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Confluent Schema References
Kpow now fully supports schema references in Confluent Schema Registry: create and edit AVRO, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schema with references, and produce or consume messages using them.
Introducing Connector Auto-Restart
Kpow can now auto restart connectors when they fail. Read on to learn how to make connectors more reliable.
Kpow WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
Kpow for Apache Kafka is now WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, with an independently audited Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) report confirming the certification.
Kpow OpenAPI 3.1 Kafka API
Kpow now offers a secure, vendor-agnostic OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for managing Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry resources, ready to integrate with your product or GitOps pipeline.
Accessibility
Release v92.3 introduces extensive UI accessibility improvements to Kpow and Flex along with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Quotas, producers, and KRaft
Release v92.2 introduces new UI for Kafka Quotas, Transactional Producers, and KRaft clusters, plus topic and consumer management features and Flink checkpoint and watermark improvements in Flex.
Multi-topic create, time-since URP
Kpow v92.1 closes a large number of support tickets, introduces new features like multi-topic create and time-since URP, and improves the efficieny of Kafka Connect and Schema Registry observation.
Expand and Explore
Kpow v91.5 brings improved UX for expanding and exploring tabular data, provides support for importing messages with headers for production, and fixes a few minor bugs.
ksqlDB UI and Broker Disk Telemetry
Kpow v91.1 introduces a new ksqlDB UI, new disk usage telemetry, and wildcard filtering.