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August 2, 2022

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August 2, 2022

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August 2, 2022
Release 89.1: Search Speed and Managed Connect

Kpow v89.1 is a major feature release that includes up to 20x improvement to Data Inspect speed, support for Confluent Managed Connect, support for Confluent Managed Connect, and support for MSK Serverless.

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June 2, 2022

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June 2, 2022

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June 2, 2022
Release 88.7: Kafka Idempotent Producer Bug

Kpow v88.7 resolves a minor issue introduced in Kafka 3.2.0

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June 2, 2022
Apache Kafka 3.2.0: Idempotent Producer Breaking Change

Apache Kafka KIP-679 changes the behaviour of default Producer configuration to enable idempotence by default. This change can cause message production to fail after updating to the 3.2.0 kafka-client libraries.

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June 2, 2022

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June 2, 2022

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May 27, 2022

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May 27, 2022

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May 27, 2022
Release 88.6: AWS Glue Protobuf Support

Kpow v88.6 brings Protobuf support for AWS Glue, easy configuration of JSON application logs, improved orphan schema detection, a JDK17 docker image, and improves integration with both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Schema Registry.

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May 16, 2022
Amazon Corretto 11 Memory Issues

A recent move to v2 cgroups by a number of Linux distributions (including Amazon Linux 2022 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) highlights an issue in Amazon Corretto 11 where the JVM process can cause a Docker container to exit with OOMKilled errors.

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May 16, 2022

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May 16, 2022

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May 10, 2022

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May 10, 2022

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May 10, 2022
Release 88.5: 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.

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