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RC4 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.17.0 is now available

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 4 of Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.17.0 is now available. There is only one additional fix since RC3:

* Make sure the ZookeeperScaler does work will with custom CAs without the PKCS12 files

For more details about the release candidate and the upgrade procedure, please go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.17.0-rc4

Unless there are any new issues, we will probably release it tomorrow.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


[ANNOUNCE] Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.17.0 is now available

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.17.0 has been released. The main changes since 0.16 include:
* Add possibility to set Java System Properties via CR yaml
* Add support for Mirror Maker 2.0
* Add Jmxtrans deployment
* Add public keys of TLS listeners to the status section of the Kafka CR
* Various bug-fixes
* Dependency upgrades to avoid CVEs
* Improved system tests and documentation

For more details about the release and the upgrade procedure, please go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.17.0

Full list of changes can be found under the [0.17.0 milestone](https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/milestone/16?closed=1).

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi team


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.4.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Hi,

Release Candidate 1 of the 0.4.0 version of the Strimzi Kafka OAuth library is now available for testing: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.4.0-rc1

The main changes are:
* Deprecated configuration options
* Compatibility improvements
* Updated dependencies
* Instructions for developers added
* Improvements to examples and documentation

To test it, you can use the staging Maven repository:

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>staging</id>
      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/iostrimzi-1062/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Any feedback can be provided here or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


[ANNOUNCE] Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.4.0 release

Jakub Scholz
 

The 0.4.0 version of the Strimzi Kafka OAuth library for using OAuth authentication in Kafka clients and brokers has been released and should be available in the Maven repositories. The main improvements are:
* Improved compatibility with different OAuth authorization servers
* Deprecation of some configuration options
* Updated dependencies
* Improved examples and documentation

For more information, see the release page on GitHub: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.4.0 

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


support for 2.4.1

alonisser@...
 

Does the new 0.17 operator uses kafka-connect 2.4.1 ? or still the 2.4.1 image?


Re: support for 2.4.1

Jakub Scholz
 

Kafka 2.4.1 will be supported in Strimzi 0.18.0. 0.17.0 supports only 2.4.0.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:06 PM <alonisser@...> wrote:
Does the new 0.17 operator uses kafka-connect 2.4.1 ? or still the 2.4.1 image?


[ANNOUNCE]: New maintainer: Sam Hawker

Tom Bentley
 

The Strimzi maintainers have invited Sam Hawker to become a maintainer and we're happy to announce that he has accepted. 

Sam has been doing some great work, with high quality PRs and code reviews and we're looking forward to what he can bring to the project going forward.

Congratulations Sam!

Tom, on behalf of the Strimzi maintainers.


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.5.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Hi,

Release Candidate 1 of the 0.5.0 version of the Strimzi Kafka OAuth library is now available for testing: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.5.0-rc1

The main changes are:
* Improved compatibility with authorization servers
* Fixed JWKS keys refresh bug
* Fixed a non-standard token_type enforcement when using the Introspection Endpoint
* Improved examples
* Improved logging to facilitate troubleshooting
* Bumped keycloak-core library version

To test it, you can use the staging Maven repository:

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>staging</id>
      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/iostrimzi-1064/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Any feedback can be provided here or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


[ANNOUNCE] New maintainer Jakub Stejskal

Jakub Scholz
 

I'm happy to announce that Jakub Stejskal has become a new Strimzi maintainer.

Jakub has already done a lot of great work on Strimzi:
* He does a great job on the system tests, which are a critical part of the project. Without him I'm not sure we would have any actual system test suite which we could use.
    * He writes regularly new tests and fixes bugs in existing tests
    * He reviews the system tests PRs written by other contributors
* He did all of the work on the migration of the system tests (and builds) to Azure Pipelines
* He is always ready to help anyone who has any issues with tests / system tests or look into any failures
* He is currently the fourth biggest committer of Strimzi operators

@Jakub: Thanks a lot for all the past and future work. It is great to have you here!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi maintainers team 



Re: [cncf-strimzi-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New maintainer Jakub Stejskal

Paolo Patierno
 

Congrats Jakub,
very well deserved!

Paolo Patierno
Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Microsoft MVP on Azure

Twitter : @ppatierno
Linkedin : paolopatierno
Blog : DevExperience


From: cncf-strimzi-dev@... <cncf-strimzi-dev@...> on behalf of Jakub Scholz <jakub@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:47 AM
To: cncf-strimzi-dev@... <cncf-strimzi-dev@...>; cncf-strimzi-users@... <cncf-strimzi-users@...>
Subject: [cncf-strimzi-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New maintainer Jakub Stejskal
 
I'm happy to announce that Jakub Stejskal has become a new Strimzi maintainer.

Jakub has already done a lot of great work on Strimzi:
* He does a great job on the system tests, which are a critical part of the project. Without him I'm not sure we would have any actual system test suite which we could use.
    * He writes regularly new tests and fixes bugs in existing tests
    * He reviews the system tests PRs written by other contributors
* He did all of the work on the migration of the system tests (and builds) to Azure Pipelines
* He is always ready to help anyone who has any issues with tests / system tests or look into any failures
* He is currently the fourth biggest committer of Strimzi operators

@Jakub: Thanks a lot for all the past and future work. It is great to have you here!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi maintainers team 



Re: [cncf-strimzi-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New maintainer Jakub Stejskal

Tom Bentley
 

Congratulations Jakub!

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:05 AM Paolo Patierno <ppatierno@...> wrote:
Congrats Jakub,
very well deserved!

Paolo Patierno
Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Microsoft MVP on Azure

Twitter : @ppatierno
Linkedin : paolopatierno
Blog : DevExperience

From: cncf-strimzi-dev@... <cncf-strimzi-dev@...> on behalf of Jakub Scholz <jakub@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:47 AM
To: cncf-strimzi-dev@... <cncf-strimzi-dev@...>; cncf-strimzi-users@... <cncf-strimzi-users@...>
Subject: [cncf-strimzi-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New maintainer Jakub Stejskal
 
I'm happy to announce that Jakub Stejskal has become a new Strimzi maintainer.

Jakub has already done a lot of great work on Strimzi:
* He does a great job on the system tests, which are a critical part of the project. Without him I'm not sure we would have any actual system test suite which we could use.
    * He writes regularly new tests and fixes bugs in existing tests
    * He reviews the system tests PRs written by other contributors
* He did all of the work on the migration of the system tests (and builds) to Azure Pipelines
* He is always ready to help anyone who has any issues with tests / system tests or look into any failures
* He is currently the fourth biggest committer of Strimzi operators

@Jakub: Thanks a lot for all the past and future work. It is great to have you here!

Thanks & Regards
Strimzi maintainers team 



RC2 of Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.5.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Release Candidate 2 of the 0.5.0 version of the Strimzi Kafka OAuth library is now available for testing: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.5.0-rc2

The only change since RC1 is the following bugfix:
* Fix scope support when refreshing the token (#55)

To test it, you can use the staging Maven repository:

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>staging</id>
      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/iostrimzi-1065/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Any feedback can be provided here or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Kafka OAuth library 0.5.0 released

Jakub Scholz
 

Hi,

Version 0.5.0 of the Strimzi Kafka OAuth library is now available: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-oauth/releases/tag/0.5.0.

The main changes since 0.4.0 are:
* Improved compatibility with authorization servers
* Fixed JWKS keys refresh bug
* Fixed a non-standard token_type enforcement when using the Introspection Endpoint
* Improved examples
* Improved logging to facilitate troubleshooting
* Bumped keycloak-core library version

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this release by raising issues, opening PRs etc.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.16.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Hi,

Release Candidate 1 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.16.0 is now available for testing. The main changes since 0.15 include:
* Add support for CORS in the HTTP part of the Bridge
* Various bugfixes and dependencies updates


Any feedback can be provided here or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


[ANNOUNCE] Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.16.0 released!

Jakub Scholz
 

Version 0.16.0 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge has been released. The main changes include:
* Add support for CORS
* Various bugfixes and dependencies updates


Thanks to everyone who contributed to these releases.

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


2020 CNCF Cloud Native Survey

Tom Bentley
 

People using (or considering using) cloud native technologies (including Strimzi) might want to fill in the 2020 CNCF Cloud Native Survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WZLF3TB

The results (and data) will be open sourced (you can see last year's report here: https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CNCF_Survey_Report.pdf).


RC1 of Strimzi Operators 0.18.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Hi,

Release Candidate 1 of Strimzi Operators 0.18.0 is now available for testing. The main changes since the 0.17.0 release include:
* Add possibility to set Java System Properties via custom resources
* Make it possible to configure PodManagementPolicy for StatefulSets
* Update build system to use `yq` version 3 (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq)
* Add more metrics to Cluster, User and Topic Operators
* New Grafana dashboard for Operator monitoring
* Allow `ssl.cipher.suites`, `ssl.protocol` and `ssl.enabled.protocols` to be configurable for Kafka and the different components supported by Strimzi
* Add support for user configurable SecurityContext for each Strimzi container
* Add support for Kafka 2.4.1 and 2.5.0
* Remove TLS sidecars from ZooKeeper pods, using native ZooKeeper TLS support instead
* Use Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.16.0 with support for CORS in the HTTP protocol
* Pass HTTP Proxy configuration from operator to operands


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

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


RC2 of Strimzi Operators 0.18.0

Jakub Scholz
 

Hi,

Release Candidate 2 of Strimzi Operators 0.18.0 is now available for testing. Compared to RC1, it includes some bug fixes:
* Improve the `KafkaRebalance` resources
* Add the `KafkaRebalance` resource to the `strimzi` category
* Add `KafkaRebalance` resources to Operators Grafana dashboard
* Make sure TLS protocol can be configured in Kafka brokers
* Fix Prometheus installation guide


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

Thanks & Regards
Jakub


[ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE] Strimzi Kafka Operators 0.18.0 released

Jakub Scholz
 

Strimzi Kafka Operators version 0.18.0 has been released. The main new features since 0.17.0 include:
* Add possibility to set Java System Properties via custom resources
* Make it possible to configure PodManagementPolicy for StatefulSets
* Add more metrics to Cluster, User and Topic Operators
* New Grafana dashboard for Operator monitoring
* Allow `ssl.cipher.suites`, `ssl.protocol` and `ssl.enabled.protocols` to be configurable for Kafka and the different components supported by Strimzi
* Add support for user configurable SecurityContext for each Strimzi container
* Add support for Kafka 2.4.1 and 2.5.0
* Remove TLS sidecars from ZooKeeper pods, using native ZooKeeper TLS support instead
* Use Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.16.0 with support for CORS in the HTTP protocol
* Pass HTTP Proxy configuration from operator to operands
* Add Cruise Control support

More details about the release and the download files are available on the Git Hub release page: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.18.0. Documentation and Quick Starts can be found on our website https://strimzi.io/.

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this release by raising issues, opening PRs etc.

On behalf of the Strimzi maintainers
Jakub


RC1 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.17.0

Paolo Patierno
 

Hi all,

Release Candidate 1 of Strimzi Kafka Bridge 0.17.0 is now available for testing.
The main changes since 0.16.0 include:

* Added an Admin Client endpoint and related API for getting topics list and topic details
* Made available bridge information (i.e. version) on the root `/` endpoint
* Exposed HTTP server, JVM and Kafka consumer and producer related metrics in the Prometheus format
* Added `tini` usage for running the bridge in containerized environment
* Use `log4j2` instead of `log4j`


Any feedback can be provided here or as a GitHub issue.

Thanks

Paolo Patierno
Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Microsoft MVP on Azure

Twitter : @ppatierno
Linkedin : paolopatierno
Blog : DevExperience