Changelog

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.

• Introduce new PRESENTATION_MODE configuration to control UI visibility

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.

• Introduce WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, closing 100+ externally audited UI tickets
• Improve heatmap contrast colours
• Fix Weak SSL/TLS Key Exchange security advisory
• Fix Jetty authentication page visibility bug

Release v92.3 introduces extensive UI accessibility improvements to Kpow and Flex along with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

• Introduce accessibility improvements throughout the Flex UI
• Improve Github OAuth2 org->role mapping resilience

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.

• Improve responsiveness of checkpoint/savepoint mutations
• Improve timestamp formatting of watermarks and backpressure

• Introduce RBAC_EVALUATION_MODE for permissive STAGE/DENY evaluation
• Improve error message of concurrent bulk-action error
• Improve table action menu, group item as 'Mutations' or 'Explore'
• Fix regression in table preferences persistence

Today we introduce Flex for Apache Flink and announce Flow, the future of distributed systems engineering.

Starting now, individuals can use Flex CE for free, even at work. Organisations can install Flex CE in up to three non-production environments.

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.

• Flex for Apache Flink deployed to Dockerhub

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.

• Introduced Simple Consumer (Flink) UI