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Reverse proxy X-Forwarded-For support
This minor release provides improved support for Jetty User Authentication (PropertyFile, JDBC, LDAP) when operating Kpow behind a reverse-proxy.
New Kafka ACL Management Features
Kpow v76 provides new Kafka ACL Management features and improves UI initialisation.
Protobuf Schema and Serdes
Version 75 provides support for Protobuf schema in the Schema Registry UI, and allows consumption and inspection of Protobuf in Data Inspect.
Kafka ACL Management and JSON Schema
Kpow v74 comes packed with features including full support for Kafka ACL Management, JSON Schema support, and a raft of UI and performance improvements.
SSL PEM Format Support
Version 73 provides support for PEM format SSL certificates introduced in Kafka 2.7.0 and described in KIP-651.
H/A Resource Management
Version 72 of Kpow includes greater support for high availability Kafka resource management, new liveness probes, and greater support for reverse-proxying:
Azure Event Hubs and Confluent Cloud
Version 70 of Kpow brings support for Azure Event Hubs, enables Multi-Tenant Confluent Cloud, introduces a new function to Klang, open sources our continuous delivery pipeline, and more..
Memory Leak Fix
Resolves a memory issue by reverting to a slightly older version of Jetty.
UI Stability
Kpow 66 resolves an issue that occasionally impacted compute and consumer group views in the UI.