v.2.5.0

Date: 24th of August, 2023

Overview

Klaw version 2.5.0 is a minor release with several new features and improvements.

New features

• React UI:
  In this release, we have redesigned some key user interfaces using React to enhance user experience and provide a more intuitive design:
  • Topic Overview including capabilities to
    • Review topic details
    • Edit and promote topics
    • Create and promote new schemas
    • Add and review subscriptions (ACL) for the creation and retrieval of passwords
    • See history to provide an audit trail of the topic
    • See messages to view Kafka events on the topic
    • Add and edit documentation (now: "Readme") in markdown format
    • Claim topics
  • "Request new..." quick action button: allows creating a new topic, subscription, schema or Kafka connector from everywhere in the new UI
• Import Data: Import previously exported Data back into Klaw

• High Availability: Klaw has been tested and updated to allow HA Clustering, with intercommunication between the clusters to keep them up to date.

• Connector configuration encryption:
  Password encryption for fields in connector configuration. The fields that are encrypted can be configured in the application.properties file.
• Editable Topic Requests:
  Ability to edit your topic requests to fix mistakes instead of deleting and recreating a whole new request.
• Identify Schemas deleted from Schema Registry:
  The superadmin can now use the "Schemas From Cluster" functionality to identify Schemas that have been deleted from the Schema Registry.

Improvements

• When Promoting a topic Advanced Configuration is preloaded from the lower environment to help prevent mistakes
• Toast Notifications in the React UI
• Improved Copy to make emails more informative.
• Improved DB querying to reduce data transfer between DB and Application
• Many small database performance enhancements

Bug Fixes

• #1651 Postgres deployments now support count queries for Approval tabs in React UI
• #1569 Promote OperationType now used for Schema promotion (previously "create")
  Enhancements
• #1550 Improved email copy on new installations
• #1414 Edit Topic can now also alter the Advanced Configuration
• #1622 Promoted Connector not added to Cache
• #1555 Superuser was able to access Coral UI
• #1546 Promoted Schema Requests should use PROMOTE Request operation Type
• #1591 Don't load users with empty passwords when auth type DB
• #1521 Add topic to cache after it is added to Klaw via Synchronization
• #1474 If deleting an ACL from Klaw that does not exist on the cluster executes successfully

Upgrade

To upgrade to this release, download the package from https://github.com/aiven/klaw/releases/tag/2.5.0 and follow the instructions on Klaw documentation to upgrade. You can also refer to the README file for information.

Change log

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0

Contributors

The below contributors have contributed to this release:

• Mirjam Aulbach, @programmiri
• Aindriú Lavelle, @aindriu-aiven
• Mathieu Anderson, @mathieu-anderson
• Sergey Nuyanzin, @snuyanzin
• Murali Basani, @muralibasani
• Josep Prat, @jlprat
• Roope Karhapaa, @roope-kar
• Samuli Suortti, @SmuliS

New Contributors

• 🎉 Arpit Sodani (@arpitsodani15) made their first contribution in #1421
• 🎉 Sadaf Ahmed ( @Sadaf-A) made their first contribution in #1569

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0