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What's new in Kpow

Release notes for every Kpow version, with downloads for Docker, Helm, and AWS Marketplace.

Kpow 94.1 · February 27, 2025

Streams Agent, Consumer Offset Management, and Helm Charts

This major version release from Factor House improves consumer offset management, Kafka Streams telemetry, extra data inspect capabilities and new Helm Charts!

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Kpow 93.4 · August 20, 2024

Protobuf, Light Mode, and Community

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.

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Kpow 93.3 · July 18, 2024

Confluent Schema References

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.

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Kpow 93.2 · May 16, 2024

Introducing Connector Auto-Restart

Kpow can now auto restart connectors when they fail. Read on to learn how to make connectors more reliable.

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Kpow 92.4 · May 5, 2024

Kpow WCAG 2.1 AA Accessibility Compliance

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.

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Kpow 93.1 · March 18, 2024

Kpow OpenAPI 3.1 Kafka API

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.

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Kpow 92.3 · January 12, 2024

Accessibility

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

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Kpow 92.2 · November 1, 2023

Quotas, Transactional Producers, and KRaft

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.

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Kpow 92.1 · September 15, 2023

Multi-Topic Create and Time Since URP

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.

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Kpow 91.5 · July 12, 2023

Expand and Explore

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.

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Kpow 91.1 · June 6, 2023

ksqlDB UI and Broker Disk Telemetry

Kpow v91.1 introduces a new ksqlDB UI, new disk usage telemetry, and wildcard filtering.

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Kpow 91.4 · May 30, 2023

Graviton Support

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

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