• [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 (Thanks @joeirimpan for the PR)
• [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.