Release notes.
What's new across Kpow, Flex, and Factor Platform, with downloads for every version.
Factor Platform RC and Ververica
The first Factor Platform release candidate is here. This release also introduces Ververica Platform integration in Flex, plus Kafka Clients 4.1 / Confluent 8.0.0 support and new kJQ operators.
Read release notesFactor House docs and inspect fixes
This release introduces Factor House Docs, a new unified documentation hub, along with major data inspection enhancements and more reliable URP detection and KRaft support improvements.
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 and Data Inspect updates
This minor release introduces BYO AI model support, topic data inference, and Data Inspect enhancements including AI-powered kJQ filtering and AVRO date formatting improvements.
Read release notesGoogle MSK, Data Inspect, Docker A+
This minor release from Factor House adds support for GCP MSK, new data inspect display options, AVRO Date Logical Type formatting, flat CSV export, and a consumer offset reset fix.
Read release notesStreams agent, offsets, Helm charts
This major version release from Factor House improves consumer offset management, Kafka Streams telemetry, extra data inspect capabilities and new Helm Charts!
Read release notesProtobuf, Light Mode, and Community
This minor release from Factor House improves protobuf rendering, sharpens light mode, simplifies Community Edition setup, fixes small bugs, and bumps Kafka clients to v3.7.0.
Read release notesConfluent Schema References
Kpow now fully supports schema references in Confluent Schema Registry: create and edit AVRO, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schema with references, and produce or consume messages using them.
Read release notesIntroducing Connector Auto-Restart
Kpow can now auto restart connectors when they fail. Read on to learn how to make connectors more reliable.
Read release notesKpow WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
Kpow for Apache Kafka is now WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, with an independently audited Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) report confirming the certification.
Read release notesKpow 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, ready to integrate with your product or GitOps pipeline.
Read release notesAccessibility
Release v92.3 introduces extensive UI accessibility improvements to Kpow and Flex along with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
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