strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator 0.51.0-rc2

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⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ SECURITY: Strimzi 0.50.1 and 0.51.0 addresses CVE-2026-27133 and CVE-2026-27134. If you use Strimzi 0.47.0 or newer, please read the advisories and if you are affected, please upgrade to 0.50.1 or 0.51.0.

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.51 supports only Kubernetes 1.30 and newer. Kubernetes 1.27, 1.28, and 1.29 are not supported anymore.

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.49 introduced new API version v1 to all Strimzi custom resources.

• Make sure to Upgrade the CRDs) as part of the Strimzi upgrade as well (especially when using Helm).
• The old API versions (v1alpha1, v1beta1, and v1beta2) will continue to be supported until Strimzi 1.0.0 / 0.52.0.
• Before upgrading to Strimzi 0.51.0 from Strimzi 0.48 or older, make sure that you update your KafkaUser resources to use the .spec.authorization.acls[]operations field instead of the deprecated .spec.authorization.acls[]operation.
• For more details about the migration to the v1 API and CRD upgrades, see the documentation.

Main changes since 0.51.0-rc1

• Fix Server Side Apply handling when updating Config Maps with Connector offsets and Rebalance progress
• Documentation improvements

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts that are part of this release, use the 0.51.0-RC2 version in your pom.xml.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.50.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release: