Releases

This minor version release from Factor House improves protobuf rendering, sharpens light-mode, simplifies community edition setup, resolves a number of small bugs, and bumps Kafka client dependencies to v3.7.0.

Introducing full support for schema references in Confluent Schema Registry.

With this new release you can now create and edit AVRO, JSONSchema, and Protobuf schema with references, as well as consume and produce messages with those schema.

Kpow can now auto restart connectors when they fail.

Read on to learn how to make connectors more reliable.

Kpow now offers a secure, vendor-agnostic OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for managing Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry resources.

Read on to learn how to integrate Kpow with your product or GitOps pipeline using Kpow's new REST API modules.

Our mission at Factor House is to empower every engineer in the streaming tech space with superb tooling.

We are pleased to report that Kpow for Apache Kafka is now compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines and has an independently audited Voluntary Product Accessiblity Template (VPAT) report.

Release v92.3 introduces extensive UI accessibility improvements to Kpow and Flex along with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Release v92.2 introduces new UI for Kafka Quotas, Transactional Producers, and KRaft clusters along with new features for topic and consumer management and improvements to Flink checkpointing and watermarking in Flex.

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.

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.

Kpow v91.4 introduces ARM64 docker builds to support Graviton deployments and includes a range of general feature improvements.