[Release] Bumped kafka_consumer version to 7.2.1 (DataDog#23683)

Author: sarah-witt

kafka_consumer/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 <!-- towncrier release notes start -->
 
+## 7.2.1 / 2026-05-12
+
+***Fixed***:
+
+* Switch cluster monitoring's earliest-offset fetch to AdminClient.list_offsets(earliest), and isolate its failures so an earliest-offset error no longer drops topic.message_rate, partition.isr, topic.config.*, and other unrelated topic-metadata metrics. ([#23580](https://github.com/DataDog/integrations-core/pull/23580))
+
 ## 7.2.0 / 2026-04-15
 
 ***Added***:

kafka_consumer/changelog.d/23580.fixed

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # All rights reserved
 # Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license (see LICENSE)
 
-__version__ = "7.2.0"
+__version__ = "7.2.1"

kafka_consumer/datadog_checks/kafka_consumer/__about__.py

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ datadog-jboss-wildfly==3.4.0
 datadog-journald==3.2.0
 datadog-juniper-srx-firewall==1.3.0
 datadog-kafka-actions==2.6.0
-datadog-kafka-consumer==7.2.0
+datadog-kafka-consumer==7.2.1
 datadog-kafka==4.5.0
 datadog-karpenter==3.4.1
 datadog-keda==2.4.1