What's new in Kpow
Release notes for every Kpow version, with downloads for Docker, Helm, and AWS Marketplace.
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.
Read release notesUI performance improvements
95.5 is a minor bugfix release focusing on UI performance and resolving some regressions introduced by Kpow 95.4.
Read release notesConcurrent 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.
Read release notesMemory leak fix for in-memory compute users
95.3 fixes a memory leak in our in-memory compute implementation, reported by our customers.
Read release notesquality-of-life improvements across Kpow, Flex & Helm deployments
95.2 focuses on refinement and operability, with improvements across the UI, consumer group workflows, and deployment configuration. Alongside bug fixes and usability improvements, this release adds new Helm options for configuring the API and controlling service account credential automounting.
Read release notesA unified experience across product, web, docs and licensing
95.1 delivers a cohesive experience across Factor House products, licensing, and brand. This release introduces our new license portal, refreshed company-wide branding, a unified Community License for Kpow and Flex, and a series of performance, accessibility, and schema-related improvements.
Read release notesRealtime Kafka Monitoring
Kpow supports realtime monitoring of Apache Kafka with Live Mode
Read release notesFactor Platform, Ververica Integration, and kJQ Enhancements
The first Factor Platform release candidate is here, a major milestone toward a unified control plane for real-time data streaming technologies. This release also introduces Ververica Platform integration in Flex, plus support for Kafka Clients 4.1 / Confluent 8.0.0 and new kJQ operators for richer stream inspection.
Read release notesNew Factor House docs, enhanced data inspection and URP & KRaft improvements
This release introduces a new unified documentation hub - Factor House Docs. It also introduces major data inspection enhancements, including comma-separated kJQ Projection expressions, in-browser search, and over 15 new kJQ transforms and functions. Further improvements include more reliable cluster monitoring with improved Under-Replicated Partition (URP) detection, support for KRaft improvements, the flexibility to configure custom serializers per-cluster, and a resolution for a key consumer group offset reset issue.
Read release notesAuto SerDes improvements
This minor hotfix release from Factor House resolves a bug when using Auto SerDes without Data policies, and adds support for UTF-8 String Auto SerDes inference.
Read release notesBYO AI, Topic data inference, and Data inspect improvements
This minor release from Factor House introduces BYO AI model support, topic data inference, and major enhancements to data inspect—such as AI-powered filtering, new UI elements, and AVRO date formatting. It also adds integration with GCP Managed Kafka Schema Registry, improved webhook support, updated policy handling, and several UI and error-handling improvements.
Read release notesGoogle MSK, Data Inspect, and A+ Docker Health
This minor release from Factor House introduces support for GCP MSK and new feature improvements such as data inspect display options, AVRO Date Logical Type formatting, flat CSV export, and fixes a bug in consumer offset reset!
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