v2.8.1

Version 2.8.1 has an important bugfix that prevents partitions from being consumed twice in some circumstances (#1294). Many thanks to @ytalashko for finding the root cause, providing a fix, and tirelessly discussing the problem until it was fully understood and the fix applied.

🚀 Noteworthy changes

• Fix assign followed by fast revoke during rebalance @ytalashko (#1294)
• Add alternative fetch strategy for many partitions @erikvanoosten (#1281)
• Document metrics and consumer tuning based on metrics @erikvanoosten (#1280)

🚅 More changes

• Prevent users from enabling auto commit @erikvanoosten (#1290)
• Alternative producer implementation @erikvanoosten (#1285)
• Small improvements to the Producer @erikvanoosten (#1272)
• Improve example app @erikvanoosten (#1279)

🌱 Maintenance

• Update sbt-tpolecat to 0.5.2 @zio-scala-steward (#1301)
• Update embedded-kafka to 3.7.1.1 @zio-scala-steward (#1300)
• Update logback-classic to 1.5.7 @zio-scala-steward (#1299)
• Update zio-streams, zio-test-sbt to 2.1.7 @zio-scala-steward (#1297)
• Update zio, zio-streams, zio-test, ... to 2.1.7 @zio-scala-steward (#1295)
• Update scalafmt-core to 3.8.3 @zio-scala-steward (#1291)
• Update README.md @zio-assistant (#1278)
• Update README.md @zio-assistant (#1277)
• Update zio-kafka, zio-kafka-testkit to 2.8.0 @zio-scala-steward (#1274)
• Update zio-streams, zio-test-sbt to 2.1.6 @zio-scala-steward (#1275)