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Release date: 2022-12-16

We are excited to announce the release of Conduktor 1.8.0! This version introduces a new certificate management mechanism for Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry connections. Take advantage of the enhanced cluster configuration screens with authentication helpers in the Admin section. Additionally, this update brings numerous new events to the audit log, enabling comprehensive tracking of activities. Explore the complete list of audit events in the documentation. Other notable features include improvements to the Console, Monitoring, Topic as a Service, Testing, and Platform modules. Several bug fixes have also been implemented, resolving issues in Console, Data Masking, Monitoring, Testing, and Topic as a Service.

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Enhanced cluster configuration screens with auth helpers in Admin

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Upload certificates to support SSL cluster configurations

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Create Run Configurations in Testing for CI/CD executions

Features ✨​

  • Platform

    • Add ldapsearch tool to debug LDAP connections

  • Console

    • Improve the UX when there are no clusters configured or when the cluster is unreachable
    • Schema Registry - Schema details: new "Structure" tab displaying the structure of the Schema (only Avro is supported for now)
    • Consumer Groups: You can now create new Consumer Groups from the Consumer Groups page
    • New Audit Log events for Topics,Schema Registry,Consumer Groups and Connectors

  • Admin

    • Organization wide certificates management - See Docs
    • Cluster Configuration improvements
      • Add the TLS auto discovery on the schema registry and kafka connectors
      • Upload certificate ability if the TLS is discovered
      • UI improvements for easier auth configuration with SASL, SSL and AWS IAM connections
      • The authentication test now considers the "ignore untrusted certificate flag"
      • The authentication test displays the error message in a panel.

  • Monitoring

    • New UI graphing library being used with more detailed data point tracing (tooltip)

  • Topic as a Service

    • Applications
      • Access requests tab: You can now inspect if you have any topic access requests pending
      • When you have pending requests - it will be indicated in the application list and in the "Access requests" tab
      • Subscribed applications tab: you can now inspect which application has access to your application resources [by environment/by resource]

  • Testing

    • New way to integrate into CI, through a Run Configuration that you can update in the UI - See Docs
    • When creating a run configuration, we now provide helpers for major CI/CD platforms (Github Action, Circle CI, Gitlab, Jenkins)

Fix 🔨​

  • Platform

    • Ignore SSL validation is now working for LDAPS connections when setting sso.ignoreUntrustedCertificate: true

  • Console

    • Performance improvements
    • Kafka Connect: fix the metadata displayed
    • Consumer Groups: display correctly newly created Consumer Groups
    • Consumer Group View: Fix the sort on "Overall lag" column
    • Schema Registry - Subjects list: We now display a "⚠️" icon when a Subject has an issue instead

  • Data masking

    • Fixed caching issues

  • Monitoring

    • Fix rendering for topic analysis metrics

  • Testing

    • Fix missing Testing audit log events
    • Allow overriding Content-type in HTTP headers
    • Ignore orphan tasks
    • Updated docs links to point to the new documentation site

  • Topic as a service

    • Fix 'External topic access' table behavior

Important change when updating to Conduktor 1.18.0 (September 14th, 2023)​

Monitoring​

We are cleaning up our Docker image to bring you a simpler, lighter, and generally more operable product.

In that regard, we have extracted the 'Storage & Alerting' aspect of the Monitoring Solution from the base Console image and moved it to a dependency image.

Consequences:

  • If you didn't use Monitoring: No further action is required on your part. You won't be able to access the Monitoring module anymore.
  • If you used Monitoring: read the documentation to understand how to deploy and configure the dependency image conduktor/conduktor-console-cortex:1.18.0.

Embedded database​

As having a Postgres database is one of the production requirements we have, we decided to remove the embedded Postgres database from the Docker image. That way, having a Postgres database is now required to deploy Conduktor Console. If you want to get started and discover the product, here are guides for Docker and Kubernetes.

Testing​

In line with the deprecation of the Testing module, we have removed Testing from the base image.

Authentication​

Finally, we have rewritten our authentication module due to all those changes, to move to something far simpler. If you have any issues with authentication using LDAP or OIDC with this new release, please contact Conduktor Support.