Protobuf, Light Mode, and Community

This minor version release from Factor House:

• Improves protobuf rendering
• Sharpens light-mode
• Simplifies community edition setup
• Resolves a number of small bugs, and,
• Bumps Kafka client dependencies to v3.7.0.

Advance Apache Kafka Clients to 3.7.0

Client reports have lead us to observe unusual consumer behaviour in limited cases when using Kpow's data inspect feature.

We believe there may be some hard to reproduce bugs in the underlying fetch mechanism of the Kafka consumer within the standard Java libraries.

This area of code is currently being refactored within the Apache Kafka project and there are bug tickets that imply bugs are being squashed in due course.

We observed consumer issues being resolved in a client installation of Kpow as the Kafka version bumped above 3.6.2. We will keep an eye this area for the time being and produce a more meaningful blog post with details at some point in the future.

Improve Protobuf rendering

Data inspect now shows default properties for Protobuf messages for both AWS Glue and Confluent Schema Registry.

In below screenshot occupied has a value of false which is the default value for a boolean.

It is now displayed in the results also it can be used in the kJQ filter.

Read more details in the original issue here

Improve light mode

We have improved the light mode in Flex and Kpow, elements have more contrast and visible borders.

This is an area of continuous improvement for us as we take accessibility very seriously. If you want to see further improvements in this space then please give us feedback

Import properties files in Kpow Community Setup wizard

Users can now import .properties file in Kpow Community Setup wizard to set the connection details for Apache Kafka by clicking on Import properties file button.