Strimzi Operators 0.21.0 is now available with a lot of important changes and improvements. The main changes since the 0.20.0 release include:

* Add support for Kafka 2.7.0

* Add support for declarative management of connector plugins in Kafka Connect CR 

* Add `inter.broker.protocol.version` to the default configuration in example YAMLs

* Add support for `secretPrefix` property for User Operator to prefix all secret names created from KafkaUser resource.

* Allow configuring labels and annotations for Cluster CA certificate secrets

* Add the JAAS configuration string in the sasl.jaas.config property to the generated secrets for KafkaUser with SCRAM-SHA-512 authentication.

* Strimzi `test-container` has been renamed to `strimzi-test-container` to make the name more clear

* Updated the CPU usage metric in the Kafka, ZooKeeper and Cruise Control dashboards to include the CPU kernel time (other than the current user time)

* Allow disabling ownerReference on CA secrets

* Make it possible to run Strimzi operators and operands with read-only root filesystem

* Move from Docker Hub to Quay.io as our container registry

* Add possibility to configure DeploymentStrategy for Kafka Connect, Kafka Mirror Maker (1 and 2), and Kafka Bridge

* Support passing metrics configuration as an external ConfigMap

* Enable CORS configuration for Cruise Control

* Add support for rolling individual Kafka or ZooKeeper pods through the Cluster Operator using an annotation

* Add support for Topology Spread Constraints in Pod templates

* Make Kafka `cluster-id` (KIP-78) available on Kafka CRD status

* The `metrics` field in the Strimzi custom resources has been deprecated and will be removed in the future. For configuring metrics, use the new `metricsConfig` field and pass the configuration via ConfigMap.

For more details and installation files, go to https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/0.21.0

Thanks & Regards

Strimzi team