Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) is continuously updated with new features and enhancements. This topic highlights the significant new and updated features, enhancements, bug fixes, and known limitations in each release.

For Confluent Platform and Confluent Ansible version compatibility, see Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.
To learn how to install Confluent Ansible and deploy Confluent Platform, see Download Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform and Install Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.

Note

For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in any release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

August 13, 2026 Confluent Ansible 7.5.16 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.5.16 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.16.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in this release.

New features

There are no new features in this release.

Enhancements

This release adds protection against Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) found in Confluent Platform. For more information, see the Confluent Platform 7.5.16 release notes.

Bug fixes

There are no bug fixes in this release.

Known limitations

There are no known limitations in this release.

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.

June 23, 2026 Confluent Ansible 7.5.15 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.5.15 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.15.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in this release.

New features

Adds the capability to generate a support bundle for Confluent Ansible playbook runs. See Support bundle.

Enhancements

Introduces a Confluent CLI v3.0.0 preflight assertion.

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the Kafka broker and Kafka controller to restart twice.
Fixed the issue with the security.properties copy task that failed to copy the file to the Ansible host.
Fixed kafka-storage format failures on KRaft clusters with secrets protection enabled. The master key is now passed to the format step using the CONFLUENT_SECURITY_MASTER_KEY environment variable. See Control master key regeneration.
Fixed custom certificate chain building for multi-tier and partial-chain PKI setups. Chains now assemble correctly for root and intermediate bundles, and for DoD-style partial chains.

Known limitations

There are no known limitations in this release.

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.13 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.13 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.13. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Fixed an issue where pipefail caused failures when extracting distinguished names from keystores in mTLS setups.
For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.12 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.12 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.12. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Enhanced security by masking potentially exposed sensitive secrets.
Fixed an issue related to ZooKeeper chroot creation.
Fixed idempotency on configuration files when using the secrets protection feature.
Added ability to override a list of loggers using the update_log4j task in the common role.
Made retries and delays in health checks configurable for users.
Introduced indexing and default rollover strategy for Log4j 2 file.
For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.11 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.11 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.11. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.10 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.10 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.10. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

Added configurations to enable Jolokia Access Control.

See Jolokia access control.

Notable fixes

For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.9 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.9 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.9. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

Ansible 9.x is now supported.

Notable fixes

For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.8 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.8 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.8. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

Introduced a new variable rbac_super_users to specify additional super users for the cluster.
Removed KRaft controller and Kafka broker dependency on each other for fetching certificate principals in RBAC-enabled clusters with mTLS.

Notable fixes

Fixed an issue in the Set Permissions on Data Dir files task to avoid a race condition.
Changed the systemd service override directory permissions from 640 to 750.
For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.7 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.7 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.7. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Fixed the ownership of data directory files in KRaft controllers and Kafka brokers.
Improved error handling in connector deployments.
Internal issues were resolved.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.6 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.6 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.6. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Internal issues were resolved, including critical security and vulnerability issues.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.5 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.5 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.5. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Confluent Ansible uses the archived Debian10 repository since Debian 10 reached the end of life.
Internal issues were resolved, including critical security and vulnerability issues.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.4 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.4 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.4. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Confluent Ansible now supports configuring a custom port for the KRaft controllers.

For setting up a custom port for KRaft, a new variable, kafka_controller_port, was introduced. 9093 is the default value.
Connect and ksqlDB clusters are now correctly registered in MDS even when Confluent Platform components are co-located.
3.55.0 is the default Confluent CLI version that is installed with Confluent Ansible.
Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.3 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.3 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.3. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.2 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.2 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.2. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.1 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.1 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.1. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

Updated default Confluent CLI version to 3.30.1.
Fixed bugs in Confluent Ansible Discovery to generate the inventory file with appropriate security protocols.
Ansible builtin File mode is now string instead of octal.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.0 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.0. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

New features

Confluent Ansible now enables FIPS in Confluent Platform on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9.

For details, see Enable FIPS in Confluent Platform.
You can configure single sign-on for Control Center (Legacy) using the Confluent Ansible.

For the configuration steps, see Configure single sign-on authentication for Control Center (Legacy).

Notable enhancements

Added capability to discover multiple workers in the Connect cluster in Confluent Ansible Discovery.
Added support to specify ansible_password in Confluent Ansible Discovery.

Upgrade consideration

You can use Confluent Ansible to upgrade Confluent Platform to 7.5 with Ansible versions 4 - 7 (ansible-core versions 2.11 - 2.14).

For more information, see Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.