Past Announcements

Blogs posted by NetApp related to release announcements and security issues/fixes for Instaclustr for Apache Kafka before August 2024 can be accessed from the blog section here or from the list below, while newer ones are published under  Announcements -> Apache Kafka. 

July 2024 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® Introduces Support for Tiered Storage in Public Preview 

June 2024 

• Custom Subject Alternative Names now available on Instaclustr for Apache Kafka 

May 2024 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.6.2 Are Now Generally Available 

March 2024 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® 3.6.1 is Now Available 

August 2023 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.5.1 Are Now Available 

• Security Advisory: CVE-2023-34455 Apache Kafka® 

July 2023 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.4.1 Are Now Available 

May 2023 

• mTLS Client Authentication Is Now Supported by Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® 

April 2023 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Kafka® Connect Support Additional Node Types 

March 2023 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 3.3.1 Are Now Available 

October 2022 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® and Apache Kafka® Connect 2.8.2, 3.0.2, and 3.1.2 are now generally available 

September 2022 

• Security Advisory: CVE-2022-34917 Apache Kafka® 

July 2022 

• Karapace add-ons for Apache Kafka are generally available 

• Support for AWS PrivateLink on Instaclustr for Apache Kafka Is Now Generally Available 

• General Availability of Apache Kafka® and Kafka® Connect 3.1.1 

May 2022 

• Instaclustr for Apache Kafka announces availability of support for AWS PrivateLink in Public Preview 

• Karapace Schema Registry add-on for Apache Kafka is now in public preview 

December 2021 

• Integrated Apache Kafka® Topic and ACL Management via the Instaclustr Provisioning API and Terraform Provider 

November 2021 

• General Availability of Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect 3.0.0 

October 2021 

• Public Preview of Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect 3.0.0 Now Available 

• General Availability of Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect 2.8.1 

September 2021 

• Our Journey to Graviton2 and gp3 Support for Apache Kafka® 

• Updates to Instaclustr Support for Earlier Versions of Apache Kafka® 

• General Availability of Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect 2.7.1 

August 2021 

• Instaclustr Announces the General Availability of Graviton2 for Managed Apache Kafka® 

April 2021 

• Instaclustr Announces Customer-Initiated Resize For Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch™ 

October 2020 

• General Availability of Apache Kafka® and Kafka Connect 2.5.1 

• Dedicated ZooKeeper for Apache Kafka® 

February 2020 

• Instaclustr Announces PCI-DSS Certification 

May 2019 

• Apache Kafka® Schema Registry is now available on the Instaclustr Managed Platform 

• New instance type (i3s) and SSD based storage for Kafka on AWS 

February 2019 

• Instaclustr Announces the Availability of Apache Kafka® REST Proxy on Instaclustr Managed Platform 

November 2018 

• Apache Kafka® 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 – Now Available on Instaclustr Managed Platform 

October 2018 

• Instaclustr releases support for new Google Cloud Platform regions 

June 2018 

• General Availability – Managed Apache Kafka® 

May 2018 

• Apache Kafka Managed Service Now Available with Instaclustr