v1.3.0

v1.3.0

Release date: 2025-12-28

Highlights

• Fixed advertised broker metadata and added external access e2e coverage (#29).
• Improved Kafka client compatibility (including Java producer) with expanded e2e tests (#28).
• Streamlined Kafka CLI setup by skipping kind image load.

Known limitations

• TLS/SASL authentication is planned for v1.5+ (see roadmap).
• No Kafka transactions, KRaft APIs, or embedded stream processing.

Security fixes

• No known runtime vulnerabilities were fixed in this release.

What's Changed

• Fix advertised broker metadata and external access e2e by @novatechflow in #30
• Fix/java producer compat by @novatechflow in #31
• chore: prep v1.3.0 release by @novatechflow in #33

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0

v1.2.0

v1.2.0

Release date: 2025-12-24

Merry Christmas to everyone 🎄

Highlights

• Multi-region S3 support with AWS CRR integration and consumer reads.
• MCP service added with supporting documentation and test coverage.
• Helm chart/docs refresh and controller-runtime bump to v0.22.4.

Known limitations

• TLS/SASL authentication is planned for v1.5+ (see roadmap).
• No Kafka transactions, KRaft APIs, or embedded stream processing.

Security fixes

• No known runtime vulnerabilities were fixed in this release.

What's Changed

• docs: align release planning by @novatechflow in #19
• docs: update badges by @novatechflow in #20
• ops: update helm and docs by @novatechflow in #22
• chore(deps): bump sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime from 0.18.0 to 0.22.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #21
• Add multi-region support in S3 mit AWS CRR und consumer reads by @kamir in #23
• Add MCP service, docs, and tests by @novatechflow in #24
• Testing env regression by @novatechflow in #25
• chore: prep v1.2.0 release by @novatechflow in #26

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #21
• @kamir made their first contribution in #23

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

v1.1.0

v1.1.0

Release date: 2025-12-21

Highlights

• CodeQL fixes for broker logging and safer env parsing.
• Dependency refresh and upstream controller-runtime (no fork).
• Added fuzzing, security, and release-process documentation for best practices.

Known limitations

• TLS/SASL authentication is planned for a future release.
• No Kafka transactions, KRaft APIs, or embedded stream processing.

Security fixes

• No known runtime vulnerabilities were fixed in this release.

What's Changed

• security: address code scanning alerts by @novatechflow in #17
• docs: add v1.1.0 release notes by @novatechflow in #18

New Contributors

• @novatechflow made their first contribution in #17

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

v1.0.0

Kafscale v1.0.0

This is the first stable release of Kafscale, a Kafka‑protocol compatible streaming platform with stateless brokers, S3‑backed durability, and etcd‑backed metadata/offsets. v1.0.0 focuses on core broker compatibility, operational tooling, and observability.

Highlights

• Expanded ops/admin API surface (groups, configs, cleanup, CreatePartitions, DeleteGroups)
• New and improved Prometheus metrics + Grafana dashboard templates
• Added security posture documentation and roadmap alignment
• Strengthened test coverage, including new e2e durability tests and race/vet checks in CI

What’s Included

• Kafka protocol support for produce/fetch, consumer groups, metadata, and admin ops
• Operator‑based Kubernetes deployment flow
• Expanded documentation set (ops, security, architecture, protocol matrix)

Known Limitations

• No TLS/SASL yet (planned for next version)
• No Kafka transactions or KRaft APIs
• No embedded stream processing

v0.9.0-dev.2

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-dev.1...v0.9.0-dev.2