What's new.

Kpow v94.3

• Add BYO AI models
• Topic serdes inference
  • Add 'Auto' deserializer to data inspect
  • Add optional infer topic serdes job to populate Kpow's UI with topic serdes information
• Data inspect:
  • Add kJQ AI filter generation
  • Improve kJQ: chained alternatives, string/array slices, UUID type support
  • Add new Event log UI element to capture any data inspect anomalies
  • Report any process assignment exceptions to the frontend (previously only logged on the server)
  • UI overhaul: new secondary button style for toolbar actions
  • Add send to kREPL feature
• User interface:
  • Make Dark mode the default theme
• Update temporary policies
  • Support temporary policies of any duration (configurable, default max still 7 days)
  • Better error messages in the UI
• Kafka Provider Integration
  • Add support for GCP Managed Kafka Schema Registry integration
• Error handling:
  • Improved error logging for scheduled mutations
  • Improved error messaging for stopped connectors
• Code editor: improve keybinding support
• Webhooks: add support for Microsoft Teams and generic HTTP
• Helm Charts:
  • Official, signed charts with verified publisher status and values schema validation!
  • Improve container security: explicitly set allowPrivilegeEscalation: false and enforce additional hardening through strict securityContext settings.

Flex v94.3

• Make Dark mode the default theme
• Fix job heat-map tooltip saying "in a minute"
• Webhooks: add support for Microsoft Teams and generic HTTP
• Helm Charts:
  • Official, signed charts with verified publisher status and values schema validation!
  • Improve container security: explicitly set allowPrivilegeEscalation: false and enforce additional hardening through strict securityContext settings.

Kpow v94.2

• Added support for Google Cloud Platform Managed Kafka Service
• Fixed snappy compression operation with strict security policies
• Fixed consumer offset reset bug
• Updated Helm chart link to point to correct repo
• Connectors:
  • Improved error messaging for stopped connectors
  • Fixed "Copy as JSON" and "Copy as cURL" request structure bug
  • Fixed link to "POST/connectors" to navigate to the relevant section
• Data inspect:
  • Introduced option to expand/contract large messages
  • Improved handling of AVRO Date Logical Type
  • Introduced new display options configuration
  • Introduced ability to export data in flattened CSV format
• User interface:
  • Migrated to Tailwind 4.0
  • Migrated to new HSX and RFX framework libraries - a snappier UI!
  • Fixed "Description" button placement on topic creation UI
  • Fixed chart line visibility changes on mouse hover in dark mode
• Error handling:
  • Improved error logging for scheduled mutations
  • Improved error messaging for stopped connectors
• Documentation:
  • Updated screenshots on both data inspect and data produce pages
  • Updated docs to reflect changes new data inspect features
  • Amazon MSK integration added to sidebar navigation in doc tree
  • Documented correct snappy compression configuration

Flex v94.2

• Various UI + UX bugfixes
• Migrated to Tailwind 4.0
• Migrated to new HSX and RFX framework libraries - a snappier UI!

Kpow v94.1

• Advance to Apache Kafka Client v3.9.0 libraries
• Default to Java17 for releases
• Add Kpow Community Helm Charts
• Data inspect improvements:
  • Correct format 'very large' Long values in query results
  • Add optional 'Window end' to queries
  • Add advanced data inspect query options:
    • Add ability to specify isolation level=READ_COMMITTED for query
    • Add ability to manually reset sampler before invoking a query
• Streams Agent improvements:
  • Release version 1.0.0 of the io.factorhouse/kpow-streams-agent library
    • Add ability to configure a KeyStrategy - how data written to internal topic should be keyed
    • Add ability to configure a MetricFilter - specify which metrics should be sent to Kpow
  • Improve performance of streams agent backend processing
  • Improve streams agent overview page: add details about running agents, number of metrics
  • Improve streams agent topology metric UIs
• Consumer offset management:
  • Make UX consistent between 'Workflows' UI and Table actions
  • Add new reset method: reset by raw offset
  • Improve timestamp UX: show timestamp as local time, UTC and UNIX epoch in UI
  • Improve reset offset form UX
• API improvements:
  • Add API descriptions to all fields in our OpenAPI 3.0 spec
  • Add temporary policies to the Admin API endpoints
• Topic actions: add 'View schema' action to all topic tables
• Accessibility: add decal options to all charts
• Re-add 'Data' quick link tab within 'Topics' panel
• Add new configuration options for Strict-Transport-Security: HTTPS_STS_MAX_AGE and HTTPS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS
• Fix measurement unit in disk graphs

Flex v94.1

• Default to Java17 for releases
• Add Flex and Flex Community Helm Charts
• Accessibility: add decal options to all charts
• Add new configuration options for Strict-Transport-Security: HTTPS_STS_MAX_AGE and HTTPS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS

Kpow v93.4

• Advance to Apache Kafka Client v3.7.0 libraries
• Introduce ability to download topology visualisation as an image
• Improve light mode - better contrast between elements
• Improve protobuf rendering in data inspect (thanks @gabistoenescu)
• Improve Kpow Community setup wizard UX with option to import properties files
• Improve validation when importing JSON files into data produce function
• Fix create topic partition bug
• Fix delete schema version bug
• Fix delete connector in MSK bug
• Fix partial snapshotting of AWS Glue schema registry bug

Flex v93.4

• Introduce ability to download topology visualisation as an image
• Improve light mode - better contrast between elements

Kpow v93.3

• Introduce support for schema reference management
• Improve performance with removal of producer and transaction observation
• Improve visualization of Kafka Streams and consumer group topologies
• Improve responsive UI for smaller resolution screens
• Improve Kpow Community wizard with templates
• Improve 'Create Connector' page with connector icons
• Improve connector auto-restart implementation
• Improve Kraft broker UI
• Improve MSK Managed Connect UI/UX
• Improve error messages when message production fails
• Improve OpenID Connect role claim ingestion
• Improve Kafka configuration observation

Flex v93.3

• Improve responsive UI for smaller resolution screens
• Improve OpenID Connect role claim ingestion
• Improve flink topologies vizualisation

Kpow v93.2

• Introduce connectors auto-restart functionality
• Improve ksqlDB UI: import sql files, better error handling and timing metrics
• Allow RBAC wildcards at both start and end of resource, such as *foo*
• Introduce download capabilities in krepl
• Preserve the last visited page when navigating between resources
• Add keybindings table to data inspect + ksqldb forms
• Fix bug starting Kpow with PERSISTENCE_MODE=audit
• Improve mutation notification UX
• Fix bug with tenancy resource handling for fine-grained Schema resources

Flex v93.2

• Allow RBAC wildcards at both start and end of resource, such as *foo*

Kpow v92.4

• Introduce WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, closing 100+ externally audited UI tickets
• Introduce feature to manage soft-deleted schemas in Confluent Schema Registry
• Introduce feature to support 'STOP' state in Kafka Connect connectors
• Introduce configuration to secure Kafka Connect connections with mTLS
• Introduce configuration HTTPS_PROXY for proxied client connections
• Improve heatmap contrast colours
• Improve mutation error message messaging
• Improve ksqlDB config/host misconfiguration logging
• Fix Weak SSL/TLS Key Exchange security advisory
• Fix Jetty authentication page visibility bug
• Fix ksqlDB multi-resource select bug
• Fix streams agent sanitise ID issue

Flex v92.4

• Introduce WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, closing 100+ externally audited UI tickets
• Improve heatmap contrast colours
• Fix Weak SSL/TLS Key Exchange security advisory
• Fix Jetty authentication page visibility bug

Kpow v93.1

• Introduce secure OpenAPI 3.1 API for Kafka, Connect, and Schema management
• Introduce new PRESENTATION_MODE configuration to control UI visibility
• Improve RBAC granularity with new fine-grained permissions
• Improve MSK Connect configurability with new authentication methods
• Fix Confluent Cloud observation performance bug

Flex v93.1

• Introduce new PRESENTATION_MODE configuration to control UI visibility

Kpow v92.3

• Introduce accessibility improvements throughout the Kpow UI
• Introduce new topic reassignment UI with cancel reassignment function
• Improve topic UI with partition preferred leader metrics
• Improve producer UI with new aggregate producer tables
• Improve topic inspect and data produce form UX
• Improve Prometheus performance and add new streams state endpoint
• Improve Kafka Connect integation with more lenient timeout for slow connectors
• Improve Github OAuth2 org->role mapping resilience
• Improve temporary policy duration to seven day duration
• Fix topic replica data, retain correct ordering of replicas
• Fix topic message production header duplication bug
• Fix STS Assume Role regression for MSK IAM Authentication

Flex v92.3

• Introduce accessibility improvements throughout the Flex UI
• Improve Github OAuth2 org->role mapping resilience

Kpow v92.2

• Introduce new Quota UI, actions, RBAC, and Tenancy controls
• Introduce new KRaft UI, actions, RBAC and Tenancy controls
• Introduce new Transactional Producer UI, actions, RBAC and Tenancy controls
• Introduce action to allow topic leader election
• Introduce action to allow topic alter replicas
• Introduce action to allow removing a member from a consumer group
• Improve AWS LM integration to be more lenient with rolling restarts
• Improve Kpow functionality when PERSISTENCE_MODE=none
• Fix broker topics column name error, 'Replicas' becomes 'Partitions'
• Fix ACL table column preferences

Flex v92.2

• Improve responsiveness of checkpoint/savepoint mutations
• Improve timestamp formatting of watermarks and backpressure

All Products v92.2

• Introduce RBAC_EVALUATION_MODE for permissive STAGE/DENY evaluation
• Improve error message of concurrent bulk-action error
• Improve table action menu, group item as 'Mutations' or 'Explore'
• Fix regression in table preferences persistence