0.9.0

Main changes:

• Add possibility to label and annotate different resources (#1039)
• Add support for TransactionalID in KafkaUser resource
• Update to Kafka 2.0.1
• Add maintenance time windows support for allowing CA certificates renewal rolling update started only in specific times (#1117)

Full list of changes can be found under the 0.9.0 milestone.

0.9.0-rc1

Main changes:

• Add possibility to label and annotate different resources (#1093)
• Add support for TransactionalID in KafkaUser resource
• Update to Kafka 2.0.1
• Add maintenance time windows support for allowing CA certificates renewal rolling update started only in specific times (#1117)

Full list of changes can be found under the 0.9.0 milestone.

0.8.2

• Run images under group 0 to avoid storage issues
• Fixing typos in documentation

0.8.1

• Fix certificate renewal issues

0.8.0

• Better support for TLS hostname verification for external connections
• Support for unencrypted external connections on LoadBalancers and NodePorts.
• Certificate renewal / expiration
• Mirror Maker operator
• Triggering rolling update / pod deletion manually

Full list of changes can be found under the 0.8.0 milestone.

0.8.0-rc1

• Better support for TLS hostname verification for external connections
• Support for unencrypted external connections on LoadBalancers and NodePorts.
• Certificate renewal / expiration
• Mirror Maker operator
• Triggering rolling update / pod deletion manually

Full list of changes can be found under the 0.8.0 milestone.

0.7.0

Main features

• Exposing Kafka to the outside using:
  • OpenShift Routes
  • LoadBalancers
  • NodePorts
• Use less wide RBAC permissions (ClusterRoleBindings where converted to RoleBindings where possible)
• Support for SASL authentication using the SCRAM-SHA-512 mechanism added to Kafka Connect and Kafka Connect with S2I support
• Network policies for managing access to Zookeeper ports and Kafka replication ports
• Use OwnerReference and Kubernetes garbage collection feature to delete resources and to track the ownership

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All changes merged for this release should be listed under the 0.7.0 milestone.

0.7.0-rc1

Main features

• Exposing Kafka to the outside using:
  • OpenShift Routes
  • LoadBalancers
  • NodePorts
• Use less wide RBAC permissions (ClusterRoleBindings where converted to RoleBindings where possible)
• Support for SASL authentication using the SCRAM-SHA-512 mechanism added to Kafka Connect and Kafka Connect with S2I support
• Network policies for managing access to Zookeeper ports and Kafka replication ports
• Use OwnerReference and Kubernetes garbage collection feature to delete resources and to track the ownership

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All changes merged for this release should be listed under the 0.7.0 milestone.

0.6.0

Main features

• Helm chart for Strimzi Cluster Operator
• Topic Operator moving to Custom Resources instead of Config Maps
• Make it possible to enabled and disable:
  • Listeners
  • Authorization
  • Authentication
• Configure Kafka super users (super.users field in Kafka configuration)
• User Operator
  • Managing users and their ACL rights
• Added new Entity Operator for deploying:
  • User Operator
  • Topic Operator
• Deploying the Topic Operator outside of the new Entity Operator is now deprecated
• Kafka 2.0.0
• Kafka Connect:
  • Added TLS support for connecting to the Kafka cluster
  • Added TLS client authentication when connecting to the Kafka cluster

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All changes merged for this release should be listed under the 0.6.0 milestone.

0.6.0-rc3

Changes compared to RC2

• Fixed documentation issue #776
• Fixed KafkaTopic and KafkaUser CRDs to work on OKD / OpenShift 3.10 #774