Releases

The first Factor Platform release candidate is here, a major milestone toward a unified control plane for real-time data streaming technologies. This release also introduces Ververica Platform integration in Flex, plus support for Kafka Clients 4.1 / Confluent 8.0.0 and new kJQ operators for richer stream inspection.

This release introduces a new unified documentation hub - Factor House Docs. It also introduces major data inspection enhancements, including comma-separated kJQ Projection expressions, in-browser search, and over 15 new kJQ transforms and functions. Further improvements include more reliable cluster monitoring with improved Under-Replicated Partition (URP) detection, support for KRaft improvements, the flexibility to configure custom serializers per-cluster, and a resolution for a key consumer group offset reset issue.

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.

This minor release from Factor House introduces BYO AI model support, topic data inference, and major enhancements to data inspect—such as AI-powered filtering, new UI elements, and AVRO date formatting. It also adds integration with GCP Managed Kafka Schema Registry, improved webhook support, updated policy handling, and several UI and error-handling improvements.

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!

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

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.

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.

Kpow can now auto restart connectors when they fail.

Read on to learn how to make connectors more reliable.

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.