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Apache Kafka KIP-679 changes the behaviour of default Producer configuration to enable idempotence by default. This change can cause message production to fail after updating to the 3.2.0 kafka-client libraries.

Kpow v88.6 brings Protobuf support for AWS Glue, easy configuration of JSON application logs, improved orphan schema detection, a JDK17 docker image, and improves integration with both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Schema Registry.

A recent move to v2 cgroups by a number of Linux distributions (including Amazon Linux 2022 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) highlights an issue in Amazon Corretto 11 where the JVM process can cause a Docker container to exit with OOMKilled errors.

Kpow v88.5 brings improved integration with the Confluent Cloud Metrics API for large cloud clusters, and a number of minor improvements and bug fixes.

Kpow v88.4 brings nice new UI features including resizable columns and easy JSON export of tabular data. Performance and security improvements are also included.

Kpow v88.2 introduces improved support for monitoring Flink consumers, the ability to encrypt your Kpow configuration to avoid passwords in plaintext, new configuration options for connecting to Confluent Schema Registries that require mutual TLS for authentication, and more.

Kpow v88.1 is the first release to follow our new Major.Minor release model.

Kpow v88 features support for producing with message headers, protobuf referenced schemas, a new topic partition increase function, and much more.

Kpow v87 features support for AVRO Decimal Logical Type fields in both Data Inspect and Data Produce, improved Data Import UX for CSV message upload, and support for RHOSAK.

Kpow v86 features improved Kpow snapshot compute performance and an updated Schema UI that shows AWS Glue schema status.