v1.0.0 (17-December-2024)

Added

• Oauth support for Strimzi, Azure Event Hub (Microsoft Entra) and AWS (IAM)
• Ability to remove consumer group topic (start again)
• View log buttons from various screens
• Delete icon to Schema Registry versions table
• Debug Linux/MacOS/Windows scripts
• Ability to send null headers
• Ability to export, import, and reset settings on MacOS (previously Windows/Linux only)
• RPM package for Linux

Changed

• Using runtime instead of native image
• Issue submission max chars increase to 40k chars
• Improved logging format
• Validation icons coloured
• MacOS portable ZIP now contains standard app bundle and scripts outside of bundle

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Native image

Fixed

• ACL producer validation bug
• Kerberos configuration bug
• SASL example bug, some values remaining during example switch

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.11 (28-November-2024)

Added

• Debug startup scripts batch/shell scripts for Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Ability to view logs directly from some dialogs
• Ability to send null headers in an event/message
• Ability to unsubscribe/delete completely consumer topic offsets
• EXPERIMENTAL: Strimzi sasl.client.callback.handler.class support (io.strimzi.kafka.oauth.clientJaasClientOauthLoginCallbackHandler)

Changed

• Added delete icon on schema versions table column
• Better logging
• Ability to alter offsets directly from subscribed topics offsets tab (via context menu)
• Validation warnings and errors in colour

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Potential NPE when displaying topics if error determining offsets (due to Kafka version incompatibility or other error)
• ACL producer form validation bug
• No longer displaying SSL truststore config at times on schema registry or security, if SSL disabled (introduced 0.0.9)

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.10 (12-November-2024)

Added

• Open config file in text editor
• Report issues, feature requests, feedback from GUI or via browser
• Show logs folder, in console, or latest log in text editor
• Schema registry creation/update confirmation popup
• Search messages view tooltips / info
• Search messages pane collapsable checkbox
• Warnings if schema-encoded keys or values are detected without Schema Registry deserializer

Changed

• Rename from KafkaTopical to KafkIO
• Always create a config file even if no clusters configured
• Search messages search box right aligned

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Missing JSWBlend_ADDPeer hint on Linux caused errors/display
• Issue natively opening files on some Linux distros, now fall back to xdg-open
• Minor display/styling
• Honouring do not show hints setting in some dialogs

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.9 (05-November-2024)

Added

• Copy Kafka event details to clipboard from event/message table context menu
• Splash screen
• Full ACL administration capability

Changed

• Nothing

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Some style issues to prevent minor movement caused by buttons changing size

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.8 (24-October-2024)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Nothing

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Critical startup FileSystemNotFoundException error, where app fails to load on new installs
• Fixing run_console.bat on Windows, which incorrectly assumed "cat" exists by default on Windows machines

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.7 (23-October-2024)

Added

• Text search for schemas, messages, and produce message dialogs
• Schema Registry schema creation & editing

Changed

• Faster display of messages (modal popup time minimised)
• Cut/undo/redo/delete in produce message context menus
• Display improvements (compacting) for smaller screens
• Various performance improvements
• Various UI improvements

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Some undesired sout logging from time picker control

Fixed

• Schema ID and type fields' labels were mixed up on key/message value popups
• Minor performance improvements

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.6 (29-August-2024)

Added

• Topic deletion warning in the event where a deleted topic still persists

Changed

• Partition and offset info on lower message pane view, and popup

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• SASL SCRAM incorrect sasl.mechanism value bug fixed

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.5 (28-August-2024)

Added

• Consumer administration (at cluster or topic level)
• Consumer group delete
• Consumer offset reset earliest
• Consumer offset reset latest
• Consumer offset reset by timestamp
• Consumer offset reset by specified offsets

Changed

• Nothing

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Nothing

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.4 (13-August-2024)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Nothing

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Schema Registry reflection error
• Adding header to message reflection error
• macOs portable ZIP README.txt typos

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.3 (12-August-2024)

Added

• Create topics
• Alter topic settings
• Clear topic messages
• Delete topics
• Produce messages with key, value (empty and null), headers, and partition
• Serializer/deserializer support for unsigned 32-bit and 64-bit integers

Changed

• Files run.sh and README.txt now in macOS portable ZIP
• File README.txt now Linux portable ZIP
• clusters.yml format change seamless migration
• Clearly show difference between empty and null value in messages table and details views
• Better visual differentiation between line numbers and contents (i.e., a message)

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Reduced card shadow glow

Fixed

• Some info popup text improvements
• Config file reader less sensitive to unknown properties

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.2 (20-July-2024)

Added

• Nothing

Changed

• Nothing

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Accessibility tools/readers could trigger errors
• Some embedded binaries would fail to load due to MacOS security (third-party and not signed), and architectural naming conflicts. Notably snappy, lz4 & zstd binaries were affected.

Security

• Nothing

v0.0.1 (19-July-2024)

Added

• Configure/delete/edit cluster connections
• Test broker and schema registry connection
• SSL and SASL
• Logs, and rolling logs
• Event Log UI with ability to report an issue
• JKS Convert tool, to create JKS from other keystore types
• Health logger UI
• Memory-stick mode (configuration file stored by binary)
• Ability and warning to copy/overwrite existing config when flipping memory-stick mode
• Various key-bindings and shortcuts (configurable in a later release)
• Import and export configuration
• Proxy configuration, including custom SSL certs and ability to trust all
• Store password in O/S keychain
• Display settings (theme, font, hints)
• Global Kafka settings (timeouts, etc.)
• Cluster overview UI, showing version and enabled features and broker counts, general health, etc.
• Cluster broker UI
• Cluster topic and messages UI
• Advanced messages search, including by offset, dates, partition, and text
• Choice of key/value deserialization
• Decompression support for gzip, snappy, lz4, zstd
• Schema support for JSON, Protobuf, AVRO
• View keys/values as JSON, XML, Hex, or string, raw view
• View headers
• Cluster consumers UI
• Cluster schema registry UI with ability to see old schemas also
• Menu-item to show logs or config folders
• Menu item to open terminal in config folder
• Automatically check for latest version
• Opt-out of latest versions
• Ignore "this" update (until the next one)
• Debug mode
• About UI with version information
• Environment and system properties viewer
• CLI-mode
• Auto-detect running instances (prevent multiple instances running)
• Automatic cluster throttling (prevent too much I/O with brokers)
• Remember size of screen and various horizon/vertical split-pane positions

Changed

• Nothing

Deprecated

• Nothing

Removed

• Nothing

Fixed

• Nothing

Security

• Nothing