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[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.27.0 and Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.3.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.27.0 has been released. The main changes in this release include:
* (Experimental) support for AArch64 / ARM64 platform
* The ControlPlaneListener and ServiceAccountPatching feature gates are now in the beta phase and are enabled by default.
* Updated Log4j2 dependency to 2.17.0

For more details and installation files, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.27.0

We have also created a video about the changes in this release which you can watch on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/cdAz997VC_0

Important: This release supports only the API version v1beta2 and CRD version apiextensions.k8s.io/v1. If upgrading from Strimzi 0.22, migration to v1beta2 needs to be completed for all Strimzi CRDs and CRs before the upgrade to 0.27 is done! If upgrading from Strimzi version earlier than 0.22, you need to first install the CRDs from Strimzi 0.22 and complete the migration to v1beta2 for all Strimzi CRDs and CRs before the upgrade to 0.27 is done! For more details about the CRD upgrades, see the documentation.

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We also released Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.3.0. The main changes in this release include support for both v1beta1 and v1 versions of the Eviction API and updates of dependencies.

For more details and installation files, go to https://github.com/strimzi/drain-cleaner/releases/tag/0.3.0

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Thanks to everyone who contributed to these releases!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC2 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.27.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release candidate 2 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.27.0 is now available for testing. The changes since RC1 are:
* Fixed AArch64 version of the kaniko-executor container image
* Add Canary installation files to release archives


Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.27.0 and Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.3.0 available for testing

Jakub Scholz
 

Release candidate 1 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.27.0 is now available for testing. The main changes in this release include:
* (Experimental) support for AArch64 / ARM64 platform
* The ControlPlaneListener and ServiceAccountPatching feature gates are now in the beta phase and are enabled by default.
* Updated Log4j2 dependency to 2.17.0


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Also available is Release Candidate 1 of the Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.3.0. The main changes in this release include support for both v1beta1 and v1 versions of the Eviction API and updates of dependencies.

For more details and installation files, go to https://github.com/strimzi/drain-cleaner/releases/tag/0.3.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Operators 0.26.1

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Operators release 0.26.1 is now available. The main change in this release is the fix for the Log4j2 CVE-2021-44228. For more details, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.26.1

The updates to OperatorHub.io and OpenShift OperatorHub are still work in progress. The Java artifacts might need some additional time to propagate.

If you for some reason cannot upgrade to Strimzi 0.26.1, you can check the possible mitigations on GitHub Discussions.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.21.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.21.0 is now available. It will be also used in the upcoming  0.27.0 and 0.26.1 releases of Strimzi Operators. The main changes in this release are support for Arm64 / AArch64 architecture and the fix for the Log4j2 CVE-2021-44228. For more details, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-bridge/releases/tag/0.21.0

If you use an older version of the Strimzi Cluster Operator which uses Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.20.x, you should be able to run the 0.21.0 version without any problems. Just edit the Cluster Operator deployment and set the STRIMZI_DEFAULT_KAFKA_BRIDGE_IMAGE environment variable to quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge:0.21.0.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC2 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.21.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 2 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge the 0.21.0 is now available for testing. The only change since RC1 is the update of the Log4j dependency which fixes CVE-2021-4428.  More details and a full list of changes can be found on the GitHub release page: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-bridge/releases/tag/0.21.0-rc2

Any feedback can be provided on the mailing list, on Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.21.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 1 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge the 0.21.0 is now available for testing. The main changes since 0.20.x are experimental support for AArch64 / ARM64 architectures. More details and a full list of changes can be found on the GitHub release page: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-bridge/releases/tag/0.21.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the mailing list, on Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.2.0 released

Jakub Scholz
 

We have released Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.2.0. Strimzi Drain Cleaner is a utility which helps with moving the Kafka pods deployed by Strimzi from Kubernetes nodes which are being drained. The version 0.2.0 delivers several minor bugfixes and improvements. For more details about what Drain Cleaner does and how to use it, check the README.md file.

For more details and installation files, go to: https://github.com/strimzi/drain-cleaner/releases/tag/0.2.0

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.2.0

Jakub Scholz
 

We have prepared the RC1 of the first release (0.2.0) of Strimzi Drain Cleaner. It delivers several minor bugfixes and improvements.

For more details and installation files, go to: https://github.com/strimzi/drain-cleaner/releases/tag/0.2.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Operators 0.26.0 released

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Operators 0.26.0 has been released. The main changes since the 0.25 release include:
* Add support for Kafka 2.8.1 and 3.0.0; remove Kafka 2.7.0 and 2.7.1
* Expose JMX port on Zookeeper nodes via a headless service
* Allow configuring labels and annotations for JMX authentication secrets
* Add support for building connector images from the Maven coordinates
* Allow Kafka Connect Build artifacts to be downloaded from insecure servers
* Add option to specify pull secret in Kafka Connect Build on OpenShift
* Configurable authentication, authorization, and SSL for Cruise Control API
* Allow configuring `/tmp` volume size via Pod template (by default `1Mi` is used)

There are also several deprecations and removals. For more details and installation files, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.26.0

We have also created a video about the changes in this release which you can watch on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/886Nw_ECREQ

Important: This release supports only the API version v1beta2 and CRD version apiextensions.k8s.io/v1. If upgrading from Strimzi 0.22, migration to v1beta2 needs to be completed for all Strimzi CRDs and CRs before the upgrade to 0.26 is done! If upgrading from Strimzi version earlier than 0.22, you need to first install the CRDs from Strimzi 0.22 and complete the migration to v1beta2 for all Strimzi CRDs and CRs before the upgrade to 0.26 is done! For more details about the CRD upgrades, see the documentation.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.26.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 1 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.26.0 is now available for testing with a lot of changes and improvements. 

Important: This release supports only the API version v1beta2 and CRD version apiextensions.k8s.io/v1. If upgrading from Strimzi 0.22, migration to v1beta2 needs to be completed for all Strimzi CRDs and CRs before the upgrade to 0.26 is done! If upgrading from Strimzi version earlier than 0.22, you need to first install the CRDs from Strimzi 0.22 and complete the migration to v1beta2 for all Strimzi CRDs and CRs before the upgrade to 0.26 is done! For more details about the CRD upgrades, see the documentation.

The main changes since the 0.25 release include:
* Add support for Kafka 2.8.1 and 3.0.0; remove Kafka 2.7.0 and 2.7.1
* Expose JMX port on Zookeeper nodes via a headless service
* Allow configuring labels and annotations for JMX authentication secrets
* Add support for building connector images from the Maven coordinates
* Allow Kafka Connect Build artifacts to be downloaded from insecure servers
* Add option to specify pull secret in Kafka Connect Build on OpenShift
* Configurable authentication, authorization, and SSL for Cruise Control API
* Allow configuring `/tmp` volume size via Pod template (by default `1Mi` is used)

There are also several deprecations, removals and other notable changes. For more details and installation files, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.26.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.20.3

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.20.3 is now available. It will be also used in the 0.26.0 release of Strimzi Operators. The release contains several updated dependencies and minor bugfixes. For more details, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-bridge/releases/tag/0.20.3

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.9.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.9.0 has been released. The main changes are:
* Support for Kafka 3.0.0
* KeycloakRBACAuthorizer and OAuthSessionAuthorizer migrated to KIP-504
* Fixed a parsing bug in KeycloakRBACAuthorizer
* Fixed concurrency issue with OAuth over PLAIN
* Improved error reporting when using Quarkus native without the https enabled
* Token type check now also passes if ‘token_type: “Bearer”’ claim is present in JWT token

For more details, please visit https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.9.0

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi Team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Mirror Maker 2 Extensions 1.1.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Mirror Maker 2 Extensions 1.1.0 has been released. The main change is support for Apache Kafka 3.0.0. For more details about the release, please visit: https://github.com/strimzi/mirror-maker-2-extensions/releases/tag/1.1.0

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi Team


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.9.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 1 of Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.9.0 is now available for testing. The main changes are:
* Support for Kafka 3.0.0
* KeycloakRBACAuthorizer and OAuthSessionAuthorizer migrated to KIP-504
* Fixed a parsing bug in KeycloakRBACAuthorizer
* Fixed concurrency issue with OAuth over PLAIN
* Improved error reporting when using Quarkus native without the https enabled
* Token type check now also passes if 'token_type: "Bearer"' claim is present in JWT token

For more details, please see https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.9.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Mirror Maker 2 Extensions 1.1.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 1 of Mirror Maker 2 Extensions 1.1.0 is now available for testing. The main change is support for Apache Kafka 3.0.0. For more details about the RC, visit https://github.com/strimzi/mirror-maker-2-extensions/releases/tag/1.1.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] New release of Strimzi Quotas Plugin and Strimzi Configuration Providers

Jakub Scholz
 

New versions of Kafka Quotas Plugin, EnvVar Configuration Provider and Kubernetes Configuration Provider have been released with minor improvements, bugfixes and dependency updates. For more details, visit the release pages of each project:

* Kafka Quota Plugins: https://github.com/strimzi/kafka-quotas-plugin/releases/tag/0.2.0
* Kafka EnvVar Configuration Provider: https://github.com/strimzi/kafka-env-var-config-provider/releases/tag/0.1.1
* Kafka Kubernetes Configuration Provider: https://github.com/strimzi/kafka-kubernetes-config-provider/releases/tag/0.1.1

Thanks to everyone who contributed to any of these releases!

Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Kafka Quota Plugin 0.2.0, EnvVar Configuration Provider 0.1.1 and Kubernetes Configuration Provider 0.1.1

Jakub Scholz
 

As we are preparing for the next release of the Strimzi operators, we are doing different minor and path releases of the dependencies. Today, we released the Release Candidate 1 of several sub-projects:
* Kafka Quota Plugins: https://github.com/strimzi/kafka-quotas-plugin/releases/tag/0.2.0-rc1
* Kafka EnvVar Configuration Provider: https://github.com/strimzi/kafka-env-var-config-provider/releases/tag/0.1.1-rc1
* Kafka Kubernetes Configuration Provider: https://github.com/strimzi/kafka-kubernetes-config-provider/releases/tag/0.1.1-rc1

They contain some smaller bug fixes and improvements as well as updated dependencies. If you are interested, give them a try! Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.1.0 released

Jakub Scholz
 

We have released the first version (0.1.0) of Strimzi Drain Cleaner. Strimzi Drain Cleaner is a utility which helps with moving the Kafka pods deployed by Strimzi from Kubernetes nodes which are being drained. For more details about what it does and how to use it, check the README.md file.

For more details and installation files, go to: https://github.com/strimzi/drain-cleaner/releases/tag/0.1.0

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Strimzi Drain Cleaner 0.1.0

Jakub Scholz
 

We have prepared the RC1 of the first release (0.1.0) of Strimzi Drain Cleaner. Strimzi Drain Cleaner is a utility which helps with moving the Kafka pods deployed by Strimzi from Kubernetes nodes which are being drained. For more details about what it does and how to use it, check the README.md file.

For more details and installation files, go to: https://github.com/strimzi/drain-cleaner/releases/tag/0.1.0-rc1

Any feedback can be provided on the Strimzi mailing list, on the #strimzi Slack channel on CNCF Slack or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team