Changelog

We update Conduktor pretty often, and we are fully transparent.
We keep track of every changes right here... from the very start. Happy scrolling!
Jul 26, 2020

Conduktor 2.4.2

  • Detect consumer groups subscribing to several topics using the default “range” strategy, warn the user of possible unbalanced situations
  • In the producer, it’s now possible to send Avro specific types from a simple JSON representation (bytes as base64, decimal logicalType as number or string, etc.). We’re covering the cases in our documentation.
  • Improve support of old ksql versions
  • Support ksqlDB 0.10 and drop previous versions support for queries
Jul 9, 2020

Conduktor 2.4.1

  • Add a clear button on search fields
  • Backup the existing Conduktor’s configuration in case of IO errors
  • Avoid displaying an error when the security graph can’t be rendered
  • Display Avro bytes without logical types as base64 instead of gibberish
  • When consuming data, save the jq projection into the CSV export, instead of the full value
Jun 27, 2020

Conduktor 2.4.0

  • Add Kafka Connect authentication using a token and improve its configuration screen layout
  • Prevent displaying a blank area in the consumed record details when it’s not the expected json-ish format
  • In the topic details, display how many subjects fits the TopicRecordNameStrategy if used
  • Improve format detection when consuming an Avro topic to auto-select Avro (Schema Registry)
  • It’s now possible to change the compatibility of multiple subjects at once
  • Fix weird columns resizing that can happen for topics and schema registry views
  • Avoid displaying an error when Conduktor starts and the Schema Registry is configured but not up
Jun 25, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.7

  • Improve Topics table layout
  • We also added a Json Path filtering for keys and values, easier to filter nested data
  • We now support a Regex filter in our consumer. Note that it can impact performance.
  • Make the Reset source offsets connector wizard working with large offsets topics
  • Display topics marked for deletion if Zookeeper integration is enabled
  • Bump dependencies
Jun 21, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.6

  • Improve Kafka Connect connectors list loading time when we have many
  • Minor UI improvements
  • New wizard to reset the source offsets of a connector
  • It’s now possible to open multiple consumed record dialogs (detached mode), useful to compare records
  • In the upgrade dialog, display the last 10th changelogs (instead of only 5) when the version is really old
Jun 18, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.5

  • Improve how we display the JSON-ish view for logicalTypes not part of unions
  • Handle older KSQL versions when checking for healthiness
  • Add new Avro deserializers to work with custom subjects or schemas. It’s also possible to provide a custom schema to deserialize the data and bypass the Schema Registry.
  • Cleanup and improve Consumer layout to prepare for more options
  • Fix buggy columns resizing that can happen when refreshing topics view
Jun 14, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.4

  • Add JMX username/password authentication
  • Display the reason why Conduktor fallback to free mode (no seats available, too many activations…)
  • For topics, it’s now possible to add a custom column to compare their configuration all at once (retention, segments, intervals etc.)
  • Strongly suggest the user to upgrade Conduktor when he has an old version
Jun 13, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.3

  • Sign Windows installer 🔐
Jun 12, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.2

  • When rolling restarting a cluster with Conduktor, handle start/stop commands errors gracefully
  • Fix some cases where the topic/partitions last writes metrics failed repeatedly
  • Ensure that critical Conduktor’s Kafka properties take precedence over the cluster configuration additional properties
  • Fix the sorting of the Consumer “lag” column in the details and improve columns layout
Jun 11, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.1

  • Add basic authentication for Jolokia metrics endpoints and make it Aiven compatible
  • Handle special characters with ksqlDB resources
  • Fix error occurring when creating a topic with Smart Groups enabled
  • ACLs: be more clear when the pattern type is prefixed
Jun 8, 2020

Conduktor 2.3.0

  • Add ksqlDB initial integration within Conduktor
Jun 4, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.6

  • Refresh the user info when Conduktor starts to avoid logout/login cycles
  • In topic details, show the overall count of records ever sent, and relayout a bit the info displayed
  • Avoid displaying negative lag in Topics details when we’re still fetching offsets
  • Handle more gracefully/transparently authorization errors when the user doesn’t have access to the consumer groups
  • Reduce GPU usage when consuming data
May 29, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.5

  • Avoid displaying negative lag value for Consumer Groups when we couldn’t fetch all necessary infos
  • In the Cluster Configuration, allow Zookeeper urls containing a chroot path
  • Add a note when removing topics that it’s not always immediate
  • Fix an error occurring when the brokers version can’t be determined
  • Fix possible inconsistency issues when deleting Schema Registry subjects
May 25, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.4

  • Fix an issue where producing data was not done with the latest schema version after a Schema update
  • Fix an issue occurring with Smart Groups when there is no value to display for a group
  • Fix an error occurring when updating a subject without schemas
  • It’s now possible to remove a particular version of a Schema Registry Subject (unsafe!)
May 22, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.3

  • Improve the heuristics detecting topic last writes to reduce the strain on the cluster
  • It’s now possible to quickly switch to another cluster without going back to the welcome screen
  • Improve Enterprise floating licenses token refresh
May 20, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.2

  • Fix an error occuring with Aiven’s Schema Registry (Karapace)
  • Fix Consumer time shift with the different “from” based on time
  • Display the ACLs in a graph to see relations holistically
  • Show the local cluster onboarding button only when the user is logged in
May 14, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.1

  • Producing records based on an Avro root union schema now works
  • Partially fix an error occurring on the Producer when switching templates / partitions. A larger revamp is in progress.
  • Improve Schema Registry data layout
  • In the topic details, we now link to its Schema Registry subject(s) if defined
  • Like with Topics, we can now flag Consumer Groups as favorite to easily find them
  • We now detect cluster versions up to 2.5.x
May 13, 2020

Conduktor 2.2.0

  • When contacting our support due to an error, we now expect our dear user to explain the context
  • Fix an issue where a change of the Consumer “start from” datetime picker was not taken into account
  • Refresh the Schema Registry subjects list when we create a new one
  • Bump dependencies: performances and stability improvements
  • It’s now possible to update the schema of an existing Subject from its detailed view
  • Strengthen the Schema Registry Global Compatibility change message, to ensure the user knows what’s going to happen
  • Fix an issue where the consumed topic was still not the right one after changing it in the dropdown
May 7, 2020

Conduktor 2.1.5

  • Improve Proxy dialog layout
  • It’s now possible to create a producer template from a consumed record
  • More serializers have been added on the producer side
May 6, 2020

Conduktor 2.1.4

  • It’s now possible to navigate back and forth through screens
  • Always display all infos in topic details (no matter the hidden columns on the main list)
  • It’s now possible to hide Replication Factor and Partition Count columns for topics
May 5, 2020

Conduktor 2.1.3

  • Improve certificates import strategy into Conduktor’s own truststore
  • Retry fetching new topic after its creation. Kafka sometimes takes its time.
  • Fix edge case with Smart Groups and non-named groups
  • Improve the wording of the Upgrade messages
  • Fix a Consumer Group issue occurring when committed offsets are missing
May 3, 2020

Conduktor 2.1.2

  • Add trusted certificate import within Conduktor, to avoid keytool manipulations
  • Add a link to the documentation when an error occurs
May 1, 2020

Conduktor 2.1.1

  • Fix parsing of recursive Avro schemas
  • Add Kafka Streams settings to configure the topology viewer and the refresh interval
  • Fix Kafka Streams metrics sometimes not updated with the latest state
  • Always log the Kafka connection errors even if we handle them gracefully
  • Fix a too short timeout causing connectivity issues with “slow” clusters
  • Clarify the usage of SSH in Conduktor. It is not for SSH tunneling but direct connection (for now)
  • Prevent Kafka Streams columns to resize oddly when resizing the window
  • Improve metrics error handling (Jolokia, JMX)
Apr 30, 2020

Conduktor 2.1.0

  • Fix an issue where the Kafka logs file was not generated on Linux
  • Update our documentation url to https://docs.conduktor.io/
  • Improve error message when connection to Kafka fails
  • Add Smart Groups feature for topics and schema registry. It’s now possible to cleanup long names visually and create dynamic columns based on parts of the names.
Apr 28, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.21

  • It’s now possible to download consumed binary data into file
  • Make it clearer the read-only mode is enabled or not
  • Make it clear the “bytes” deserializer exposes base64
  • Handle listener names in bootstrap servers connection strings
  • Improve Avro default value formatting
  • Fix realtime updates when partitions are missing their leader
  • Handle Enterprise monthly seats subscriptions
Apr 23, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.20

  • Fix a UI issue that may cause issues under Linux
  • Fix an issue occurring when Zookeeper watching jobs are cancelled
  • Add more details about the error in the error dialog and improve the contact to our support
Apr 21, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.19

  • Add links to our documentation in the Cluster Configuration screen, in case of troubles.
  • Fix a case where the Kafka connectivity Test button did not display the error if there was
  • Expose the logs within the Configuration dialog to understand Kafka connections errors
  • Output Kafka errors in a dedicated logfile to investigate more easily
Apr 20, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.18

  • Rework the topic and partitions last writes to be reactive and to expose trusty values
Apr 13, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.17

  • Use the JSON viewer when exporting a Kafka Connect connector configuration
  • Remove dependencies to lighten the installer
  • Sign macOS installer 🔐
Apr 12, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.16

  • Reduce memory footprint when consuming data
  • New option when consuming topic(s): we can keep only the latest (by time) occurrence of the keyed records we are consuming.
  • Fix Kafka Streams state store column links. Now pointing to their proper changelog topic.
  • Make the Avro compatibility tester available on Subject. This helps testing transitive compatibility.
  • Fix an opacity issue with the tooltips on the Overview screen
  • Add changelog link to website in the Upgrade dialog to see all versions
  • Add an Avro check compatibility tool to compare two schemas. The next step will use existing Subjects as baseline.
  • Fix the false assumption that the topic of a subject using RecordNameStrategy does not exist
Apr 10, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.15

  • Display the Schema Registry Subjects without their related topic (probably deleted since)
  • Stop the check background job when we close a running Kafka Streams reset dialog
  • Add multi-selection on Schema Registry. It’s now possible to mass-delete them (!).
  • Fix the error occuring when a user creates a Topic but doesn’t have access to the brokers config
  • Reduce installer size
Apr 9, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.14

  • It’s now possible to export Partitions per broker metadata into JSON or CSV
  • Fix “Type” column size in Subject details which was too narrow
  • It’s now possible to export Topics and Consumers metadata into JSON or CSV
  • Fix an issue with Support for users logged in with Twitter
  • Conduktor now offers a free trial with all the features available
  • Connect Conduktor support to our support system for a better and faster service
  • Display JVM arguments in Settings dialog
Apr 7, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.13

  • Reduce the installer size by removing some dependencies
  • Tune how we start Conduktor (like JVM Max Heap which is now fixed at 2G)
  • Add details about the running JVM, heap sizes etc. in the Settings dialog
  • Add Restart all Tasks (not the connector itself) in Kafka Connect
  • Add nonProxyHosts property for proxies and initialize it on startup if needed
Apr 6, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.12

  • Add HTTP Proxy configuration within Conduktor to avoid setting up the JVMOptions manually
  • Wrap long messages in the error dialog
Apr 6, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.11

  • Use a new error dialog to avoid Linux issues (tiny, not resizable) and to add features (“send to support”)
  • Fix unnecessary double-click on all Ask Us Anything buttons
  • We can export Kafka Connect connector properties as JSON from its “Configuration” pane
  • Add a JSON to Avro Schema tool in the Schema Registry screen
Apr 5, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.10

  • When consuming in tabular view, explode headers as distinct columns
  • In the consume dialog, add the ability to show/hide columns in tabular mode
  • In the consume dialog, add “yesterday” as consume from start date. It’s a common use-case.
  • Remove intermediate topics metric in Kafka Streams. It’s not that useful.
  • On Windows, copy the old configuration file of Conduktor to the new place; to avoid starting from scratch.
Apr 4, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.9

  • There is now a complete wizard to help resetting Kafka Streams applications.
  • Improve error management when we fail connecting to clusters
Apr 2, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.8

  • It’s now possible to consume multiple topics at the same time in the same Consumer dialog
Apr 1, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.7

  • Rename “desktop” to “conduktor” in .zip distribution to be clearer
  • Make Conduktor compatible for Java 11 minimum
Mar 29, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.6

  • When upgrading Conduktor, download the package for macOS (pkg) & Windows (msi) instead of just opening the Download page.
  • Display new menu: Kafka Streams
  • Add refresh button after verifying email to avoid logout/login again.
  • Auto-focus to Conduktor after login/logout
  • Add terms agreement button when signing up
Mar 17, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.25

  • In the record details, display the Avro schemaId even when we fail to fetch it
Mar 8, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.24

  • Properly display schema registry fetching errors in the consume dialog
  • Prevent multi-toggle-buttons to be disable all at once and cause issues (acls, SR config, …)
  • Shortcuts using Shift+X are replaced by Shift+Alt+X to avoid triggering them when typing Shift+X in a textfield.
Mar 7, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.23

  • Display a warning for static broker config values not conveyed by Kafka.
Mar 4, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.22

  • It’s now possible to filter Schema Registry Subjects by schema ID. This can return multiple results, when the same schema is used in multiple subjects.
Mar 2, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.21

  • Changing broker configuration could lead to errors
  • Editing a Kafka Connect connectors not fully loaded could lead to an error
Feb 29, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.5

  • Show when an update is available at different places
  • Manage expired subscription
Feb 28, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.20

  • Fix multiplatform shortcuts (most shortcuts where working only on MacOS due to the “Meta” key usage)
Feb 27, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.4

  • Display changelog of multiple versions
Feb 27, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.3

  • Do not depend upon Github to check updates
Feb 27, 2020

Conduktor 2.0.2

  • Improve release process
Feb 25, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.19

  • Add “transitive” modes to the Schema Registry possible compatibilities.
  • Revamp Schema Registry compatibility dropdown UX and protect against misuses.
Feb 25, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.18

  • Revamp Security (ACLs) rendering and error management.
Feb 24, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.16

  • Format JSON when copied from consumer details or Avro schemas viewer
  • Add the Schema ID when viewing the Schema of a given consumed Avro record
Feb 22, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.13

  • Multi-selection of consumer groups to mass-remove them (like topics view)
Feb 20, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.12

  • Improve a lot the consumer performance and memory pressure
  • When deserializing Avro, null elements in arrays were misinterpreted.
  • In the consume window, the “Does not contain” filter was not working properly on headers
Feb 19, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.11

  • Migrate the user Kafka Consumer config to the new defaults if they are unchanged (they were too large).
Feb 19, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.10

  • Improve the performance when consuming (preventing locks)
  • Do not display topic count when not fully computed
Feb 15, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.9

  • Float and Double serde in the consumer
Feb 15, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.8

  • Check missing native weblibs on startup and display a warning icon in the status bar with the error (for now).
  • Remove border radius on tooltips because it’s buggy on the edges of the window.
Feb 15, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.7

  • ConsumeFrom configurations are now saved per topic. This will prevent the users to always select the same thing over and over for the same topic. (as we do with the serde and jq pattern)
Feb 14, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.2

  • We can load custom jars into Conduktor
    • to enjoy enterprise features from Confluent (acl.jar for instance, for specialized auth methods not in AK)
Feb 14, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.1

  • When converting Avro data to JSON, we now parse and stringify Avro’s logicalTypes to “human” format (no more timestamps, no more “bytes”).
Feb 14, 2020

Conduktor 1.11.0

  • Experimental tabular view when consuming data (experimental because we still have features to add, but it’s a good first iteration)
  • Redesign of the “consume from” combobox to a nice organized panel, that we will replicate to other fields to provide a better UX.
Feb 13, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.15

  • Introduce max parallelism settings when fetching the Schema Registry, to prevent overloading it.
Feb 13, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.14

  • Support for Avro UNION as root records
  • Support for nullable UNION with null second (instead of first generally)
Feb 12, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.13

  • Allow topics multi-selection and multi-actions
  • Simplify UI (less containers), remove some padding to have more display space
Feb 12, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.12

  • Produce with an Avro key was not using the right schema
Feb 12, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.11

  • Shortcuts everywhere. Hover buttons or links to discover if there is a shortcut. We made it consistent through “zones”:
    • Left menu: Cmd+…
    • Consumer/Producer: Shift+Cmd+…
    • Inside views: Ctrl+Cmd+…
  • We allow not only .pem files in the SSH configuration.
Feb 10, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.9

  • When consuming, fallback on latest offset when a given timestamp doesn’t exist in a partition.
    • It is used when using today, last hour, specific timestamp.
Feb 10, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.8

  • New consumer prop in the settings: FetchMaxWaitMs.
  • Prevent a misconfigured “null” hostname Kafka Connect to be taken into account.
  • Some editing bugs in the Kafka Connect configurations screen.
  • When we quickly start & stop consuming to topic, it was possible to show some WakeUpException error.
Feb 10, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.10

  • A read-only mode. It hides all controls and options which can impact the Kafka cluster, Kafka Connect etc.
Feb 8, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.7

  • It’s now possible to consume from an existing Consumer Group
    • It’s not yet user-friendly (popup errors in the consumer group has not committed offset on the topic for instance), but it works.
    • It will consume only the same partitions the consumer group committed into.
Feb 8, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.4

  • Shows the partitions progression when consuming a topic.
    • The max offsets are regularly fetched in the background, for topics ingesting new data in real-time.
  • The layout of the consume popup buttons has been slightly changed to adapt to the new partitions feature.
  • In the Consumer Group view, we’ve added a “(must be inactive)” for buttons that are only active when the consumer group is inactive (Reset Offsets or Delete), for the user to know.
Feb 6, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.1

  • The consume view now renders by timestamp desc automatically (before it was the original consumed order, where we have no control)
    • We made large improvements for reduce the memory impact while consuming lots of messages.
  • Default consumer settings were reduced because they were too large (?) (and caused client timeouts)
Feb 6, 2020

Conduktor 1.10.0

  • Conduktor now manage multiple instances of Kafka Connect in the configuration.
    • When creating a Connector, if the cluster has multiple Connects, we now need to pick which Connect to use
    • If the cluster has multiple Connects, a new column appears in the Connectors view, to know on which instance the Connector is running on.
    • A new metrics appears “Connect Instances” up/down.
  • We now always display help videos & links on the cluster configuration screen, not at creation time anymore.
Feb 5, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.7

  • Improve the error message when we try to send data not matching the Avro subject.
  • Prevent error when we fail to send an error (!)
Feb 4, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.6

  • We can now update existing Connectors (using the Wizard)
Feb 3, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.5

  • We now display Connector’s properties with a “null” group.
Feb 3, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.3

  • We can now filter records by header (key and/or value)
Feb 3, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.2

  • Change default consume mode to latest instead of earliest
  • Relayout and rephrase a bit the consume popup content to make things clearer
Feb 2, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.1

  • We built a new model around the Schema Registry data (json is automatically migrated) to structure the properties (previously in additionalProperties) and display auth methods properly.
Feb 1, 2020

Conduktor 1.9.0

  • Introduce the one-time login for users.
  • The login process now relies on an OpenID JWS token, and it’s now possible to start Conduktor offline.
  • The OpenID token will automatically be updated at runtime (using the refresh token) when necessary (when its expiration is coming)
  • Logout revokes the refresh token
Jan 30, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.9

  • Display hints when resizing table columns.
Jan 30, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.7

  • Optimize the layout (and memory footprint) of the consume popup (and other minor places).
  • When we change the schema registry properties and come back to the cluster, the changes were not taken into account.
Jan 30, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.10

  • Add original auth error as query string in the failure page
  • Send auth error to Sentry
Jan 29, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.6

  • Relayout the consume button in the topic list, because nobody is using the right one and because it’s the “main” feature.
  • Use smarter resizing columns in topics & consumers views
Jan 29, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.5

  • Restructure a bit the expand/collapse left menu
  • Error when adding characters in a numeric spinner and trying to use the +/- buttons
Jan 28, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.3

  • We can now duplicate clusters from the Cluster Configuration popup
  • Relayout and uniformize the Cluster Configuration popup content
Jan 28, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.1

  • Add check/uncheck all options in Settings to be explicit about the result.
Jan 28, 2020

Conduktor 1.8.0

  • Add options Settings to hide Schema Registry columns and prevent tons of slow I/O with bloated Schema Registries.
Jan 27, 2020

Conduktor 1.7.3

  • Use the command first when browsing on Linux. It appears the Java Desktop can freeze the app (and the OS) when calling .browse().
Jan 27, 2020

Conduktor 1.7.0

  • Add Copy/Paste via a Right-Click context menu on most useful values
Jan 27, 2020

Conduktor 1.6.2

  • Always compute and show offsets & count in the topic detailed view (no matter the flag “Show count” in the preferences)
Jan 27, 2020

Conduktor 1.6.1

  • kfoenix UI dependency: we were barely using it so we switched back to original controls.
Jan 26, 2020

Conduktor 1.6.0

  • Introduce Settings to configure the visibility of the main columns in Conduktor, and some Kafka Producer/Consumer/Admin flags.
Jan 26, 2020

Conduktor 1.5.10

  • In the producer popup, sometimes the JSON update fails for odd concurrent reasons. We retry.
Jan 25, 2020

Conduktor 1.5.9

  • Connectors: Always take into account the fields which have changed even when we fallback on the default value. This is to prevent some bug in connectors which are not taking their default value into account. (we don’t send default value, we are relying on what the connector is telling us)
Jan 24, 2020

Conduktor 1.5.7

  • Improve browser detection to open links (specially for Linux)
  • Menubar button with classic menus (settings to complete, about etc.)
Jan 24, 2020

Conduktor 1.4.0

  • We must have to login into Conduktor now. We are integrated with auth0, using a Native app with PKCE oauth flow.
Jan 22, 2020

Conduktor 1.3.0

  • Easter egg
Jan 21, 2020

Conduktor 1.2.0

  • If available, display the key/value Avro schema in the record details (consumer popup)
  • Hide GA errors in the logs
Jan 21, 2020

Conduktor 1.1.0

  • Reverted the previous improvement: it prevented the popups to be opened on another screen than its owner (on macos at least).
  • The visibility of the expand button in consume popup
  • Open the producer/consumer popup on the same screen at the origin UI
Jan 20, 2020

Conduktor 1.0.4

  • The visibility of the expand button in consume popup
  • Make the consume popup owner of its feedback popup to avoid screens issues