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Klang in the kREPL
Discover the kREPL, an interactive development environment for Apache Kafka providing all the tooling to consume topics and explore structured data with Klang, a language blending JQ and Clojure.
Dependency Improvements
This release brings all dependencies to current, ameliorating CVEs raised by our automated vulnerability scanning.
Header kJQ and UI Snappiness
Kpow introduces the ability to apply kJQ queries to message headers, allowing you to search tens of thousands of messages a second and match by header.
Compute Label Correction
Kpow corrects a labelling off-by-one error with horizontally displayed topologies.
Connect Permissive SSL
Kpow provides a new environment variable to allow SSL connections to Kafka Connect where the SSL certificate is deliberately not validated.
Kpow, LDAP, JAAS, and Compute
Kpow, Compute Console, and Jetty User Authentication (LDAP, File, and DB) all come in v60 of our engineering toolkit for Apache Kafka®
SAML Session Duration
Kpow provides a new environment variable to control the SAML session duration
SAML with Reverse Proxy
Kpow supports SAML SSO when installed behind an HTTPS terminating Reverse Proxy
Kafka Connect Resilience
Release 57 improves Kpow's resilience when integrating with Kafka Connect, reducing errors during connector state changes.