New major release
A major release with the following features:
- Upgrade to Kafka 2.5.0 and Confluent 5.5.0.
- Support for Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage & Azure Data Lake Store file systems.
- New policy based on cron expressions.
- Improved HDFS file watcher policy. It now allows reconnections.
- Removed old Delimited text file reader.
- New JSON file reader.
- New delimited file readers: CSV, TSV and FixedWidth file readers (based on Univocity parser).
- Allow setting a schema in delimited file readers.
- Enabled reading compressed files for text-based file reader (bzip2 and gzip).
- Test refactor and migrated to JUnit 5.
- Docker files.