Announcing the release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.6

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Announcing the release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.6

We're pleased to announce the release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.6. AMQ Streams simplifies the process of running Apache Kafka on OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

What's new in AMQ Streams 2.6

AMQ Streams 2.6 uses Kafka 3.6.0.
AMQ Streams 2.6 on OpenShift is based on Strimzi 0.38.x.
AMQ Streams 2.6 on OpenShift is supported on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 to 4.14.

AMQ Streams 2.6 on OpenShift features and enhancements

  • StableConnectIdentities feature gate is now enabled by default
  • Block or skip scale-down operations if replicas present
  • Support for stopping connectors from running
  • Run parallel ZooKeeper-based and KRaft-based Kafka clusters
  • Pause reconciliation of KafkaTopic resources in unidirectional mode
  • Unidirectional Topic Operator metrics
  • Support for manual rolling update of Kafka Connect and Kafka MirrorMaker 2 pods
  • Infinite automatic restarts of connectors
  • CPU capacity configuration logic in Cruise Control
  • OAuth 2.0 accept header exclude option

AMQ Streams 2.6 on RHEL features and enhancements

  • OAuth 2.0 accept header exclude option

For more information on the AMQ Streams 2.6 features and enhancements, see the AMQ Streams 2.6 Release notes.

Previews

AMQ Streams 2.6 on OpenShift includes the following developer and technology previews to try:

  • Try configuring node pools with the KafkaNodePools feature gate
  • Try the Unidirectional Topic Operator with the UnidirectionalTopicOperator feature gate
  • Try Kafka KRaft mode with the UseKRaft feature gate

Kafka KRaft mode is also available as a technology preview for AMQ Streams 2.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Deprecated features

  • The secrets.io.strimzi.kafka.EnvVarConfigProvider environment variable configuration provider is deprecated, replaced with Kafka's own environment variable configuration provider (org.apache.kafka.common.config.provider.EnvVarConfigProvider).

Get AMQ Streams 2.6

Get AMQ Streams 2.6 on OpenShift container images from the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.

Download AMQ Streams 2.6 installation files from the software downloads page.

AMQ Streams 2.6 documentation

For more information on AMQ Streams, see the product documentation.

  • Product
  • Red Hat AMQ
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams
  • Tags
  • amqstreams