Strimzi Kafka Operator Versions Save

Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes

0.36.1-rc1

9 months ago

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.36.1 supports only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer! Kubernetes versions 1.19 and 1.20 are not supported anymore since Strimzi 0.36.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

Main changes since 0.36.0

  • Support for Apache Kafka 3.5.1
  • Fix Grafana Dashboards in the Helm Chart
  • Fix issues with 2-node ZooKeeper deployment
  • Documentation fixes

All changes can be found under the 0.36.1 milestone.

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts 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-1192/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.36.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:e9e03b31007c0f9b67a6a33e6b644e8c1ba35bd9976804ee3d22a04e4bf511b1
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:a0da6a48b5bcbff355365f07df2d99ef6443d22c5690495f10a6417e761b3799
Apache Kafka 3.4.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:9f35f40be3d47b0cb1f6628f7ffd9c6a687ab9f564829f341dd66fd0759c064f
Apache Kafka 3.5.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:67c2b563a65c85c9393608f9af7eaf12ea48dcc0ef5f726d51f27273a3845186
Apache Kafka 3.5.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:ea35817ff1ef295c682d70562f209ef658fcd87c61f467a4549d7a2f39e71700
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:fefee252895e9f94756ed5c9ea71749e3fa89281df01bc55878a244ca7d17697
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:5ff9fc7d0b7b694875ad0150fc787c582d42da3b4864d807ee8a6524e47b0e4e
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:2a469b40122027b981914db5b5c102be48280e039c3089963422c181174af226

0.36.0

9 months ago

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.36.0 supports only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer! Kubernetes versions 1.19 and 1.20 are not supported anymore since Strimzi 0.36.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

Main changes since 0.35

This release contains the following new features and improvements:

  • Add support for Apache Kafka 3.4.1 and 3.5.0, and remove support for 3.3.1 and 3.3.2
  • Enable SCRAM-SHA authentication in KRaft mode (supported in Apache Kafka 3.5.0 and newer)
  • Add support for insecure flag in Maven artifacts in Kafka Connect Build
  • Improve Kafka rolling update to avoid rolling broker in log recovery
  • Added support for Kafka Exporter topic exclude and consumer group exclude parameters
  • Add support for Kafka node pools according to Strimzi Proposal #50
  • Add support for Unidirectional Topic Operator according to Strimzi Proposal #51
  • Fixed ordering of JVM performance options #8579

It also has several notable changes, deprecations, and removals:

  • From Strimzi 0.36.0 on, we support only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer. Kubernetes 1.19 and 1.20 are not supported anymore.
  • Enabling the UseKRaft feature gate is now possible only together with the KafkaNodePools feature gate. To deploy a Kafka cluster in the KRaft mode, you have to use the KafkaNodePool resources.
  • The Helm Chart repository at https://strimzi.io/charts/ is now deprecated. Please use the Helm Chart OCI artifacts from our Helm Chart OCI repository instead.
  • Option customClaimCheck of 'oauth' authentication which relies on JsonPath changed the handling of equal comparison against null as the behaviour was buggy and is now fixed in the updated version of JsonPath library OAuth #196

All changes can be found under the 0.36.0 milestone.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.35.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operator quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:e18d4a9c4b6d91ddac2207bedd792f695c054ed3692727872b36b6435cd95f7b
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:03e59830d18b7816be25ca83b09542b1215b251eee281609d10fe137737ee6da
Apache Kafka 3.4.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:0241d35e31c1116d5b0b81d611a50546990703e00ebfaadbe6f5af7c2fd6a9bd
Apache Kafka 3.5.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:85865eb4403d0e8644cd04f3dba9f9527f56f546822ce0bed370260167490951
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:3c10093c460f91f39d77a301c6f66698c7c3833b0fa69262e4114e6293d50e77
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:5ff9fc7d0b7b694875ad0150fc787c582d42da3b4864d807ee8a6524e47b0e4e
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:78ca90e6903ec44b2d2bfbc8c73c44aa7bf7007b7659622d38e1191d28a0d037

0.36.0-rc1

9 months ago

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.36.0 supports only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer! Kubernetes versions 1.19 and 1.20 are not supported anymore since Strimzi 0.36.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

Main changes since 0.35

This release contains the following new features and improvements:

  • Add support for Apache Kafka 3.4.1 and 3.5.0, and remove support for 3.3.1 and 3.3.2
  • Enable SCRAM-SHA authentication in KRaft mode (supported in Apache Kafka 3.5.0 and newer)
  • Add support for insecure flag in Maven artifacts in Kafka Connect Build
  • Improve Kafka rolling update to avoid rolling broker in log recovery
  • Added support for Kafka Exporter topic exclude and consumer group exclude parameters
  • Add support for Kafka node pools according to Strimzi Proposal #50
  • Add support for Unidirectional Topic Operator according to Strimzi Proposal #51
  • Fixed ordering of JVM performance options #8579

It also has several notable changes, deprecations, and removals:

  • From Strimzi 0.36.0 on, we support only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer. Kubernetes 1.19 and 1.20 are not supported anymore.
  • Enabling the UseKRaft feature gate is now possible only together with the KafkaNodePools feature gate. To deploy a Kafka cluster in the KRaft mode, you have to use the KafkaNodePool resources.
  • The Helm Chart repository at https://strimzi.io/charts/ is now deprecated. Please use the Helm Chart OCI artifacts from our Helm Chart OCI repository instead.
  • Option customClaimCheck of 'oauth' authentication which relies on JsonPath changed the handling of equal comparison against null as the behaviour was buggy and is now fixed in the updated version of JsonPath library OAuth #196

All changes can be found under the 0.36.0 milestone.

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts 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-1189/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.35.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:e18d4a9c4b6d91ddac2207bedd792f695c054ed3692727872b36b6435cd95f7b
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:03e59830d18b7816be25ca83b09542b1215b251eee281609d10fe137737ee6da
Apache Kafka 3.4.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:0241d35e31c1116d5b0b81d611a50546990703e00ebfaadbe6f5af7c2fd6a9bd
Apache Kafka 3.5.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:85865eb4403d0e8644cd04f3dba9f9527f56f546822ce0bed370260167490951
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:3c10093c460f91f39d77a301c6f66698c7c3833b0fa69262e4114e6293d50e77
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:5ff9fc7d0b7b694875ad0150fc787c582d42da3b4864d807ee8a6524e47b0e4e
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:78ca90e6903ec44b2d2bfbc8c73c44aa7bf7007b7659622d38e1191d28a0d037

0.35.1

11 months ago

Main changes since 0.35.0

Bug Fixes

  • Update Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to 6.7.0

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.35.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:06a94a3021cf028ccc1a49271f35f79216029e344536e664f196c1725ff2c663
Apache Kafka 3.3.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:4de4874a7b722ad813f4dcc58acf509527bca0609999b81e70d81e3b38534d9d
Apache Kafka 3.3.2 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:0d910e7138cb49e1cd8cd84cef88bce35698b93ddd683a3398f1d485a3162693
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:54c6b25b31f51ef401c1b6e2a1b27432911e819bf3e502e05186f01be3f798e5
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:d6be183e492f8f88157ab9fe0af53950df8b6711a8a8c33da465de6064f6f86e
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:39778b90c2b2afc30261e4ad5135805e1a10a2b60e2e53108fb9f80487f1208a
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:88a79eff3b3a386880a630658964b7754caed9e99dd6e645a4c0d23d0fdb47ee

0.35.1-rc1

11 months ago

Main changes since 0.35.0

Bug Fixes

  • Update Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to 6.7.0

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts 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-1182/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.35.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:06a94a3021cf028ccc1a49271f35f79216029e344536e664f196c1725ff2c663
Apache Kafka 3.3.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:4de4874a7b722ad813f4dcc58acf509527bca0609999b81e70d81e3b38534d9d
Apache Kafka 3.3.2 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:0d910e7138cb49e1cd8cd84cef88bce35698b93ddd683a3398f1d485a3162693
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:54c6b25b31f51ef401c1b6e2a1b27432911e819bf3e502e05186f01be3f798e5
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:d6be183e492f8f88157ab9fe0af53950df8b6711a8a8c33da465de6064f6f86e
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:39778b90c2b2afc30261e4ad5135805e1a10a2b60e2e53108fb9f80487f1208a
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:88a79eff3b3a386880a630658964b7754caed9e99dd6e645a4c0d23d0fdb47ee

0.35.0

1 year ago

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.35.0 is the last version with support for Kubernetes 1.19 and 1.20. From Strimzi 0.36, only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer will be supported.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

Main changes since 0.34

New features and improvements

  • Move feature gate UseStrimziPodSets to GA and remove support for StatefulSets
  • Remove support for JMX Trans
  • Redesigned the Cluster and User Operator configuration to make it more efficient and flexible
  • Allow multiple imagePullSecrets in the Strimzi Helm chart
  • Add flag to load Grafana dashboards from Helm Chart

All changes can be found under the 0.35.0 milestone.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.34.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:59df996575607fc4fe348c54904b782a5691688a66c71abeca2bf127a2433180
Apache Kafka 3.3.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:2249dad688c10237cbaad20ad5575561ac844429acba2a85cd526f11ee6707c6
Apache Kafka 3.3.2 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:56e2fc1c2a4c8aaa517478f228ab9ea81c9a8f990b86bac2c0896338e3f4656c
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:cab70fa2bb9b731209ed1c4829e1e8a6ac37bff62b6443b79c9ec744b02c9256
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:d6be183e492f8f88157ab9fe0af53950df8b6711a8a8c33da465de6064f6f86e
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:39778b90c2b2afc30261e4ad5135805e1a10a2b60e2e53108fb9f80487f1208a
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:2ee5d1a63dc56c31f9c30755bb7564952752bcd39c45d00dfea42c09673eaa0e

0.35.0-rc1

1 year ago

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.35.0 is the last version with support for Kubernetes 1.19 and 1.20. From Strimzi 0.36, only Kubernetes 1.21 and newer will be supported.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

Main changes since 0.34

New features and improvements

  • Move feature gate UseStrimziPodSets to GA and remove support for StatefulSets
  • Remove support for JMX Trans
  • Redesigned the Cluster and User Operator configuration to make it more efficient and flexible
  • Allow multiple imagePullSecrets in the Strimzi Helm chart
  • Add flag to load Grafana dashboards from Helm Chart

All changes can be found under the 0.35.0 milestone.

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts 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-1180/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.34.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:59df996575607fc4fe348c54904b782a5691688a66c71abeca2bf127a2433180
Apache Kafka 3.3.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:2249dad688c10237cbaad20ad5575561ac844429acba2a85cd526f11ee6707c6
Apache Kafka 3.3.2 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:56e2fc1c2a4c8aaa517478f228ab9ea81c9a8f990b86bac2c0896338e3f4656c
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:cab70fa2bb9b731209ed1c4829e1e8a6ac37bff62b6443b79c9ec744b02c9256
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:98eb7542e3ff4e10043040acff7a90aa5fd87ff1ea0cac8491f66b1bbdf072dd
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:39778b90c2b2afc30261e4ad5135805e1a10a2b60e2e53108fb9f80487f1208a
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:2ee5d1a63dc56c31f9c30755bb7564952752bcd39c45d00dfea42c09673eaa0e

0.34.0

1 year ago

Main changes since 0.33

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.34.0 supports only Kubernetes 1.19 and newer! Kubernetes versions 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18 are not supported anymore since Strimzi 0.32.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

New features and improvements

  • Add support for Kafka 3.4.0 and remove support for Kafka 3.2.x
  • Stable Pod identities for Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker 2 (Feature Gate StableConnectIdentities)
  • Use JDK HTTP client in the Kubernetes client instead of the OkHttp client
  • Add TLS truststore configuration for HTTPS connections to OPA server
  • Add image digest support in Helm chart
  • Update Strimzi HTTP Bridge to 0.25.0 and strimzi Oauth to 0.12.0

All changes can be found under the 0.34.0 milestone.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.33.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name Image
Operators quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:f4ee3ca482a2dd19785f59634578a0850273444c1173a5699a99cf02f3a018fe
Apache Kafka 3.3.1 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:1da35fd7b36b113d1343e254fdc6efd97ca8660cc7977d8985aa3a3547d5ebb1
Apache Kafka 3.3.2 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:1ace2cc0db9653ac1b388477fa56c3c1cd97c7b3846eba3c7824dc58ea179476
Apache Kafka 3.4.0 quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:37cf8d0fea1d2078511920190a72b49977ff4047b6ecbfed6b394c6f9e1e2ff0
Strimzi Bridge quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:51babca0f7a328f4db005c6a16daa8ac4a4306c46fe3ca89382919134aa09179
JMX Trans quay.io/strimzi/jmxtrans@sha256:62272e8a03da2144340bd7267f7a824d1ed70f4f3e30dc7aadfba9ee1b9baf76
Kaniko executor quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:dc27d8aeb851245c79fb7276febe98769cc098d678bea096b338caaaf111dd27
Maven Builder quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:f781b6b857d437c2de62585462e97b9fae357912c9f6711c1df39f431278878d

0.34.0-rc1

1 year ago

Main changes since 0.33

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.34.0 supports only Kubernetes 1.19 and newer! Kubernetes versions 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18 are not supported anymore since Strimzi 0.32.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

New features and improvements

  • Add support for Kafka 3.4.0 and remove support for Kafka 3.2.x
  • Stable Pod identities for Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker 2 (Feature Gate StableConnectIdentities)
  • Use JDK HTTP client in the Kubernetes client instead of the OkHttp client
  • Add TLS truststore configuration for HTTPS connections to OPA server
  • Add image digest support in Helm chart
  • Update Strimzi HTTP Bridge to 0.25.0 and strimzi Oauth to 0.12.0

All changes can be found under the 0.34.0 milestone.

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts 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-1177/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.33.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

0.33.2

1 year ago

Main changes since 0.33.1

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.33.2 supports only Kubernetes 1.19 and newer! Kubernetes versions 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18 are not supported anymore since Strimzi 0.32.

⚠️ Important: Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore!

Bug Fixes

  • Support for Kafka 3.4.0 which fixes CVE-2023-25194
  • Fix RBAC files in standalone User Operator installation files