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New UI, features and Kpow Community
Kpow v90.1 is packed with new Connect and Data Inspect features, provides a refreshed UI, and introduces Kpow Community Edition (CE).
Connect Inspect RBAC Permission
Kpow v98.4 introduces a new CONNECT_INSPECT RBAC permission and fixes a number of minor UI bugs.
Optional Log Cleaner Check Disable
Kpow v89.3 introduces the ability to disable the log.cleaner.enable=true broker configuration check that Kpow requires for default installations
Data Inspect and SAML Auth fixes
Kpow v89.2 resolves minor issues with XML messages in Data Inspect and relay state when re-authenticating SAML sessions.
Search Speed and Managed Connect
Kpow v89.1 is a major feature release with up to 20x faster Data Inspect, support for Confluent Managed Connect, MSK Managed Connect, and MSK Serverless.
Kafka Idempotent Producer Bug
Kpow v88.7 resolves a minor consumer issue introduced by the Kafka 3.2.0 client library upgrade.
AWS Glue Protobuf Support
Kpow v88.6 brings Protobuf support for AWS Glue, configurable JSON logs, improved orphan schema detection, a JDK17 docker image, and better Confluent integration.
Confluent Cloud Metrics API
Kpow v88.5 brings improved integration with the Confluent Cloud Metrics API for large cloud clusters, and a number of minor improvements and bug fixes.
Security, performance, resizable UI
Kpow v88.4 brings nice new UI features including resizable columns and easy JSON export of tabular data. Performance and security improvements are also included.