An important bugfix https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-kafka/pull/151 needs a release. Do release management: * [x] [5.x bump](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-kafka/pull/158) * [x] [6.x bump](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-kafka/pull/159) * [x] [7.x (master) bump](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-kafka/pull/160) Then release: * [x] 5.x release * [x] 6.x release * [x] 7.x release