or at least a new package?

[iradul]

Is @webmakersteve the only one with the npm creds to release the package?

yes, there are some credentials in .travis.yml for NPM publishing but they don't work

[RemyLespagnol]

Arf... I need the Node 12 compatibility. I hope someone will find a solution!

[yuu2lee4]

Node12 has moved into LTS,We need a version to support it.

[yuu2lee4]

I tried your forked version,It likely not support node12? @iradul

[josephxsxn]

I would like to have the latest in npm as well. Cant install against node12 today easily.

[donjuandem]

Hi everybody,
just wanted to let you know, that I published a version with the node12 related fixes of this repo and fixes for some other problems I encountered:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@circle/node-rdkafka

[yuu2lee4]

@donjuandem @peterdemartini I tried your version,its ok installing with node 12,but cant connect to broker.

[iradul]

v2.7.3 is now published 🎆

[vincent-ogury]

Same issue as the 2.7.2 on the release of the 2.7.3!
Version in the package is set to "version": "v2.7.2-8".
That confuses the "yarn" package manager and lead to reinstalling every time we run a "yarn install" even if it is already there.

Can you release a 2.7.4 with package set to 2.7.4 in the package.json please?

Thanks.

[iradul]

Same issue as the 2.7.2 on the release of the 2.7.3!
Version in the package is set to "version": "v2.7.2-8".
That confuses the "yarn" package manager and lead to reinstalling every time we run a "yarn install" even if it is already there.

This happened because the package was published manually by webmakersteve. In the publishing process, there is a script that actually updates package.json version number according to the latest tag and latest commit distance from this tag.

Can you release a 2.7.4 with package set to 2.7.4 in the package.json please?

I believe he is trying to make a working npm key for us so that we can publish ourselves with Travis. Once this is ready I'll be glad to.