Kafka Log

Release date 2026/04/07

Feature

• The options security.ssl_verify which control SSL certificate verification for Kafka endpoints, are now enabled by default.

Release date 2026/04/08

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where cached producers could cause memory leaks.

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.

Release date 2026/04/15

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where cached producers could cause memory leaks.

Release date 2026/02/26

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where certificates could not be loaded from non-default workspaces.

Release date 2025/07/03

Feature

• Added support for Kafka 4.0. kafka-upstream: Added support for Kafka 4.0.

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

• Added support for Schema Registry integration with Confluent Schema Registry for AVRO and JSON schemas.

Release date 2026/04/09

Feature

• Added support for Kafka 4.0 to fix the Confluent deprecation.

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where certificates could not be loaded from non-default workspaces.

Release date 2024/12/12

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where the plugin cannot function correctly when it is configured in a non-default workspace with certificate_id.

• Reduced noisy logs from kafka-log and counters.

Release date 2023/08/09

Feature

• The Kafka Log plugin now supports the custom_fields_by_lua configuration for dynamic modification of log fields using Lua code.

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where the plugin could lose connection to a broker when the broker leadership changed.

Release date 2022/12/06

Feature

• WebSocket service/route support was added for logging plugins: kafka-log