Release Notes

March 2024

You can now sync record headers for Kafka connectors. We have added a new column, headers, that stores record metadata as JSON key-value pairs.

This change applies to the following connectors:

• Apache Kafka
• AWS MSK
• Confluent Cloud
• Heroku Kafka

NOTE: For the existing connectors, we will now sync record headers only for new data.

November 2022

We have added new columns to support serialized keys. Learn more in our Schema information documentation.

February 2021

We have added support for Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) authentication with SCRAM-SHA-512.

January 2021

We now support Protobuf messages.

We now support Protobuf messages.

November 2020

We now support Avro messages.

We have added support for Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) authentication with PLAIN and SCRAM-SHA-256 mechanisms.

August 2018

Confluent Cloud is a managed distributed streaming platform.

Read our Confluent Cloud connector documentation.