[!NOTE]
The go.mod directive has been bumped to 1.24.0 as the minimum version of Go required for the module. This was necessary to continue to receive updates from some of the third party dependencies that Sarama makes use of.

What's Changed

:tada: New Features / Improvements

• feat: support more describe log dirs versions (V2-V4) by @hindessm in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3293
• feat: support V5 ListConsumerGroups protocol by @hindessm in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3292
• feat: add SASLv1 support for Kerberos by @dnwe in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3279

:bug: Fixes

• fix: add read deadline to tls write by @bvalente in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3283

:package: Dependency updates

• chore(deps): bump go directive to 1.24.0 and golang.org/x/{crypto,net,sync} by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3288
• chore(deps): bump the golang-x group across 6 directories with 1 update by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3291
• chore(deps): bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/IBM/sarama/pull/3274