What's new.

### Platform v94.6 **Factor Platform** - First Factor Platform release candidate ### Kpow v94.6 **Kpow** - **Upgrades** - Upgraded to Kafka Clients **4.1.0** and Confluent Libraries **8.0.0**. - Updated Confluent Serdes (including Protobuf) to **v4.31.1** to resolve security vulnerabilities and improve serialization resilience. - **Enhancements** - Data Inspect: Expanded kJQ capabilities with new **`map`** and **`select`** operators. - Improved Schema Registry integration: added additional createdAt metadata (supported in Confluent Schema Registry 8.0.0+ or AWS Glue) - Improved the Amazon MSK connector BOOTSTRAP environment variable matching condition to ensure all applicable connectors are displayed. - **Bug Fixes** - Resolved an issue in LDAP auth for creating OBF-obfuscated values. - Schema: Fixed a bug that resulted an incomplete list of schemas when using Confluent Schema Registry and SCHEMA\_REGISTRY\_OBSERVATION\_VERSION=2. - Schema: Fixed a bug where the schema ID was not updated when selecting different schema versions. - Schema Registry integration: Fixed a bug where the schema version ID stat would not update when switching between revisions - Data Inspect: Fixed a serialization exception when searching by key mode with AVRO keys. - Data Inspect: Fixed incorrect display of large numeric values that exceed the browser's native maximum value. - Data Inspect: Fixed raw formatted results overflowing the results container. - Data Inspect: Fixed ghost data appearing when closing a tab during a streaming search. - Connect: Enhanced summary statistics to display both connector-level and task-level counts separately for Running, Paused, Failed, and Unassigned states. - Topology: Fixed missing edges in exported topology diagrams, improving rendering quality for downloaded images. - Fixed CVE-2025-49794 security vulnerability in libxml2. ### Flex v94.6 **Flex** - **Integrations** - Introduced integration with **Ververica Platform (Community and Enterprise v2)** for native Apache Flink® management and observability within the Factor House ecosystem. - **Bug Fixes** - Flink clusters in the top-level menu and tenant selector now respect [**multi cluster configuration**](https://docs.factorhouse.io/flex/configuration/flink-cluster#multi-cluster) ordering. - Fixed incorrectly labeled sinks in Job's Inspect > Topology diagram. - Increased the timeout when submitting a job, which was incorrectly reporting a failure to start the job.

### Kpow v94.4 - Topic SerDes inference - Fix bug where Auto SerDes failed to infer data when data policies not configured - Include UTF-8 String in inference list (as lowest priority)

### Kpow v94.3 - Add BYO AI models - Topic serdes inference - Add 'Auto' deserializer to data inspect - Add optional infer topic serdes job to populate Kpow's UI with topic serdes information - Data inspect: - Add kJQ AI filter generation - Improve kJQ: chained alternatives, string/array slices, UUID type support - Add new Event log UI element to capture any data inspect anomalies - Report any process assignment exceptions to the frontend (previously only logged on the server) - UI overhaul: new secondary button style for toolbar actions - Add send to kREPL feature - User interface: - Make Dark mode the default theme - Update temporary policies - Support temporary policies of any duration (configurable, default max still 7 days) - Better error messages in the UI - Kafka Provider Integration - Add support for GCP Managed Kafka Schema Registry integration - Error handling: - Improved error logging for scheduled mutations - Improved error messaging for stopped connectors - Code editor: improve keybinding support - Webhooks: add support for Microsoft Teams and generic HTTP - Helm Charts: - Official, signed charts with verified publisher status and values schema validation! - Improve container security: explicitly set **`allowPrivilegeEscalation: false`** and enforce additional hardening through strict **`securityContext`** settings. ### Flex v94.3 - Make Dark mode the default theme - Fix job heat-map tooltip saying "in a minute" - Webhooks: add support for Microsoft Teams and generic HTTP - Helm Charts: - Official, signed charts with verified publisher status and values schema validation! - Improve container security: explicitly set **`allowPrivilegeEscalation: false`** and enforce additional hardening through strict **`securityContext`** settings.

### Kpow v94.2 - Added support for Google Cloud Platform Managed Kafka Service - Fixed snappy compression operation with strict security policies - Fixed consumer offset reset bug - Updated Helm chart link to point to correct repo - Connectors: - Improved error messaging for stopped connectors - Fixed "Copy as JSON" and "Copy as cURL" request structure bug - Fixed link to "POST/connectors" to navigate to the relevant section - Data inspect: - Introduced option to expand/contract large messages - Improved handling of AVRO Date Logical Type - Introduced new display options configuration - Introduced ability to export data in flattened CSV format - User interface: - Migrated to Tailwind 4.0 - Migrated to new HSX and RFX framework libraries - a snappier UI! - Fixed "Description" button placement on topic creation UI - Fixed chart line visibility changes on mouse hover in dark mode - Error handling: - Improved error logging for scheduled mutations - Improved error messaging for stopped connectors - Documentation: - Updated screenshots on both data inspect and data produce pages - Updated docs to reflect changes new data inspect features - Amazon MSK integration added to sidebar navigation in doc tree - Documented correct snappy compression configuration ### Flex v94.2 - Various UI + UX bugfixes - Migrated to Tailwind 4.0 - Migrated to new HSX and RFX framework libraries - a snappier UI!

### Kpow v94.1 - Advance to Apache Kafka Client v3.9.0 libraries - Default to Java17 for releases - Add Kpow Community Helm Charts - Data inspect improvements: - Correct format 'very large' Long values in query results - Add optional 'Window end' to queries - Add advanced data inspect query options: - Add ability to specify isolation level=READ\_COMMITTED for query - Add ability to manually reset sampler before invoking a query - Streams Agent improvements: - Release version 1.0.0 of the [**io.factorhouse/kpow-streams-agent**](https://github.com/factorhouse/kpow-streams-agent) library - Add ability to configure a **`KeyStrategy`** - how data written to internal topic should be keyed - Add ability to configure a **`MetricFilter`** - specify which metrics should be sent to Kpow - Improve performance of streams agent backend processing - Improve streams agent overview page: add details about running agents, number of metrics - Improve streams agent topology metric UIs - Consumer offset management: - Make UX consistent between 'Workflows' UI and Table actions - Add new reset method: reset by raw offset - Improve timestamp UX: show timestamp as local time, UTC and UNIX epoch in UI - Improve reset offset form UX - API improvements: - Add API descriptions to all fields in our OpenAPI 3.0 spec - Add temporary policies to the Admin API endpoints - Topic actions: add 'View schema' action to all topic tables - Accessibility: add decal options to all charts - Re-add 'Data' quick link tab within 'Topics' panel - Add new configuration options for Strict-Transport-Security: **`HTTPS_STS_MAX_AGE`** and **`HTTPS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS`** - Fix measurement unit in disk graphs ### Flex v94.1 - Default to Java17 for releases - Add Flex and Flex Community Helm Charts - Accessibility: add decal options to all charts - Add new configuration options for Strict-Transport-Security: **`HTTPS_STS_MAX_AGE`** and **`HTTPS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS`**

### Kpow v93.4 - Advance to Apache Kafka Client v3.7.0 libraries - Introduce ability to download topology visualisation as an image - Improve light mode - better contrast between elements - Improve protobuf rendering in data inspect (thanks [**@gabistoenescu**](https://github.com/factorhouse/kpow/issues/29)) - Improve Kpow Community setup wizard UX with option to import properties files - Improve validation when importing JSON files into data produce function - Fix create topic partition bug - Fix delete schema version bug - Fix delete connector in MSK bug - Fix partial snapshotting of AWS Glue schema registry bug ### Flex v93.4 - Introduce ability to download topology visualisation as an image - Improve light mode - better contrast between elements

### Kpow v93.3 - Introduce support for schema reference management - Improve performance with removal of producer and transaction observation - Improve visualization of Kafka Streams and consumer group topologies - Improve responsive UI for smaller resolution screens - Improve Kpow Community wizard with templates - Improve 'Create Connector' page with connector icons - Improve connector auto-restart implementation - Improve Kraft broker UI - Improve MSK Managed Connect UI/UX - Improve error messages when message production fails - Improve OpenID Connect role claim ingestion - Improve Kafka configuration observation ### Flex v93.3 - Improve responsive UI for smaller resolution screens - Improve OpenID Connect role claim ingestion - Improve flink topologies vizualisation

### Kpow v93.2 - Introduce connectors auto-restart functionality - Improve ksqlDB UI: import sql files, better error handling and timing metrics - Allow RBAC wildcards at both start and end of resource, such as \*foo\* - Introduce download capabilities in krepl - Preserve the last visited page when navigating between resources - Add keybindings table to data inspect + ksqldb forms - Fix bug starting Kpow with PERSISTENCE\_MODE=audit - Improve mutation notification UX - Fix bug with tenancy resource handling for fine-grained Schema resources ### Flex v93.2 - Allow RBAC wildcards at both start and end of resource, such as \*foo\*

### Kpow v92.4 - Introduce WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, closing 100+ externally audited UI tickets - Introduce feature to manage soft-deleted schemas in Confluent Schema Registry - Introduce feature to support 'STOP' state in Kafka Connect connectors - Introduce configuration to secure Kafka Connect connections with mTLS - Introduce configuration HTTPS\_PROXY for proxied client connections - Improve heatmap contrast colours - Improve mutation error message messaging - Improve ksqlDB config/host misconfiguration logging - Fix Weak SSL/TLS Key Exchange security advisory - Fix Jetty authentication page visibility bug - Fix ksqlDB multi-resource select bug - Fix streams agent sanitise ID issue ### Flex v92.4 - Introduce WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, closing 100+ externally audited UI tickets - Improve heatmap contrast colours - Fix Weak SSL/TLS Key Exchange security advisory - Fix Jetty authentication page visibility bug

### Kpow v93.1 - Introduce secure OpenAPI 3.1 API for Kafka, Connect, and Schema management - Introduce new PRESENTATION\_MODE configuration to control UI visibility - Improve RBAC granularity with new fine-grained permissions - Improve MSK Connect configurability with new authentication methods - Fix Confluent Cloud observation performance bug ### Flex v93.1 - Introduce new PRESENTATION\_MODE configuration to control UI visibility