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What's new across Kpow, Flex, and Factor Platform, with downloads for every version.

Release 1.1 · May 19, 2025

Compaction Scheduling and Orphan File Cleanup

Iglu adds scheduled compaction and orphan file cleanup, so table maintenance runs automatically instead of through a cron job you have to babysit.

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Release 94.2 · May 15, 2025

Google 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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Release 1.0 · March 3, 2025

Table Health Dashboard and Snapshot Inspection

Iglu introduces a table health dashboard and snapshot inspection, giving you visibility into file counts, partition skew, and snapshot history for every Iceberg table.

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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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Release 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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