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Release 95.2: quality-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.
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Release
January 12, 2026
Release 95.2: quality-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.
How-to
December 8, 2025
Integrate Kpow with Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI) Streaming with Apache Kafka
Unlock the full potential of your dedicated OCI Streaming with Apache Kafka cluster. This guide shows you how to integrate Kpow with your OCI brokers and self-hosted Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, unifying them into a single, developer-ready toolkit for complete visibility and control over your entire Kafka ecosystem.
Article
December 3, 2025
Unified community license for Kpow and Flex
The unified Factor House Community License works with both Kpow Community Edition and Flex Community Edition, meaning one license will unlock both products. This makes it even simpler to explore modern data streaming tools, create proof-of-concepts, and evaluate our products.
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How-to
May 15, 2025
Set Up Kpow with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
A comprehensive, step by step guide to provisioning Amazon MSK infrastructure, configuring authentication with the OAUTHBEARER mechanism using AWS IAM, setting up a client EC2 instance within the same VPC, and deploying Kpow.
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How-to
May 15, 2025
Manage Kafka Consumer Offsets with Kpow
Kpow version 94.2 enhances consumer group management capabilities, providing greater control and visibility into Kafka consumption. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to manage consumer offsets in Kpow.
Release
May 15, 2025
Release 94.2: 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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How-to
May 8, 2025
Set Up Kpow with Confluent Cloud
A step-by-step guide to configuring Kpow with Confluent Cloud resources including Kafka clusters, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB.
Release
February 27, 2025
Release 94.1: 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!
Article
February 27, 2025
Releasing Software at Factor House: Our Java Compatibility and Evolution Strategy
At Factor House, delivering reliable software is at the heart of everything we do. A key aspect of this commitment lies in our approach to managing Java compatibility. This blog post outlines our current release process and future plans for evolving Java support, including our approach to deprecating older versions in a way that respects the needs of diverse customer bases.
Events & Webinars
Stay plugged in with the Factor House team and our community.
Event
18 February 2026
Sydney Workshop: Building Resilient Event-Driven Systems with Kafka and Flink
We're teaming up with NetApp Instaclustr and Ververica to run this intensive half-day workshop where you'll design, build, and operate a complete real-time operational system from the ground up.
Event
19 February 2026
Melbourne Workshop: Building Resilient Event-Driven Systems with Kafka and Flink
We're teaming up with NetApp Instaclustr and Ververica to run this intensive half-day workshop where you'll design, build, and operate a complete real-time operational system from the ground up.
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We’re building more than products, we’re building a community. Whether you're getting started or pushing the limits of what's possible with Kafka and Flink, we invite you to connect, share, and learn with others.
