Release candidate 2 of Strimzi test containers 0.100.0 is now available for testing.** The main changes from version 0.100-0-rc1 in this release include :

•  adds a variety of options how to configure broker to run Strimzi Kafka container:
• allow specifying docker image by StrimziKafkaContainer constructor
•  adds Kafka 3.1.0 and solves the problem with KRaft (adding new listener CONTROLLER)
• restriction KRaft for Kafka 2.8.1 (for using KRaft you need at least 3.0.0 Kafka version)
• added parameterized test cases
  

Images used by Strimzi test container

• quay.io/strimzi-test-container/test-container:0.100.0-rc2-kafka-3.1.0
• quay.io/strimzi-test-container/test-container:0.100.0-rc2-kafka-3.0.0
• quay.io/strimzi-test-container/test-container:0.100.0-rc2-kafka-2.8.1

 Maven artefacts

To test the Maven artefacts which are part of this release, use the staging repository by including the following in your pom.xml:

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>staging</id>
      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/iostrimzi-1155</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Release candidate 3 of Strimzi test containers 0.100.0 is now available for testing.* The main changes from version 0.100-0-rc2 in this release include:

• fix KRaft mode when Controller listens on the localhost instead of the container host

Images used by Strimzi test container (not change for images that's why rc2)
quay.io/strimzi-test-container/test-container:0.100.0-rc2-kafka-3.0.0
quay.io/strimzi-test-container/test-container:0.100.0-rc2-kafka-2.8.1

Maven artefacts
To test the Maven artefacts which are part of this release, use the staging repository by including the following in your pom.xml:
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>staging</id>
      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/iostrimzi-1156</url>
    </repository>