Confluent

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Supported Gateway Topologies
hybrid db-less traditional
Supported Konnect Deployments
hybrid cloud-gateways serverless
Compatible Protocols
grpc grpcs http https
Minimum Version
Kong Gateway - 3.8
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3.13.0.0

Release date 2025/12/18

Feature

  • added new config option ssl_verify to support verifying server certificates. Added support for the tls_certificate_verify global option. When this option is enabled, the plugin’s ssl_verify setting cannot be disabled.

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where forward_body dropped request bodies larger than Nginx’s default buffer size (16 KB). It now reads up to 1 MB and returns an error if the body can’t be fully read.

3.12.0.0

Release date 2025/10/01

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where the plugin did not use conf.cluster_name.

3.11.0.0

Release date 2025/07/03

Feature

  • Added support for sending messages with dynamic keys to determine partitions.

3.10.0.0

Release date 2025/03/27

Feature

  • Added support for message manipulation with the new configuration field message_by_lua_functions.

  • Added support for sending messages to multiple topics with topics_query_arg, and enabled topic allowlisting with allowed_topics.

3.8.0.0

Release date 2024/09/11

Feature

  • Added the confluent plugin which allows to interface with Confluent.

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