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.

Note

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

June 23, 2026 Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 8.3.0 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 8.3.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 8.3.0.

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.

  • Adds support for Java 25.

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 PKIs. Chains now assemble correctly for root and intermediate bundles, and for DoD-style partial chains.

  • Fixed an issue where OAuth client-assertion components failed to start on Confluent Platform 8.3. The new -Dorg.apache.kafka.sasl.oauthbearer.allowed.files JVM property is now passed to these components.

Known limitations

There are no known limitations in this release.

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.