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2026-01 (Version 26.01.6, Current)

  • During misconfigured or unreachable connection scenarios, the Kafka Connector Listener now automatically retries connection failures up to six times at progressive intervals (immediately, then at 10s, 30s, 60s, 120s, and 300s) before stopping and requiring a manual restart, while logging a SEVERE-level error and preventing excessive log flooding.

  • The Kafka connector user interface now includes a Kafka Edition selection at the connection level, enabling users to choose the target Kafka platform. The Schema Registry tab has also been updated to Confluent Schema Registry for improved clarity. The PRODUCE action introduces automatic Client ID management for Confluent Kafka to ensure seamless tracking and compatibility.

  • The Kafka connector now supports Avro schemas for dynamic topics using Confluent Schema Registry, enabling efficient, schema-based message production, consumption, and listening. Users can select registered schemas during import to seamlessly work with Avro-encoded message values.

2025-09 (Version 25.09.7)

  • The Kafka connector is updated to support transactional message delivery for the Produce operation. It now also provides support for custom client properties in the Produce, Consume, and Listen actions.

  • Kafka connector updated to support for custom polling properties in the Listen operation.

2025-07 (Version 25.07.4)

  • Updated the label of the new SASL Extensions box on the Connection tab to Add SASL Parameters.

  • The Kafka connector has been enhanced to support the Authorization Code grant type for OAuth 2.0 and OIDC authentication for Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka.

  • The Kafka connector now supports Kafka server version 3.8 and Kafka Client version 3.8.1 with out-of-the-box support for Apache, Confluent, Microsoft Azure Events Hub, and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka.

  • Updated Boominology terminology on the Kafka connector UI, aligning field labels, help text, and tooltips with the latest Boominology naming conventions.

  • Introduced support to override the Consumer Group for the Commit and Commit Offset operations, giving developers greater control over Kafka connector configurations.

2025-03 (Version 25.03.2)

  • Necessary runtime packages are now packaged with the connector.

  • The required container-extended-security.jar file is added to the lib folder, ensuring seamless Kerberos authentication for the Kafka connector.

  • The Kafka connection now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication for Confluent using grant-type Client Credentials.

  • The Kafka connector is enhanced to override the topic name dynamically by using the Dynamic Operation Property in the PRODUCE, CONSUME, and COMMIT OFFSET operations. Topic Name - is no longer available as a Document Property in the Kafka connector.

2024-06 (Version 24.06.1)

  • Messages read or listened from a Kafka topic will now be processed without exceptions when the header value is missing, and the property will be displayed in tracked properties with the header value as a blank string.

2024-01 (Version 24.02.1)

  • The Topic Name can now be imported dynamically across all operations.

  • A tracked property to return the Message Timestamp on Consume and Listen operations.

  • Consumer Group, an optional connection property. When you set a Consumer Group name in the connection, the connector will use that value for running the test connection and importing the operations. The Consumer Group must be defined in either the connection or operation for the Consume, Listen and Commit Offset operations.

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