CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v2.8.1 / 2024-12-18

• [SECURITY] Built with Go 1.23.4 to fix CVE-2024-45337.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add "Try Again" button if debug bundle creation failed.
• [BUFGIX] Properly handle paths that require escaping in environments that use URL rewriting 1526.

v2.8.0 / 2024-12-03

• [FEATURE] Add debug bundle support, enabling Console to now generate cluster wide debug bundles on Redpanda clusters.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add support for CBOR payload deserialization.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Make git max clone depth configurable.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Redpanda Connect in Cloud functionality and usability improvements.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Relax regex restriction to allow greater set of characters for Role names.
• [CHANGE] Ability to upload Redpanda enterprise licenses via Console, as well as loading licenses from a Redpanda cluster.
• [BUFGIX] Fix the grammar in the partition error message
• [BUFGIX] Fix a rendering error if schemaVersion is requested but not supported.
• [BUFGIX] Fix a bug with topic creation under certain scenarios.
• [BUFGIX] Fix topic list sorting to use partition count.
• [SECURITY] Update elliptic package in frontend.

v2.7.2 / 2024-09-06

• [SECURITY] Built with Go 1.23.1 which comes with secure CipherSuites by default.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Minor visual improvements (e.g. padding on the loading spinner in the breadcrumb).
• [BUGFIX] When updating or creating ACLs in some cases the Update/Create button remained disabled due to invalid form validation.
• [BUGFIX] Fix resize loop of the Monacco editor in Safari.
• [BUGFIX] Editing a consumer group by timestamp wasn't possible due to a z-index issue with the datepicker.

v2.7.1 / 2024-08-12

• [IMPROVEMENT] Improve descriptions and columns on Users, ACLs, Roles and Permissions List tab on the security page.
• [BUGFIX] List all ACL and role permissions in user details page. It used to be permissions inherited via roles only.
• [BUGFIX] Selecting a specific deserializer shows a proper error message if it fails.
• [BUGFIX] Fix deserializer for the __consumer_offsets topic.

v2.7.0 / 2024-08-01

• [FEATURE] Add support for managing data transforms in Redpanda.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Reworked message viewer UX to streamline inspecting Kafka records and also fit well for smaller screen sizes.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Improved statistics bar on topics details page.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Better handling for very long resource names such as topic names across all pages.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add support for mapping protobuf types to topic names in a more flexible fashion using regex.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add hint that the message count is just an estimate and not guaranteed to be accurate.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Still render the schema registry pages when Console is running with a schema registry that does not support the /types endpoint.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add support for submodules when using Git as a source for protobuf schemas.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Seperate users and ACLs in the security pages to avoid confusion between users and principals.
• [CHANGE] Remove external news / links from the resources section on the overview page.
• [BUGFIX] Refresh AWS credentials after token expiration when using MSK IAM Auth.
• [BUGFIX] Fix size calculation for log dirs when using shared storages such as S3 / GCS. Applies to topic sizes and broker log dir sizes.
• [BUGFIX] In rare cases decoding Avro records caused a panic. This was fixed by updating the Avro library.
• [BUGFIX] The frontend application used to request a non-existent schema with id: 0 causing an unnecessary backend request.
• [BUGFIX] On the create schema page the Create button was sometimes not disabled even though required field input was not yet provided.
• [BUGFIX] Exponentionally backoff Redpanda adminapi requests if the API is unreachable.
• [BUGFIX] Fix datepicker conversion between UTC and Local times for listing messages and editing group offsets by timestamp.
• [BUGFIX] Schema validation errors were not surfaced in the UI.

v2.6.1 / 2024-07-10

• [SECURITY] update gorilla/schema to address CVE-2024-37298.
• [SECURITY] update grpc to v1.65.0 to avoid OSV:GHSA-XR7Q-JX4M-X55M.
• [SECURITY] new build to address CVE-2024-6387.

v2.6.0 / 2024-05-30

• [FEATURE] Add Redpanda Connect management.

v2.5.2 / 2024-04-30

• [CHANGE] Update dependencies.

v2.5.1 / 2024-04-26

• [SECURITY] Update Go to version 1.22.2.

v2.5.0 / 2024-04-26

• [FEATURE] Add Redpanda Role management.

v2.4.7 / 2024-04-23

• [CHANGE] Update dependencies.
• [BUGFIX] Allow ListMessages and PublishMessage calls in non-Cloud deployments.

v2.4.6 / 2024-04-09

• [SECURITY] Update Go to v1.22.2 to address CVE-2023-45288
• [SECURITY] Authenticated Console users with assigned viewer permissions were able to successfully perform operations that would require admin permissions (e.g. creating ACLs). This does not affect users in Redpanda Cloud.
• [BUGFIX] Fix empty toast feedback when reassigning partitions in the UI.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Surface dynamic broker error messages in the UI if operations such as creating topics failed.

v2.4.5 / 2024-03-06

• [SECURITY] Update Go to v1.22.1 to address multiple CVEs.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Wrap long topic names instead of truncating them in the topics list #1159.

v2.4.4 / 2024-03-04

• [BUGFIX] Fix for glob patterns for adapting the preview in the list messages table #1116.
• [BUGFIX] Show last available page in paginated search results to avoid blank page content #1121.
• [BUGFIX] Send heartbeats in HTTP stream to load messages to avoid idle timeouts from LoadBalancers and reverse proxies #1109.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Better handling for long resource names (e.g. topic names) in the UI #1124.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add option to download messages that are too large to be displayed by default #1129.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add offset.lag.max option to advanced configuration in the MirrorMaker2 connector setup #1131.

v2.4.3 / 2024-02-08

• [BUGFIX] Persist pagination settings in local storage #1095.
• [BUGFIX] Re-add search bar to filter connectors by their name #1094.
• [BUGFIX] Only update the custom offset in the message search if it's a number #1092.
• [BUGFIX] Pushdown filters no longer failed to match when plain strings in key or value were used #1093.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Cache custom offset input in message search #1092.

v2.4.2 / 2024-02-06

• [BUGFIX] Fix pagination issue in frontend.
• [BUGFIX] Fix regex filtering issue in ACL screen in frontend #1080.
• [BUGFIX] Fix inconsistent filtering issue with list messages API when using pushdown filters #1073.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Optimize schema registry protobuf refresh to reduce memory usage #1040.

v2.4.1 / 2024-02-02

• [BUGFIX] Fix bug in schema registry URL paths for subject names that used escaping characters (i.e. %2F)
• [BUGFIX] The pagination component to select different pages always shows up now #1034
• [BUGFIX] When sorting the Kafka topics by size the order was off, the column ordering is fixed now
• [BUGFIX] Using the "copy value" action for a Kafka record no longer includes the payload property multiple times #1054
• [BUGFIX] Selecting the "size" column as the only column to show in the table settings used to throw an exception #1051
• [BUGFIX] Fix decoding for msgpack encoded payloads #1034
• [BUGFIX] Under certain circumstances the download messages button downloaded an empty JSON array instead of the shown records #1031
• [BUGFIX] Searching for topics in the topicslist' quicksearch box using a regex did no longer work #1026
• [IMPROVEMENT] Document new console.maxDeserializationPayloadSize config to control max message size that is still shown in the frontend

v2.3.10 / 2024-01-29

• [BUGFIX] Fix bug in schema registry URL paths.
• [CHANGE] Add better error logging for websocket upgrade.

v2.4.0 / 2024-01-23

• [FEATURE] Specify strategy (e.g. INT8) for decoding messages
• [FEATURE] Show summary of each failed decoding strategy when auto decoding messages fails
• [FEATURE] Full schema management (create, update, delete, compare versions)
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add button to copy password to clipboard after creating a new user
• [IMPROVEMENT] Deprecate Websockets in favour of HTTP streaming for streaming messages
• [IMPROVEMENT] Align UI with Redpanda theme by migrating frontend components from AntD to Redpanda's UI library
• [IMPROVEMENT] Several improvements for existing and new connectors in the Kafka Connect setup wizard

v2.3.9 / 2024-01-15

• [SECURITY] Update update github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 to address CVE-2023-4956.

v2.3.8 / 2023-12-06

• [SECURITY] Update a dependency that may allow to run a DoS attack

v2.3.7 / 2023-11-17

• [SECURITY] Build new Docker image running with the latest openssl/libcrypto3 lib which addresses CVE-2023-5363. The previous v2.3.6 did in fact not fix this CVE.

v2.3.6 / 2023-11-16

• [SECURITY] Build new Docker image running with the latest openssl/libcrypto3 lib which addresses CVE-2023-5363

v2.3.5 / 2023-10-16

• [BUGFIX] Add commonly pre-registered protobuf types to support automatic deserialization.

v2.3.4 / 2023-10-10

• [BUGFIX] Build with latest Alpine image to address CVE-2023-38039.

v2.3.3 / 2023-09-14

• [BUGFIX] Get all schemas for protobuf compilation in order to support records of multiple versions of same schema.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add numeric values to the deserializer. Console will attempt to deserialize payloads as big endian uints.

v2.3.2 / 2023-09-05

• [BUGFIX] Fix base64 decoding of 'utf8WithControlChars' in frontend
• [ENHANCEMENT] Update Avro dependency

v2.3.1 / 2023-08-01

• [BUGFIX] Fix regression with Avro deserialization

v2.3.0 / 2023-07-21

• [FEATURE] New Kafka connect setup & edit experience
• [ENHANCEMENT] Support for serving Console on HTTPS / TLS Termination
• [ENHANCEMENT] Support deserializing Avro payloads with schema references (by @igormq)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Configurable Kafka connection retry parameters (new config block: kafka.startup)
• [BUGFIX] Show correct controllerId on the overview page
• [CHANGE] Run docker container as non-root user
• [CHANGE] Don't log expected error messages for context cancellation on message search

Enterprise changelog

• [FEATURE] Support Keycloak as identity provider
• [FEATURE] Support AzureAD as identity provider
• [BUGFIX] Report license expiry time correctly

v2.2.5 / 2023-07-11

• [SECURITY] Build new Docker image running on latest 3.17 Alpine which addresses CVE-2023-28531

v2.2.4 / 2023-05-03

• [ENHANCEMENT] Set USER instruction to redpandaconsole in Dockerfile.

v2.2.3 / 2023-03-22

• [ENHANCEMENT] Build with CGO disabled.
• [ENHANCEMENT] Various improvements to authorization.

v2.2.2 / 2023-03-03

• [ENHANCEMENT] Report license expiry time.

v2.2.1 / 2023-03-03

• [ENHANCEMENT] Build with Go v1.20
• [BUGFIX] Show guessed Kafka version on new overview page
• [BUGFIX] Reduce number of properties shown in stats bar topics & consumer groups page to minimize required browser width
• [BUGFIX] Escape all URL & query parameters. Consumer groups or Kafka connectors with special characters will no longer fail in Console

v2.2.0 / 2023-02-17

• [FEATURE] Editing topic configurations
• [FEATURE] Rework brokers page into a new overview page
• [ENHANCEMENT] Visual update towards a new Redpanda UI theme
• [CHANGE] We removed the support for using encrypted PEM certificates as specified in RFC 1423 because it's insecure by design and should not be used by anyone
• [BUGFIX] Enforce CORS-checks on websocket connection. Defaults to a same-site policy. Allowed origins are configurable via server.allowedOrigins
• [BUGFIX] Emit Protobuf default values when viewing the JSON-rendered records in the message viewer
• [BUGFIX] The server.basePath option to host Console under a different sub-path was malfunctioning and has been fixed
• [BUGFIX] The schema registry and redpanda admin api client were not using the system's cert pool by default, this has been changed

Enterprise changelog

• [FEATURE] We added a new login provider (plain) for username-password authentication
• [BUGFIX] Fix issues with generic OIDC provider when using self-signed or mutual TLS certificates

v2.1.1 / 2022-12-01

• [ENHANCEMENT] Auto refresh capability in the frontend (via #536 by @victorgawk)
• [BUGFIX] Some Avro serialized messages failed to deserialize. We replaced LinkedIn's go-avro library with hamba/avro which supports more types

Enterprise changelog:

• [ENHANCEMENT] Add possibility to chunk session cookie into multiple cookies in order to store more data inside of Cookies. Must be enabled via login.useCookieChunking
• [BUGFIX] Only refresh session tokens if they are actually about to expire

2.1.0 / 2022-11-15

• [FEATURE] ACL management (create/update/delete ACLs)
• [FEATURE] User management (create/update/delete SASL SCRAM & Redpanda users)
• [FEATURE] Add checkbox to show/hide internal Kafka topics
• [ENHANCEMENT] Improve Kafka connect dialog for MM2 connectors
• [ENHANCEMENT] Show all byte sizes in IEC units such as KiB, MiB etc. (binary prefix)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Split all Kafka connect options in Basic & Advanced properties
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add anonymous usage stats (you can opt out by setting analytics.enabled to false)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Use separate Kafka API (DeleteGroups) to delete consumer groups rather than deleting all its group offsets
• [BUGFIX] Remove default blanklines from editor when producing Kafka records

Enterprise changelog:

• [FEATURE] Add support for hot-reloading RBAC role bindings
• [ENHANCEMENT] Support for self-signed TLS certificates when connecting to an OIDC endpoint
• [ENHANCEMENT] Print decoded OIDC token claims if the claim key could not be found for an authenticated user

2.0.0 / 2022-08-10

• [CHANGE] We provide a single build for Redpanda Console & Redpanda Console Enterprise, so that you can upgrade versions by just setting a license key.
• [FEATURE] Rebrand Kowl to Redpanda Console
• [FEATURE] Create Topics
• [FEATURE] Publish Kafka records (JSON, Text & Hex/Binary as of today, no schema registry support yet)
• [FEATURE] Add Quotas pages that lists all kinds of configured Kafka Quotas (requires Kafka v2.6+)
• [FEATURE] Add single-binary build, linux packages, ARM-builds for Docker images
• [ENHANCEMENT] Retry connecting if initial bootstrap connection fails with a backoff timer
• [CHANGE] Rename owl config property to console (breaking change)
• [BUGFIX] Configurations with camel cased YAML properties can now be specified via environment variables as well

Enterprise changelog:

• [CHANGE] Breaking changes on the configuration (see documentation for new config structure around RBAC & Login)
• [FEATURE] Introduce support for a generic OpenID Connect provider interface

Note: The documentation for Redpanda Console has been moved to Redpanda. You can find the docs here:

• Installation: https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/platform/quickstart/console-installation/
• Configuration: https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/platform/console/

1.5.0 / 2021-11-10

• [FEATURE] Add support for deleting topics
• [FEATURE] Add support for deleting records within topics (only possible on topics with cleanup.policy=delete due to limitations in Kafka)
• [FEATURE] Add support for managing multiple Kafka connect clusters via Kowl
• [FEATURE] Create new Kafka connectors via a setup wizard
• [ENHANCEMENT] Highlight leader broker for each partition in the topic's partition table
• [ENHANCEMENT] Embed quicksearch on topic list into table headers (experimental)
• [ENHANCEMENT] List respective ACLs on topic & consumer group detail page
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add Kafka 3.0 support
• [ENHANCEMENT] Broker lists (for example in a topic's 'Partitions' tab) now show which broker is leading the partition
• [ENHANCEMENT] You can now configure the baseDirectory for all Git file providers (e.g. topic docs or protobuf source)
• [BUGFIX] Broker page does no longer show an error if a broker failed to respond to a DescribeConfigs request

1.4.0 / 2021-05-27

• [FEATURE] Proto files can now be provided via the local file system as well
• [FEATURE] Schema registry support for Protobuf (including auto deserialization)
• [FEATURE] Consumer group offsets can now be edited (copy offsets from other group, set to start/end/timestamp) or deleted
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add two new Kafka SASL Mechanisms: OAuthBearer and AWS MSK IAM
• [ENHANCEMENT] Preview tags in the message viewer can now be named
• [ENHANCEMENT] Maximum string length in JSON viewer has been increased from 40 to 200 characters
• [ENHANCEMENT] CTRL + Click on values in JSON viewer will copy the value into the clipboard
• [ENHANCEMENT] Menu redesigned (profile info for Kowl Business moved to menu bar)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Rework broker & topic config pages; Shows config sources and all inherited config settings with their value
• [ENHANCEMENT] Custom TLS config for schema registry
• [ENHANCEMENT] Estimate topic log dir size if partition replicas are down (if size is estimated a warning is shown in the frontend)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Messages can now be expanded/collapsed by double-clicking a row
• [ENHANCEMENT] Group details page: 'Topics' view now has a 'View Topic' button, and the topic names in the 'Members' view are now clickable (both navigate to the topic details page)
• [BUGFIX] Topicname is now selectable in consumer group details page
• [BUGFIX] Relative timestamp now updates live in message table

1.3.0 / 2021-04-13

• [CHANGE] We removed the Kafka library and replaced it with franz-go. This allows us to add a lot more features in the future.
• [CHANGE] Configuration for the topic documentation feature has changed
• [CHANGE] When the root "value" of a message has 0 bytes, it is now correctly deserialized to nil instead of "". If you use filters in the frontend to filter tombstones you probably used value != "" before, but with this change you'll have to use value != null.
• [FEATURE] Support setting the listen adress of the webserver (config entry: server.http.listen-address, or flag: listenAddress). #150
• [FEATURE] Add Protobuf support
• [FEATURE] Preview Tags has been reworked. Now supports nested tags and autocomplete. Tags can be editted and reordered.
• [FEATURE] You can now save messages by clicking the 'Save Messages' button below the message list, or save a single message from its context menu (right-most column of a message row, visible on hover)
• [FEATURE] Reassign partitions via setup wizard. Use it to balance partition count, disk usage, move replicas to new brokers or decomission brokers
• [FEATURE] Add rackId config option to consume from brokers that reside in the same rack if possible (rack aware consuming)
• [FEATURE] Add MessagePack support in deserializer
• [FEATURE] You can now select a date/time as the "start offset" when searching for messages.
• [ENHANCEMENT] Show rebalance protocol and coordinator id in consumer group pages
• [ENHANCEMENT] Kowl can now be configured using environment variables as well
• [ENHANCEMENT] Show Kafka version in Brokers page
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add support for decoding messages in the __consumer_offsets topic
• [ENHANCEMENT] Support schema registry with thousands of subjects by reducing the number of information in the schema registry overview page
• [BUGFIX] Deserialize messages with Avro with a higher priority than UTF-8 messages, so that Avro serialized messages will always be recognized correctly
• [BUGFIX] Fix deadlock where schema registry requests against older Schema Registries would time out due to the missing /mode endpoint.
• [BUGFIX] ResourcePatternType is now correctly shown in the ACLs list.

1.2.2 / 2020-11-23

• [ENHANCEMENT] Schema registry page has been slightly redesigned so that very complex schemas are more comfortable to inspect
• [BUGFIX] Fixed rendering errors in schema registry page

1.2.1 / 2020-11-16

• [ENHANCEMENT] Message headers can be expanded/collapsed now
• [BUGFIX] Kowl now handles message headers containing structured data (JSON) correctly

1.2.0 / 2020-11-14

• [FEATURE] Embed topic documentation using Markdown files from Git repositories (/docs/features/topic-documentation.md)
• [FEATURE] Support for message headers
• [FEATURE] UI for schema registry (list all registered schemas including schema history)
• [FEATURE] Avro support for deserializing messages
• [FEATURE] List all Kafka ACLs
• [FEATURE] Business: Support for Okta as an identity provider
• [FEATURE] Support for hosting Kowl under a sub-path (#107 and #117)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Possibility to hide the statistics bar
• [ENHANCEMENT] Support custom certificates for schema registry client
• [ENHANCEMENT] Show elapsed time and consumed bytes after filtered message consumption is done
• [BUGFIX] Kowl now shows the error reported by a login provider (should the login fail)
• [BUGFIX] Better handling for broker restarts on consumer groups and topics page
• [BUGFIX] Allow all UTF-8 characters in JavaScript filter code
• [BUGFIX] Inform user about missing clipboard access instead of silent fails on message copy

1.1.0 / 2020-08-06

• [CHANGE] Business: Reworked groups syncing (Google + GitHub)
• [CHANGE] Business: GitHub team sync uses uses personal access tokens instead of GitHub apps (better support for multi organization environments)
• [CHANGE] Business: Groups/Teams sync config has changed, see https://github.com/cloudhut/kowl/commit/0f22cd7b18268ecb3be88fe2bc3de8ac9e8febed
• [FEATURE] Search messages with an arbitrary JavaScript filter (#48)
• [FEATURE] Get Kafka messages as they arrive (live tail)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Message table: You can now select the visible columns and their order (#52)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Message table: The desired timestamp format can be configured (Only date, only time, unix timestamp, relative) (#52)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Message table: The no key icon now shows a tooltip to explain the icon's meaning (#52)
• [ENHANCEMENT] Add endpoint for startup probes (#101)
• [BUGFIX] After clicking the refresh button it didn't always change the state to "Refreshing" (#75)

1.0.0 / 2020-06-24

• [CHANGE] Tabs in a topic detail view have been reordered, and the messages tab is now selected by default
• [CHANGE] Deselecting the input field in the "Preview Settings" dialog (or closing the dialog) will be considered as a confirmation now (instead of cancelling the tag that is being added)
• [FEATURE] Additional filter options (case sensitivity and multi results) for field previews
• [ENHANCEMENT] In the message table, long keys will now be truncated (>45 chars). Click on a key to show a dialog containing the full key
• [ENHANCEMENT] Statistics elements will now reduce their size on smaller screens
• [ENHANCEMENT] If you are missing some permissions for a topic (for example: can't view config, or can't view messages), there's now an icon that will be shown for that topic in the topic list. Hovering over it will show the permission details.
• [ENHANCEMENT] The 'state' (icon + text) of a consumer-groups now also has a popover that - when hovering over the state - shows a table listing all possible states along with some descriptions.
• [ENHANCEMENT] Topic statistics won't show retention.bytes/retention.ms for compact topics
• [BUGFIX] Fixed issues with page sizes and column sorting in tables
• [BUGFIX] Fixed the calculation of replicated and total partitions
• [BUGFIX] Preview Tags: properties shown are now in the correct casing (as they are defined in the object)

1.0.0-beta1 / 2020-05-24

This is the initial release which comes with all the currently known features.