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Release 96.1: Factor Platform, performance Improvements and new features in Kpow and Flex

Factor House
June 5, 2026
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Release Info

Dockerhub
Helm
AWS Marketplace
Java JAR
Java 11 JAR
Java 8 JAR
VPAT

Kpow can be found on Dockerhub

docker pull factorhouse/kpow:96.1

View our Docker quick start guide for help getting started.

Kpow can be found on ArtifactHub

Helm version: 1.0.79

helm repo add factorhouse https://charts.factorhouse.io
helm repo update
helm install --namespace factorhouse --create-namespace my-kpow factorhouse/kpow --version 1.0.79 \
--set env.LICENSE_ID="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001" \
--set env.LICENSE_CODE="KPOW_CREDIT" \
--set env.LICENSEE="Your Corp\, Inc." \
--set env.LICENSE_EXPIRY="2024-01-01" \
--set env.LICENSE_SIGNATURE="638......A51" \
--set env.BOOTSTRAP="127.0.0.1:9092\,127.0.0.1:9093\,127.0.0.1:9094" \
--set env.SECURITY_PROTOCOL="SASL_PLAINTEXT" \
--set env.SASL_MECHANISM="PLAIN" \
--set env.SASL_JAAS_CONFIG="org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username=\"user\" password=\"secret\";"
--set env.LICENSE_CREDITS="7"

View our Helm instructions for help getting started.

Kpow can be found on the AWS Marketplace

View our AWS Marketplace documentation for help getting started.

Kpow can be downloaded and installed as a Java JAR file. This JAR is compatible with Java versions 17+.

Download Kpow Java JAR

View our JAR quick start guide for help getting started.

Kpow can be downloaded and installed as a Java JAR file. This JAR is compatible with Java versions 11+.

Download Kpow Java JAR

View our JAR quick start guide for help getting started.

Kpow can be downloaded and installed as a Java JAR file. This JAR is compatible with Java 8.

Download Kpow Java JAR

View our JAR quick start guide for help getting started.

Download VPAT
Factor House publish a VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) for each release.

For more information, read the Kpow accessibility documentation.

Data Lineage

Factor Platform captures OpenLineage metadata across your connected source systems (such as Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg) to provide a clear view of data-flow and dependencies within your environment.

In this release, we introduce support for using a Schema Registry as a source of data lineage metadata.

Dataset Schema

Factor Platform can map annotated schema metadata to OpenLineage Dataset facets.

Mappings are specified per schema type (e.g. Avro or JSON Schema) at the Schema Registry level and can be defined through the UI via a wizard, or through the API.

Dataset Info

Once configured, Factor Platform will evaluate schema lineage metadata every minute, allowing you to:

  • View an OpenLineage-conforming Dataset describing the metadata from each schema.
  • Report on dataset quality issues such as malformed or null mappings and missing fields.
  • Filter and search by lineage metadata (ownership, tags, etc) in the Factor Platform UI
Dataset Schema

See our Factor Platform documentation for more information on configuring a Kafka Schema registry as a source of data lineage metadata.

Clone to Topic

Kpow users can now reproduce messages from one topic to another without the option of modifying the message payload.

Cone to topic

Performance updates

JVM 25 baseline and Jetty 12.1

In this release, we update the networking framework that underpins Factor House products to Jetty 12.1, we also advance the base image of our Docker container to Amazon Corretto 25, moving program execution to JVM 25.

These changes allow us to address all outstanding CVE, meaning that at the point of releasing 96.1 there are zero known CVE in any Factor House product. These changes also bring performance improvements, and in our benchmarking we have found a general reduction in Heap and CPU consumption with this change of 25%-30% across different workloads.

We are also pleased that in the completion of this work we identified and resolved an OOM issue that could impact Kpow instances that are serving a high number of concurrent users.

We continue to support Java 8, 11, 17, 21, and 25 JAR builds for each product release.

Release v96.1 Changelog

  • Update to JVM 25 and Jetty 12.1
  • Introduce data lineage derived from schema registry metadata
  • Introduce new 'Clone to topic' function for message replay without modification
  • Introduce wildcard '*' action for RBAC policies
  • Introduce SNAPSHOT_CONFIG_PERIOD_MS to provide configurable config period
  • Introduce JETTY_SECURE_COOKIE flag to require secure cookies when ssl terminated at proxy
  • Improve UI behavior and performance with large datasets and long field-names
  • Improve broker and topic filtering when viewing consumer groups
  • Improve tenant materialization performance
  • Fix empty consumer count by removing simple consumers from the empty consumer total
  • Fix simple consumer topic summary information
  • Fix OpenID Connect authentication error when presented with an overage claim
  • Fix sort-by columns for consumer topic, host, and broker views
  • Fix potential OOM when supporting a high number of concurrent users
  • Fix simple consumer offset-reset function

CVE Resolved

  • CRITICAL CVE-2026-4140 org.apache.mina:mina-core
  • CRITICAL CVE-2026-4163 org.apache.mina:mina-core
  • CRITICAL CVE-2026-4277 org.apache.mina:mina-core
  • CRITICAL CVE-2026-4277 org.apache.mina:mina-core
  • CRITICAL CVE-2026-4202 org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools
  • CRITICAL CVE-2026-4068 org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools
  • HIGH CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec
  • HIGH CVE-2026-4257 io.netty:netty-codec-dns
  • HIGH CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec-http
  • HIGH CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec-http
  • HIGH CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec-http2
  • HIGH CVE-2026-34480 org.apache.logging.log4j
  • HIGH CVE-2026-34478 org.apache.logging.log4j
  • HIGH CVE-2026-4244 org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools
  • HIGH CVE-2026-233 org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-http
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec-http
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec-http
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-4258 io.netty:netty-codec-http
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-4141 io.netty:netty-codec-http
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-686 io.vertx:vertx-core
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-3447 org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-1.2-api
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-3447 org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-3447 org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core
  • MEDIUM CVE-2026-3448 org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core
  • MEDIUM CVE-2024-676 org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-http
  • LOW CVE-2026-4257 io.netty:netty-handler-proxy
  • LOW CVE-2025-1114 org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-http
Release 96.1: Factor Platform, performance Improvements and new features in Kpow and Flex

Factor House release v96.1 brings significant new product features and performance enhancements to our Kafka and Flink tooling, and makes Factor Platform publicly available for early-access users.

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Release 95.5: UI performance improvements

95.5 is a minor bugfix release focusing on UI performance and resolving some regressions introduced by Kpow 95.4.

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Release 95.4: Concurrent data inspect, Strimzi support, and consumer group improvements

Kpow 95.4 introduces concurrent data inspect queries, Strimzi support, and improved consumer group management and monitoring.

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