This new version comes with new features for smart filtering, live message tailing, and handling functionality of topics.

New Features

• Smart filters
• Live message tailing
• Ability to clone topic functionality
• Ability to recreate topic functionality
• Support of local environments without internet access

Based on community feedback, the KSQL functionality has been overhauled. A lot of refactoring happened, now all the query types should work just fine.

Enhancements

Kafka Connect — Added basic authentication support
Zookeeper — Dropped Zookeeper support as it's no longer required by Kafka itself
Schema registry — Added a view for comparing schema versions
LDAP — Admin authentication and search filters implemented
Schema registry — Search and pagination implemented
Consumers — Sorting and pagination implemented
Topics — Sorting by size implemented

Bug fixes

From a QA perspective, in this release we prioritized fixing bugs related to topics and messages, including: pagination fixes; message viewing, and duplication.

UI/UX improvements

The “restart failed tasks” button for connectors has been split into three different ones: "restart connector", "restart failed tasks", and "restart all tasks".

Issues closed: https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui/milestone/5?closed=1
Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Thanks to everyone who contributed in any way. We greatly appreciate that ❤️

Contributors

@5hin0bi, @Anifahb, @Corlobin, @Dekshut, @Haarolean, @Hurenka, @IndeedSi, @Matan-Tzuberi, @Mgrdich, @Motherships, @NelyDavtyan, @ValentinPrischepa, @Zorii4, @abelgibayev, @agolosen, @aizerin, @azatsafin, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @gaddam1987, @germanosin, @iliax, @jdechicchis, @jonasgeiregat, @keeperUA, @lazzy-panda, @lucasprograms, @mchoukairprov, @omh1280, @piermotte, @rAzizbekyan, @sasunprov, @simonyandev, @workshur and @yvaeltercero