
Release 94.6: Factor Platform, Ververica Integration, and kJQ Enhancements
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.
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- Upgrades
- Upgraded to Kafka Clients 4.1.0 and Confluent Libraries 8.0.0.
- Updated Confluent Serdes (including Protobuf) to v4.31.1 to resolve security vulnerabilities and improve serialization resilience.
- Enhancements
- Data Inspect: Expanded kJQ capabilities with new
map
andselect
operators. - Improved Schema Registry integration: added additional createdAt metadata (supported in Confluent Schema Registry 8.0.0+ or AWS Glue)
- Improved the Amazon MSK connector BOOTSTRAP environment variable matching condition to ensure all applicable connectors are displayed.
- Data Inspect: Expanded kJQ capabilities with new
- Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue in LDAP auth for creating OBF-obfuscated values.
- Schema: Fixed a bug that resulted an incomplete list of schemas when using Confluent Schema Registry and SCHEMA_REGISTRY_OBSERVATION_VERSION=2.
- Schema: Fixed a bug where the schema ID was not updated when selecting different schema versions.
- Schema Registry integration: Fixed a bug where the schema version ID stat would not update when switching between revisions
- Data Inspect: Fixed a serialization exception when searching by key mode with AVRO keys.
- Data Inspect: Fixed incorrect display of large numeric values that exceed the browser's native maximum value.
- Data Inspect: Fixed raw formatted results overflowing the results container.
- Data Inspect: Fixed ghost data appearing when closing a tab during a streaming search.
- Connect: Enhanced summary statistics to display both connector-level and task-level counts separately for Running, Paused, Failed, and Unassigned states.
- Topology: Fixed missing edges in exported topology diagrams, improving rendering quality for downloaded images.
- Fixed CVE-2025-49794 security vulnerability in libxml2.