Release 0.7.0 of the Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Node.js

Release 0.7.0 (August 2, 2017)

• Updated the dependency on [Amazon Kinesis Client for Java][amazon-kcl-github] to 1.8.1.
  This adds support for setting a timeout when dispatching records to the node.js record processor.
  If the record processor doesn't respond in the given time the Java processor is terminated.
  The timeout for the this can be set by adding timeoutInSeconds = <timeout value>. The default for this is no timeout.
  Setting this can cause the KCL to exit suddenly, before using this ensure that you have an automated restart for your application
  Updating minimum requirement for the JDK version to 8
  • Amazon Kinesis Client Issue #185
  • PR #41
• Added support to handle graceful shutdown requests.
  • PR #39
  • Issue #34