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# Confluent CLI Release Notes

The Confluent CLI is continuously updated with improvements and new
features. This page highlights significant user-facing features and updates to
the interface.

## [8/28/2026] Confluent CLI v4.74.0 Release Notes

### Breaking Changes

- Remove the `--default-pool` flag for `confluent flink compute-pool update` command since the field is immutable after creation
- Rename the `--confluent-platform-kafka-cluster` flag to `--kafka-cluster-id` for `confluent usm connect-cluster create`

### New Features

- Rename the “Confluent Platform Kafka Cluster Id” output field to “Kafka Cluster Id” for the `confluent usm connect-cluster` commands
- Show Flink SQL statement warnings with their severity, reason, and timestamp in the Flink SQL shell, on dry runs, and in confluent flink statement describe and confluent flink statement create. Warnings are listed most severe first
- Add a warnings field to the serialized output of confluent flink statement describe, confluent flink statement create, and confluent flink statement list so -o json and -o yaml consumers can read each warning’s severity, reason, message, and creation time
- Add `OrganizationId` field to the `confluent flink compute-pool-config [describe | update]` commands output
- Support `--context` flag for `confluent flink compute-pool-config [describe | update]` commands
- Improve the `Short` description for `confluent flink compute-pool-config [describe | update]` commands
- Support `--wait` and `--timeout` optional flags for the `confluent flink compute-pool create` command
- Support optional environment ID bypass for `confluent environment update` command

### Bug Fixes

- Switch the command name and alias for `confluent usm [connect-cluster | kafka-cluster] [register | deregister]` commands so that `[register | deregister]` are the default operations and `[create | delete]` are the aliases
- Fix Flink SQL statement warnings disappearing shortly after a statement was submitted, and multiple warnings being joined into a single unreadable line
- Add support to report error when an Organization is Paused
- Remove the unnecessary `--output` flag for `confluent flink compute-pool unset` command
- Add `--context` optional flag for `confluent flink compute-pool [create | describe | update | list]` commands to align with the `delete` command

## [8/17/2026] Confluent CLI v4.73.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Rename `confluent unified-stream-manager [connect | kafka] [register | deregister]` command to `confluent usm [connect-cluster | kafka-cluster] [create | delete]` command and add the previous names as aliases
- Add optional search filter flag `--region` for `confluent flink region list` command

## [8/6/2026] Confluent CLI v4.72.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the `--metadata-column-naming-scheme` flag to `confluent tableflow topic [enable | update]` to select the naming scheme (“DEFAULT” or “PORTABLE”) for a Tableflow topic’s internal metadata columns

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a typo in the error suggestions for `confluent iam service-account` commands which pointed users to the wrong `list` command
- `confluent kafka acl delete` now prints its confirmation message to stdout instead of stderr, consistent with other `delete` commands

## [7/30/2026] Confluent CLI v4.71.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--wait` and `--timeout` optional flags for the `confluent rtce rtce-topic create` command

## [7/22/2026] Confluent CLI v4.70.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a typo in one of the examples for the `confluent network gateway create` command

## [7/2/2026] Confluent CLI v4.70.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--deletion-protection` flag to `confluent kafka cluster [ create | update ]` command

## [6/30/2026] Confluent CLI v4.69.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add on-premises `confluent flink system-info` command to display CMF system information (version and revision)
- Improve transitional state tracking for `confluent flink statement create` command to use a unified `--wait` polling framework. `FAILING`, `STOPPING`, and `DELETING` are now treated as transitional states instead of terminal states

## [6/25/2026] Confluent CLI v4.68.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the `confluent endpoint endpoint list` command to list Azure, Flink, or Schema Registry endpoints
- Added on-premises `confluent flink application instance [describe | list]` commands
- Added on-premises `confluent flink secret-mapping [create | delete | describe | list | update]` commands to manage CMF secret mappings
- Added an on-premises `confluent flink application event list` command
- Added on-premises `confluent flink secrets [create | delete | describe | list | update]` commands to manage CMF Secrets (sensitive credentials used by Flink SQL catalogs)

### Bug Fixes

- Fixed `confluent local services start` so Confluent Control Center displays broker and controller metrics on Confluent Platform 8.0 and later; previously the cluster could appear degraded in Control Center with “Metrics data not available”

## [6/22/2026] Confluent CLI v4.67.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- The `confluent api-key [store | use]` commands now support Global API keys; note that an active cluster-scoped key will take precedence over an active global key

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug where `confluent kafka cluster describe` could show incorrect schema counts
- Fix the error message for the `confluent kafka cluster list` command when user is not logged in
- Resolve an Avro deserialization bug for floats and doubles when running `confluent kafka topic consume` on Linux s390x

## [6/10/2026] Confluent CLI v4.66.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add additional logging statements at the trace and unsafe trace levels for dataplane commands

## [6/8/2026] Confluent CLI v4.65.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--require-crl-on-client-certificate` flag to `confluent iam certificate-authority [ create | update | describe | list ]` command to enable CRL validation on client certificates

## [5/28/2026] Confluent CLI v4.64.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the on-premises `confluent flink catalog update` command to update CMF Kafka Catalog
- Add the on-premises `confluent flink catalog database [create | list | describe | update | delete]` commands to manage Kafka databases (Kafka cluster connections) inside a Flink SQL catalog

### Bug Fixes

- Bug fixes and improvements

## [5/22/2026] Confluent CLI v4.63.0 Release Notes

### Breaking Changes

- Removed the `confluent custom-code-logging` command group; the Custom Code Logging API has been deprecated

### New Features

- `confluent flink endpoint list` and `confluent flink endpoint use` now use the Confluent Cloud Endpoints API, surfacing endpoint shapes (notably, multi-PLATT PrivateLink Gateway access points) that the legacy implementation could not represent
- Add new `--custom-database`, `--custom-namespace`, and `--custom-schema` flags for `confluent tableflow catalog-integration [create | update]`
- Add new “Custom Database”, “Custom Namespace”, and “Custom Schema” output fields for `confluent tableflow catalog-integration` commands

## [5/14/2026] Confluent CLI v4.62.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “global” option for confluent api-key [create | list] –resource
- Add `confluent rtce rtce-topic [ create | delete | describe | list | update ]`, and `confluent rtce region list` commands for managing Real Time Context Engine in Confluent Cloud

### Bug Fixes

- Restore `confluent flink compute-pool [ list | describe | update ]` on Confluent Platform, which had been broken by an upstream `cmf-sdk-go` v0.0.6 schema regression that caused `ComputePool.status` to fail to decode.

## [5/7/2026] Confluent CLI v4.61.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Azure Private Link ingress gateway and access point support (`--cloud azure --type ingress-privatelink`) for `confluent network gateway` and `confluent network access-point private-link ingress-endpoint` commands
- Add GCP Private Service Connect ingress gateway and access point support (`--cloud gcp --type ingress-private-service-connect`) for `confluent network gateway` and `confluent network access-point private-link ingress-endpoint` commands
- Add `confluent kafka share-group [describe | list]` and `confluent kafka share-group consumer list` commands to support managing Kafka Share Groups in Confluent Platform

### Bug Fixes

- Fix crash in `confluent api-key delete` command when encountering an error while updating the config file

## [4/30/2026] Confluent CLI v4.60.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Added `confluent flink materialized-table [ create | list | describe | update | stop | resume ]` commands for managing Materialized Tables in Confluent Cloud.

## [4/27/2026] Confluent CLI v4.59.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add example for `confluent iam rbac role-binding create` showing how to create a role binding for the Assigner role on a service account

## [4/14/2026] Confluent CLI v4.58.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--routes` flag to `confluent network access-point private-network-interface [create | update]` commands
- Display egress routes in the `confluent network access-point private-network-interface [describe | list]` output

## [4/3/2026] Confluent CLI v4.57.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the `--default-pool` flag for `confluent flink compute-pool [create | update]` commands to support Flink default Compute Pool feature
- Add the `confluent flink compute-pool-config [describe | update]` commands to support reading and updating Flink Compute Pool Configs

## [3/30/2026] Confluent CLI v4.56.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add GCP support for `confluent connect artifact` commands
- Add support for username/password authentication for Elastic connection type in `confluent flink connection [create | update]` commands

## [3/17/2026] Confluent CLI v4.55.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the `--schema-id-header` flag to `confluent kafka topic produce` to serialize schema IDs in the header instead of in the message prefix

## [3/10/2026] Confluent CLI v4.54.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--display-name` flag to `confluent iam service-account list` command.
- Add “anthropic” connection type support for confluent flink connection
- Add “fireworksai” connection type support for confluent flink connection
- Add “s3vectors” connection type support for confluent flink connection

### Bug Fixes

- Resolve an issue that could cause the `confluent login` command to crash when displaying remaining free credits

## [2/20/2026] Confluent CLI v4.53.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- General updates and improvements

## [2/3/2026] Confluent CLI v4.52.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--type ingress-privatelink` flag to `confluent network gateway create` to support a new type of Ingress Private Link for AWS, and add `--display-name`, `--region`, `--id`, and `--phase` flags to `confluent network gateway list` command to support filtering gateways
- Add `confluent network access-point private-link ingress-endpoint [ create | update | describe | list | delete ]` commands to support a new type of Ingress Private Link for AWS

## [1/30/2026] Confluent CLI v4.51.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--flink-region` flag for `confluent iam rbac role-binding [create | delete | list]` commands to manage `FlinkDeveloper` bindings with compute pool resources
- `confluent kafka topic consume` now supports consuming messages with schema IDs serialized in the header

## [1/13/2026] Confluent CLI v4.50.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- General updates and improvements

## [1/8/2026] Confluent CLI v4.49.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Azure support to `confluent connect artifact` commands
- Add `--display-name` flag to `confluent byok [create | list]` commands
- Add `confluent byok update` command
- Add fields `Phase`, `Since`, `Message` and `Region` to `confluent byok [describe | list]` commands
- Add `--key`, `--phase`, `--region` flags to `confluent byok list` command to provide filter options
- Add `Id` to the output of the `confluent kafka link [list | describe]` commands
- Add `State`, `Error` and `Error Message` fields to on-prem `confluent kafka link [list | describe]` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fix creating statement in Confluent Platform Flink SQL shell without explicit names

## [12/18/2025] Confluent CLI v4.48.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent flink savepoint` and `confluent flink detached-savepoint` commands

## [12/18/2025] Confluent CLI v4.47.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add a new “Max eCKU” output field for `confluent kafka cluster` commands
- Add a new `--max-ecku` flag for the `confluent kafka cluster [create | update]` commands to optionally override the default Max eCKU limit with a custom value for Basic, Standard, Enterprise, and Freight cluster types
- Add basic authentication support for the “mcp_server” connection type for `confluent flink connection [create | list]`

## [12/11/2025] Confluent CLI v4.46.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Client-Side Payload Encryption (CSPE) Support for CLI
- Add new `identity-provider` and `certificate-authority` scopes to both the description and the autocomplete suggestions for the `confluent service-quota list` command

### Bug Fixes

- Resolve an issue causing `confluent kafka cluster describe` to display incorrect “Ingress Limit” and “Egress Limit” values

## [11/21/2025] Confluent CLI v4.45.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Azure support for the `confluent tableflow [create | list]` commands
- [Open Preview] Add “a2a” as a new connection type for `confluent flink connection [create | list]`
- [Closed Preview] Add new `confluent kafka share-group [list | describe | consumer list]` commands for managing Kafka Share Groups to enhance support for queue-style consumption patterns in Apache Kafka

## [11/20/2025] Confluent CLI v4.44.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Resolve an issue where on-premises users without access to confluent.cloud could experience significant delays when running commands.

## [11/13/2025] Confluent CLI v4.44.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add back the `confluent provider-integration v2` commands to fully support provider integrations for Azure and GCP.

### Bug Fixes

- Fix the display of `ingress`, `egress` and `storage` limit for `confluent kafka cluster [create | describe | update]` commands.

## [10/24/2025] Confluent CLI v4.43.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add new “Error Handling” and “Log Target” output fields for `confluent tableflow topic` commands
- Add new flags `--error-handling` and `--log-target` for the `confluent tableflow topic [enable | update]` commands

### Bug Fixes

- `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume]` now displays log messages at the appropriate verbosity level
- `confluent asyncapi export --consume-examples` now displays consumer log messages at the appropriate verbosity level

## [10/22/2025] Confluent CLI v4.42.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `Catalog Sync Status` and `Failing Table Format` fields to enable Delta table support in Tableflow Topic configuration
- Add `confluent tableflow catalog-integration [create | describe | list | delete]` commands to support Unity catalog

## [10/15/2025] Confluent CLI v4.40.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent provider-integration v2` commands to support provider integrations for Azure and GCP

## [10/1/2025] Confluent CLI v4.39.1 Release Notes

### Breaking Changes

- WARNING: The following bug fixes are intended for users of Confluent Manager for Apache Flink® 2.0; changes in various field names of the YAML output of on-premises `confluent flink` commands are breaking changes for versions 1.0 and 1.1

### Bug Fixes

- Fixes an issue where the on-premises `confluent flink application create`, `confluent flink catalog create`, and `confluent flink compute-pool create` commands could not read the `apiVersion` field for YAML input files
- Output fields with “null” values in the YAML output of `confluent flink [application | catalog | compute-pool | environment | statement]` commands are now omitted instead of displaying “null”
- All output fields in the YAML output of `confluent flink [application | catalog | compute-pool | environment | statement]` commands now use the same format as the API instead of being lowercase
- Fixes an issue where the `--statement-defaults` flag for the on-premises `confluent flink environment [create | update]` commands did not correctly parse YAML input files

## [9/29/2025] Confluent CLI v4.39.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Open Preview] Add new optional flag `--transport-type [SSE | STREAMABLE_HTTP]` for `confluent flink connection` command “mcp_server” connection type
- Add support for Azure peering networks in `confluent schema-registry endpoint list`, `confluent flink endpoint list`, and `confluent flink endpoint use`
- Update `confluent local kafka start` to use the newer 8.0.0 version of the “confluent-local” Docker image
- Add new SQL data type **STRUCTURED_TYPE** support for `confluent flink shell` command

## [9/17/2025] Confluent CLI v4.38.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `Write Mode` output field for `confluent tableflow topic [describe | list | enable | update]` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug filtering out results by connector ID for `confluent connect logs` command

## [9/2/2025] Confluent CLI v4.37.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Support for confluent control center local for Confluent Platform 8.0 and 8.1

### Bug Fixes

- `confluent flink shell` will no longer store secrets in the statement history
- Improve overall performance when feature flags are enabled
- The `confluent ccpm` and `confluent connect artifact` command groups are no longer hidden

## [8/29/2025] Confluent CLI v4.36.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- General updates and improvements

## [8/11/2025] Confluent CLI v4.35.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Open Preview] Add an additional `KSQL` option to the `--operations` flag for `confluent iam ip-filter create` and `confluent iam ip-filter update` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Improve the description and examples of the `--permanent` flag for `confluent schema-registry schema delete` command for better clarity
- Fix a corner case scenario for `confluent connect custom-connector-runtime list` command where the “End Of Life At” field is not populated correctly

## [7/31/2025] Confluent CLI v4.34.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Azure PrivateLink support for `confluent flink endpoint [list | use]` and `confluent schema-registry endpoint list` commands

### Bug Fixes

- `confluent flink endpoint list` no longer displays unsupported endpoints
- `confluent flink endpoint use` no longer accepts unsupported endpoints

## [7/29/2025] Confluent CLI v4.33.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent kafka cluster endpoint [ list | use ]` commands to support Private Network Interface (PNI) gateways and allow user to specify a Public, PrivateLink or PNI endpoint
- Add `confluent connect custom-connector-runtime list` command
- Add support for Kafka IP Filter operation groups
- Add `--property` flag to `confluent flink statement create` command

## [7/24/2025] Confluent CLI v4.32.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent connect logs` command to retrieve connector logs
- Add “Table Path” output field for `confluent tableflow topic` commands
- Rename `confluent tableflow topic create` to `confluent tableflow topic enable`, and add `create` as an alias to preserve existing workflows and avoid a breaking change
- Rename `confluent tableflow topic delete` to `confluent tableflow topic disable`, and add `delete` as an alias to preserve existing workflows and avoid a breaking change
- Add “Mirror Topic Error” field to `kafka mirror describe` command

## [7/18/2025] Confluent CLI v4.31.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Cloud `confluent ccpm` commands to manage custom Connect plugins
- [Open Preview] Add “rest” and “mcp_server” as new connection types for `confluent flink connection [create | list]`
- Add a new “Status” field to the output of `confluent connect artifact` commands to show the current processing state

## [7/3/2025] Confluent CLI v4.30.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue affecting GCP-related `confluent connect custom-plugin` commands

## [7/1/2025] Confluent CLI v4.30.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the on-premises `confluent flink shell` command
- Add GCP support for `confluent connect custom-plugin` command

## [6/12/2025] Confluent CLI v4.29.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add additional endpoints under “Private Regional Endpoint URLs” for `confluent schema-registry endpoint list` command
- Add the “Remote Cluster” field to the output of on-premises `confluent kafka link [describe | list]` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Add missing `--remote-cluster`, `--remote-bootstrap-server`, `--remote-api-key`, `--remote-api-secret`, `--local-api-key`, and `--local-api-secret` flags for the on-premises `confluent kafka link create` command

## [6/4/2025] Confluent CLI v4.28.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Confluent Platform `confluent flink statement`, `confluent flink compute-pool` and `confluent flink catalog` commands
- Add additional flags `--statement-defaults` and `--compute-pool-defaults` for the Confluent Platform `confluent flink environment create` and `confluent flink environment update` commands to support specifying the default Flink statement and compute pool
- Add the “Zone Info” field to `confluent network` commands
- Add `confluent connect artifact [create | describe | list | delete]` commands to manage Custom SMTs (Single Message Transform) for fully-managed connectors

## [5/23/2025] Confluent CLI v4.27.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Support `PRIVATE_NETWORK_INTERFACE` network type for `confluent kafka region list` command

## [5/16/2025] Confluent CLI v4.27.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Handle multiple rows for the same primary key for `confluent flink shell` commands

## [5/2/2025] Confluent CLI v4.26.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- `confluent local services` no longer sets `consumer.interceptor.classes` and `producer.interceptor.classes` configuration options by default when used with Confluent Platform 8.0
- `confluent kafka quota list` now works when a cluster has more than 100 quotas

## [4/21/2025] Confluent CLI v4.26.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- When using the CLI with Confluent Platform 8.0, “control-center” is not an available service for `confluent local services`
- When using the CLI with Confluent Platform 7.9 or lower, “control-center” will continue to be available for `confluent local services`
- When using the CLI with Confluent Platform 8.0, “zookeeper” is replaced by “kraft-controller” for `confluent local services`, and all services will run in KRaft mode
- When using the CLI with Confluent Platform 7.9 or lower, `confluent local services` will continue to run in Zookeeper mode

### Bug Fixes

- `confluent asyncapi export` now correctly handles Avro union types in examples output

## [4/16/2025] Confluent CLI v4.25.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Restore “control-center” for `confluent local services`
- Restore Zookeeper mode for `confluent local services`; adding back “zookeeper” and removing the new “kraft-controller”
- The `confluent flink shell` command now supports statement warnings, which will be gradually added

## [4/14/2025] Confluent CLI v4.24.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- `confluent local services` now uses KRaft instead of Zookeeper

## [4/7/2025] Confluent CLI v4.23.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add new `--client-cert-path` and `--client-key-path` flags to `confluent login` to support on-premises mTLS login
- Add a new `--certificate-only` flag to `confluent login` for on-premises mTLS login without username/password or SSO
- Add new `--client-cert-path` and `--client-key-path` flags to all on-premises MDS and schema registry commands
- Add new “CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CLIENT_CERT_PATH” and “CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CLIENT_KEY_PATH” mTLS environment variables

### Bug Fixes

- Fix an issue preventing the CLI from refreshing the authentication token while running the on-premises `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume]` commands
- Fix an issue causing the on-premises `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume]` commands to fail to start
- Fix an issue causing `confluent local kafka topic consume` to fail to start

## [4/2/2025] Confluent CLI v4.22.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent flink endpoint list` and `confluent flink endpoint use` commands to support Flink CCN endpoint feature
- Add informational message and suggestion for `confluent flink connectivity-type use` command
- Add optional `--identity-claim` flag to `confluent iam provider` command to support union of pools feature
- Add GCP support for `confluent network private-link attachment`

## [3/27/2025] Confluent CLI v4.21.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “private_regional_endpoint_url” field to `schema-registry cluster describe` command
- Add `schema-registry endpoint list` command
- Add `--schema-registry-endpoint` flag to Schema Registry Cloud commands
- Add `--type` flag to `kafka cluster update` command to allow for cluster upgrades from “Basic” to “Standard”

### Bug Fixes

- Fix an issue causing `confluent flink compute-pool list` to sometimes not display all compute pools

## [3/18/2025] Confluent CLI v4.20.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent tableflow` commands to manage Tableflow topics and catalog integrations

## [3/18/2025] Confluent CLI v4.19.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support for `confluent login`
- Add `--resource-owner` flag to `confluent iam service-account`, `confluent iam pool`, and `confluent iam certificate-pool` create commands

### Bug Fixes

- Require `--unsafe-trace` to print the HTTP request and response on `confluent login`
- Prevent `confluent flink shell` from crashing when window is too small
- The “Availability” field for Freight clusters in `confluent kafka cluster` commands should now show “high” or “low” instead of “multi-zone” or “single-zone”

## [2/27/2025] Confluent CLI v4.18.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fix `--consume-examples` for `confluent asyncapi export` command to match the asyncapi documentation
- Fix `--consume-examples` for `confluent asyncapi export` command to work with multiple topics

## [2/20/2025] Confluent CLI v4.18.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Allow on-premises Flink commands to work with MDS authentication

## [2/4/2025] Confluent CLI v4.17.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “couchbase” as a new Flink connection type

### Bug Fixes

- Fix broken link highlighting in `confluent local kafka start`

## [1/24/2025] Confluent CLI v4.16.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Added “ForwardViaGcpDnsZones” support for DNS Forwarders for Confluent Cloud
- Add “GCP” option for `confluent network access-point private-link egress-endpoint` commands in Confluent Cloud
- Add “GCP” field in `confluent network gateway [describe | list]`

## [1/23/2025] Confluent CLI v4.15.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Better formatting for multiline “SHOW CREATE TABLE” and “SHOW JOBS” output when using `confluent flink shell`
- Add “Cloud”, “Region” and “Environment” fields to `confluent flink connection` commands
- Add Azure support for `confluent flink artifact create`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug causing on-premises `confluent flink` commands to be incorrectly hidden

## [12/19/2024] Confluent CLI v4.14.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `ruleSet` and Key Management Service (KMS) driver support to finalize the Client Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) feature for `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume]`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug preventing users from consuming audit logs with `confluent kafka topic consume`
- Fix bugs preventing users from producing or consuming from a Cloud cluster while logged out using `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume] --bootstrap`
- Improve error messaging for `confluent flink connection` commands
- Stack traces for some errors are now included in the output of the `-vvvv` debug flag

## [12/9/2024] Confluent CLI v4.13.2 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fix SSO login failure
- Validate `--environment` for `confluent flink artifact` commands
- Fix an issue causing `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume]` to fail on Windows when using the `--api-key` and `--api-secret` flag

## [12/6/2024] Confluent CLI v4.13.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Show the correct partition count in the output of `confluent kafka topic update --config num.partitions=X`
- Do not notify of major version updates when there are only minor version updates
- Fix an architecture error for `confluent local kafka start`
- Prevent `confluent asyncapi export` from always failing when `--consume-examples` is passed
- `confluent flink shell` now outputs a message and the statement name before submitting it for better progress output

## [11/22/2024] Confluent CLI v4.13.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support `confluent flink statement [update | resume] <name>` with `--principal` and/or `--compute-pool`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix for `Error: malformed body: Unsupported destination, supported value ["Kafka"]` issue when running `confluent custom-code-logging update`
- Improve the `confluent flink statement [update | stop | resume]` examples with more accurate descriptions

## [11/20/2024] Confluent CLI v4.12.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add the “Mirror Partition States Count” field for `confluent kafka link describe`
- [Early Access] Add `confluent network access-point private-network-interface` commands for managing private network interfaces
- [Early Access] Add “private-network-interface” option for `confluent network gateway create --type`
- [Early Access] Add “freight” option for `confluent kafka cluster create --type`
- Add “tableflow” option for `confluent api-key [create | list] --resource`

## [11/16/2024] Confluent CLI v4.11.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- General updates and improvements

## [11/13/2024] Confluent CLI v4.10.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--output` flag for `confluent flink environment [create | describe | update]`
- Add `--environment` flag for `confluent flink artifact` commands
- Add new “Description” and “Documentation Link” fields for `confluent flink artifact` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Remove unsupported “human” option for the `--output` flag in the `--help` documentation of `confluent flink application [create | describe | update]`
- Improve error messages for `confluent flink application` and `confluent flink environment` commands
- `confluent flink application web-ui-forward` now works without the `--url` flag

## [10/29/2024] Confluent CLI v4.9.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent network gateway [create | delete | update]` to manage gateways

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug preventing `confluent kafka topic consume` from consuming Avro, Protobuf, and JSONSchema messages correctly produced with CLI version 4.7.0 or earlier

## [10/25/2024] Confluent CLI v4.8.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add support for client side field level encryption (CSFLE) feature for `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume`
- Added “LatestOffsets” and “LatestOffsetsTimestamp” fields to the `flink statement describe` and `flink statement list` commands

### Bug Fixes

- `confluent asyncapi export` now uses Kafka bootstrap urls for creating Kafka consumers

## [10/9/2024] Confluent CLI v4.7.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent flink application` and `confluent flink environment` commands for managing on-premises Flink applications and environments
- Add `confluent kafka mirror truncate-and-restore`

## [10/4/2024] Confluent CLI v4.6.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Limited Availability] Add `confluent iam certificate-authority` and `confluent iam certificate-pool` commands to manage mTLS authentication

### Bug Fixes

- Update the confirmation prompt in `confluent flink artifact delete` to warn users that it might affect running statements

## [9/27/2024] Confluent CLI v4.5.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent flink statement update` for updating a statement’s principal and compute pool, or stopping a statement
- Add `confluent provider-integration` commands for managing provider integrations
- Add on-premises support for Confluent Managed Flink (CMF) and Flink environments in `confluent cluster register` and `confluent iam rbac role-binding` commands
- [Early Access] Add `confluent connect custom-plugin version` commands for managing custom Connect plugin versions

### Bug Fixes

- Default to “Essentials” Stream Governance package in `confluent environment create`
- Use correct version number in module name
- Allow `confluent kafka cluster configuration` commands to be used while logged out
- No longer require `--passphrase-new` in `confluent secret file rotate`

## [9/12/2024] Confluent CLI v4.4.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent flink connection` commands for managing Flink connections
- Add `--class` to `confluent flink artifact create`

## [9/6/2024] Confluent CLI v4.3.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “Class”, “Cloud”, “Region”, and “Environment” to the `confluent flink artifact` commands
- Add “Private Endpoint URL” and “Catalog Endpoint URL” to `confluent schema-registry cluster describe`

## [8/27/2024] Confluent CLI v4.2.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- General updates and improvements

## [8/26/2024] Confluent CLI v4.1.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “Azure Private Endpoint Custom DNS Config Domains” field to `confluent network access-point` commands

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## [8/15/2024] Confluent CLI v4.0.0 Release Notes

### Breaking Changes

- Remove `confluent schema-registry cluster [delete | enable | upgrade]` and `confluent schema-registry region list` commands
- Remove `confluent context create` command
- Remove the configuration and partition-replica lists from `confluent kafka topic describe` for on-premises; these lists are now available through new on-premises `confluent kafka topic configuration list` and `confluent kafka replica list` commands
- Remove the configuration and partition-replica lists from `confluent local kafka topic describe`; topic configurations are available through a new `confluent local kafka topic configuration list` command
- Rename `confluent schema-registry exporter get-config` to `confluent schema-registry exporter configuration describe`
- Rename `confluent schema-registry exporter get-status` to `confluent schema-registry exporter status describe`
- Rename `confluent schema-registry compatibility validate` to `confluent schema-registry schema compatibility validate`
- Rename `confluent schema-registry config` to `confluent schema-registry configuration`
- Rename `confluent kafka topic describe` to `confluent kafka topic configuration list` for Confluent Cloud
- Rename `confluent kafka replica list` to `confluent kafka replica status list`
- Rename `confluent kafka broker describe` to `confluent kafka broker configuration list`
- Rename `confluent kafka broker update` to `confluent kafka broker configuration update`
- Rename `confluent local kafka broker describe` to `confluent local kafka broker configuration list`
- Rename `confluent local kafka broker update` to `confluent local kafka broker configuration update`
- Rename `confluent price list` to `confluent billing price list`
- Rename `confluent admin [payment | promo]` subcommands to `confluent billing [payment | promo]` subcommands
- Rename `confluent kafka broker get-tasks` to `confluent kafka broker task list` and remove the `--all` flag; this functionality is now implicit when no broker ID is provided
- Remove the `--all` flag from `confluent kafka broker describe`; this functionality has been moved to a new on-premises `confluent kafka cluster configuration list` command
- Remove the `--all` flag from `confluent kafka broker update`; this functionality has been moved to a new on-premises `confluent kafka cluster configuration update` command
- Remove deprecated `--api-key` and `--api-secret` flags from all `confluent schema-registry` commands
- Remove the `--context` flag from `confluent environment use`, `confluent flink region use`, `confluent service-account use`, and `confluent kafka cluster use`
- Remove the `--environment` from `confluent flink region use` and `confluent kafka cluster use`
- Replace the `--schema` flag for `confluent schema-registry schema compatibility validate` with a required argument
- Replace the `--name` flag for `confluent kafka quota create` with a required argument
- Replace the `--name` flag for `confluent schema-registry kek create` with a required argument
- Rename `--organization-id` to `--organization` for `confluent login`
- Rename `--group-id` to `--group` for `confluent asyncapi export`
- Rename `--kms-key-id` to `--kms-key` for `confluent schema-registry kek create`
- Rename `--deleted` to `--all` for `confluent schema-registry subject describe` and `confluent schema-registry subject list`
- Rename `--aws-account-id` to `--aws-account` for `confluent stream-share consumer redeem`
- Rename `--azure-subscription-id` to `--azure-subscription` for `confluent stream-share consumer redeem`
- Rename `--gcp-project-id` to `--gcp-project` for `confluent stream-share consumer redeem`
- Rename `--config-name` to `--config` for `confluent kafka broker describe` and `confluent local kafka broker describe`
- Rename  `--provider` to `--cloud` for `confluent byok` commands
- Rename `--ca-location` and `--ca-cert-path` to `--certificate-authority-path` for all commands which use these flags
- The `--subject` flag is now required for `confluent schema-registry schema compatibility validate`
- The `--type` flag is now required for `confluent schema-registry schema compatibility validate` for Confluent Cloud
- The `--config` flag is now required for `confluent kafka topic update`
- The `--passphrase` and `--passphrase-new` flags are now required for `confluent secret file rotate` and no longer accept pipes or files
- The `--passphrase` flag is now required for `confluent secret master-key generate` and no longer accepts pipes or files
- The `--config` flag for `confluent secret file add`, `confluent secret file remove`, and `confluent secret file update` no longer accepts pipes or files
- The broker ID is now a required argument for `confluent kafka broker list` and `confluent kafka broker update`
- The API key and secret are now required arguments for `confluent api-key store`
- Remove “Cloud Name” (human) and “cloud_name” (serialized) from the output of `confluent kafka region list`
- Remove “Read-Only” (human) and “read_only” (serialized) from the output of `confluent configuration` commands
- Rename “Name” to “ID” (human) and “name” to “id” (serialized) in the output of `confluent plugin search`; a new “Name” (human) and “name” (serialized) field has been added in its place
- Rename “Kafka” to “Kafka Cluster” (human) and “kafka” to “kafka_cluster” (serialized) in the output of `confluent ksql cluster` commands
- Rename “Schema Registry Secret” to “Schema Registry API Secret” (human) and “schema_registry_secret” to “schema_registry_api_secret” (serialized) in the output of `confluent stream-share consumer redeem`
- Rename “Resource Display Name” to “Resource Name” (human) and “resource_display_name” to “resource_name” (serialized) in the output of `confluent billing cost list`
- Rename “Provider” to “Cloud” (human) and “provider” to “cloud” (serialized) in the output of `confluent kafka cluster describe`
- Rename “Service Provider” to “Cloud” (human) and “service_provider” to “cloud” (serialized) in the output of `confluent kafka cluster list`
- Rename “Service Provider Region” to “Region” (human) and “service_provider_region” to “region” (serialized) in the output of `confluent kafka cluster list`
- Rename “Schema ID” to “ID” (human) and “schema_id” to “id” (serialized) in the output of `schema-registry schema list`
- Rename “Region Name” to “Name” (human) and “region_name” to “name” (serialized) in the output of “confluent kafka region list”
- Rename “Region ID” to “Region” (human) and “region_id” to “region” (serialized) in the output of “confluent kafka region list”
- Rename “Cloud ID” to “Cloud” (human) and “cloud_id” to “cloud” (serialized) in the output of “confluent kafka region list”
- Rename “Resource ID” and “Environment ID” to “Resource” and “Environment” (human) and “resource_id” and “environment_id” to “resource” and “environment” (serialized) in the output of `confluent billing cost list`
- Rename “Broker ID” to “Broker” (human) and “broker_id” to “broker” (serialized) in the output of `confluent broker task list`
- Rename “Partition ID”, “Cluster ID” and “Leader ID” to “ID”, “Cluster” and “Leader” (human) and “partition_id”, “cluster_id” and “leader_id” to “id”, “cluster” and “leader” (serialized) in the output of `confluent kafka partition [describe | list]`
- Rename “Private Link Attachment ID” to “Private Link Attachment” (human) and “private_link_attachment_id” to “private_link_attachment” (serialized) in the output of `confluent network private-link attachment connection` commands
- Rename “Task ID” to “Task” (human) and “task_id” to “task” (serialized) in the output of `confluent connect cluster describe`
- Rename “Plugin ID” and “Version ID” to “ID” and “Version” (human) and “plugin_id”  and “version_id” to “plugin”  and “version” (serialized) in the output of `confluent flink artifact` commands
- Rename “Partition ID” to “Partition” (human) and “partition_id” to “partition” (serialized) in the output of `confluent kafka partition reassignment list`
- Rename “ingress” and “egress” to “ingress_limit” and “egress_limit” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka cluster` commands
- Rename “kafka_cluster_id” to “kafka_cluster” in the serialized output of `confluent iam acl` commands
- Rename “cluster_id” to “cluster” in the serialized output of `confluent broker task list`
- Rename “cluster_id” and “consumer_group_id” to “cluster” and “consumer_group” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka consumer group [describe | list]`
- Rename “cluster_id”, “consumer_group_id”, “consumer_id”, “instance_id”, “client_id”, and “partition_id” to “cluster”, “consumer_group”, “consumer”, “instance”, “client”, and “partition” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka consumer group lag [describe | list]`
- Rename “owner_id” and “resource_id” to “owner” and “resource” in the serialized output of `confluent api-key [describe | list]`
- Rename “cluster_id”, “environment_id”, and “service_account_id” to “cluster”, “environment”, and “service_account” in the serialized output of `confluent audit-log describe`
- Rename “cluster_id”, “environment_id”, and “service_account_id” to “cluster”, “environment”, and “service_account” in the serialized output of `confluent connect event describe`
- Rename “source_cluster_id”, “destination_cluster_id”, and “remote_cluster_id” to “source_cluster”, “destination_cluster”, and “remote_cluster” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka link [describe | list]`
- Rename “cluster_id”, “consumer_group_id”, “max_lag_consumer_id”, “max_lag_instance_id”, “max_lag_client_id”, and “max_lag_partition_id” to “cluster”, “consumer_group”, “max_lag_consumer”, “max_lag_instance”, “max_lag_client”, and “max_lag_partition” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka consumer group lag summarize`
- Rename “cluster_id” to “cluster” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka partition [describe | list]`
- Rename “cluster_id”, “partition_id”, and “broker_id” to “cluster”, “partition”, and “broker” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka replica list`
- Rename “cluster_id” to “cluster” in the serialized output of `confluent schema-registry cluster describe`
- Rename “cluster_id” to “cluster” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka partition reassignment list`
- Rename “environment_id” to “environment” in the serialized output of `confluent network` commands
- Rename “plugin_name” and “plugin_id” to “name” and “id” in the serialized output of `confluent plugin list`
- Rename “consumer_group_id”, “consumer_id”, “instance_id”, and “client_id” to “consumer_group”, “consumer”, “instance”, and “client” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka consumer list`
- The field “Network Zonal Subdomains” (human) and “network_zonal_subdomains” (serialized) in the output of `confluent stream-share consumer redeem` and `confluent stream-share consumer share describe` is now a map
- The field “subtask_statuses” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka broker task list` is now a map
- The field “config” in the serialized output of `confluent schema-registry exporter describe` is now a map
- The field “kms_properties” in the serialized output of `confluent schema-registry kek` commands is now a map
- The field `principals` in the serialized output of `confluent kafka quota` commands is now an array
- The field “network_zones” in the serialized output of  `confluent stream-share consumer redeem` and `confluent stream-share consumer share describe` is now an array
- The field “Error Trace” (human) and “error_trace” (serialized) in the output of `confluent schema-registry exporter status describe` is now omitted when it is empty
- The field “topic_count” in the serialized output of `confluent kafka cluster describe` is now omitted when it is empty
- Remove unused “disable_updates”, “anonymous_id”, “no_browser”, and “ver” configuration fields
- Rename the Windows-only configuration field “update_plugins_once” to “update_plugins_once_windows”
- Legacy on-premises contexts are no longer supported; the Certificate Authority path must now be provided by flag or environment variable
- The following deprecated environment variables are no longer supported: “CCLOUD_EMAIL”, “CCLOUD_PASSWORD”, “CONFLUENT_USERNAME”, “CONFLUENT_PASSWORD”, “CONFLUENT_MDS_URL”, and “CONFLUENT_CA_CERT_PATH”
- Rename the `CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CA_CERT_PATH` environment variable to `CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CERTIFICATE_AUTHORITY_PATH`
- `confluent logout` now revokes the refresh token when logging out of Confluent Cloud
- Saved credentials will no longer be read from the `.netrc` file
- CLI text highlighting is now enabled by default for new users
- All confirmation prompts for resource `delete` and `undelete` commands are now yes/no prompts
- The `confluent login` command will no longer automatically log in using saved credentials in the keychain or configuration file
- On-premises login with `confluent login` will now print the confirmation code to the terminal and ask the user to confirm before opening a browser

### New Features

- Add new `confluent kafka topic describe` Confluent Cloud command in place of the renamed existing command
- Add new `confluent kafka replica list` on-premises command in place of the renamed existing command
- Add new `confluent kafka broker describe` on-premises command in place of the renamed existing command
- Add new `confluent local kafka broker describe` command in place of the renamed existing command
- Add `confluent local kafka topic configuration list`
- Add `confluent plugin uninstall`
- Add `confluent kafka topic configuration list` for on-premises
- Add `confluent kafka cluster configuration list` for on-premises
- Add `confluent kafka cluster configuration update` for on-premises
- Add the “Internal” (human) and “internal” (serialized) field to the output of `confluent kafka topic describe` (for on-premises) and `confluent local kafka topic describe`
- Add new “Name” (human) and “name” (serialized) field to the output of `confluent plugin search` in place of the renamed existing field

### Bug Fixes

- Improve error message in `confluent flink statement list` when compute pool cannot be found

## [7/9/2024] Confluent CLI v3.65.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent flink connectivity-type use` to set the Flink connectivity type

### Bug Fixes

- The `USE <catalog>.<database>` command in `confluent flink shell` previously set an incorrect key/value pair in the config (`catalog: database`); now it sets the proper key/value pairs (`sql.current-catalog: catalog, sql.current-database: database`)

## [6/25/2024] Confluent CLI v3.64.3 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fix an issue preventing on-premises users from refreshing SSO logins more than once

## [6/21/2024] Confluent CLI v3.64.2 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fix missing `--headers` flag error in `confluent local kafka topic produce`

## [6/13/2024] Confluent CLI v3.64.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Loosen Linux glibc version restriction applied in last release
- Fix static linking error on Windows
- Allow `confluent schema-registry dek create` to be called without specifying `--algorithm`

## [6/10/2024] Confluent CLI v3.64.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] Add `confluent ai`, an interactive AI assistant that can answer questions about Confluent Cloud

## [6/3/2024] Confluent CLI v3.63.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--runtime-language` to `confluent flink artifact create` for specifying the language runtime for Flink user-defined functions (UDFs)

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug requiring an on-premises login to use `confluent kafka` commands which do not necessarily require a login
- Show the correct expiration time in the “Expires At” field of `confluent iam user describe` on-premises

## [5/30/2024] Confluent CLI v3.62.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--headers` to `confluent kafka topic produce` for specifying headers manually when producing messages
- Support on-premises SSO authentication with `confluent login`
- Add a new on-premises `confluent iam user describe` to display username and authentication token

### Bug Fixes

- Trim custom Kafka REST `--url` values properly

## [5/16/2024] Confluent CLI v3.61.1 Release Notes

### Bug Fixes

- Fix an issue in `confluent plugin install` that prevented users from installing go plugins

## [5/9/2024] Confluent CLI v3.61.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support passing offsets to `confluent connect cluster create` as part of the configuration file
- Support creating Azure Egress Private Link endpoints in `confluent network access-point private-link egress-endpoint create`
- Output the associated Azure Private Endpoint ID, Private Endpoint domain, and Private Endpoint IP address in `confluent network access-point private-link egress-endpoint describe` and `confluent network access-point private-link egress-endpoint list`
- Output the associated Azure subscription in `confluent network gateway describe` and `confluent network gateway list`
- Print a warning when a Confluent Cloud Kafka REST URL is passed to Confluent Platform Kafka REST

### Bug Fixes

- Prevent `confluent connect offset delete`, `confluent connect offset update`, and `confluent connect offset status describe` from crashing

## [5/2/2024] Confluent CLI v3.60.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support “=” in the keys and values of SET commands in `confluent flink shell`
- Add a warning including the statement retention time in `confluent flink compute-pool delete`

## [4/25/2024] Confluent CLI v3.59.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add new “SET” option “client.output-format” to `confluent flink shell` supporting plain text mode

## [4/18/2024] Confluent CLI v3.58.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “Properties” and “Principal” fields to `confluent flink statement describe`

### Bug Fixes

- [Early Access] Exclude Flink UDF artifacts in `confluent connect custom-plugin list`

## [4/11/2024] Confluent CLI v3.57.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support creating Azure Private Link attachments in `confluent network private-link attachment create`
- Output the associated Azure Private Link Service alias and ID in `confluent network private-link attachment describe` and `confluent network private-link attachment list`
- Support creating Azure Private Link attachment connections with `confluent network private-link attachment connection create`
- Output the associated Azure Private Link Service alias and ID in `confluent network private-link attachment connection describe` and `confluent network private-link attachment connection list`
- Add `confluent network link` commands for managing network link resources in Confluent Cloud
- Add `confluent network region` command to list cloud provider regions for networking

## [4/4/2024] Confluent CLI v3.56.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] Manage connector offsets with `confluent connect offset`
- `confluent connect plugin install` no longer requires users to log in

## [3/29/2024] Confluent CLI v3.55.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent network access-point private-link egress-endpoint` commands for managing Private Link egress endpoints in Confluent Cloud
- Add `confluent network dns record` commands for managing DNS records in Confluent Cloud
- Add `confluent network gateway` commands for managing gateways in Confluent Cloud
- Improve error message when running `confluent kafka consumer group lag` commands without a dedicated Kafka cluster
- [Early Access] `confluent flink shell` now uses the `upsertColumns` property when it’s available

## [3/14/2024] Confluent CLI v3.54.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent connect custom-plugin create --cloud`
- Add `confluent connect custom-plugin list --cloud`

## [3/7/2024] Confluent CLI v3.53.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] Support `QUIT` statement in `confluent flink shell`

### Bug Fixes

- [Early Access] Support multibyte characters in the `USE` statement in `confluent flink shell`
- Prevent `confluent context update --kafka-cluster` from crashing

## [3/4/2024] Confluent CLI v3.52.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] `confluent flink shell` supports new key bindings: “Ctrl-D” deletes characters and only closes if the buffer is empty, “Alt-D” deletes words, “Alt-L” lowercases words, and “Alt-U” uppercases words
- Add `confluent network dns forwarder` commands for managing DNS forwarders in Confluent Cloud
- Add “Gateway” field to `confluent network list` and `confluent network describe`

### Bug Fixes

- [Early Access] Prevent `confluent flink shell` from crashing if statements are executed too quickly
- [Early Access] Improve error message in `confluent flink artifact create` when uploading to a third-party API fails
- Improve error message in `confluent connect custom-plugin create` when uploading to a third-party API fails

## [2/26/2024] Confluent CLI v3.51.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] Support `Ctrl + Left`, `Ctrl + Right` and `Ctrl + Backspace` shortcuts on Windows in `confluent flink shell`
- [Early Access] Support escaped characters for catalogs and databases set with “USE” in `confluent flink shell`
- [Early Access] Down arrow can be used to enter the completion list in `confluent flink shell`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a panic in `confluent api-key use`
- Fix an issue in `confluent kafka cluster configuration update --config` that could cause a duplicate key error
- Fix a bug causing `confluent kafka link create` and `confluent kafka link configuration update` to fail when the cluster link configuration “ssl.truststore.certificates” contains an explicit “n” character
- [Early Access] Improve text visibility in the interactive output of `confluent flink shell`
- [Early Access] Remove `--flink-region` flag from `confluent iam rbac role-binding` commands

## [2/16/2024] Confluent CLI v3.50.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add “Idle Since” column to `confluent network` commands
- Allow `confluent local service` commands to work with Java versions later than version 12

### Bug Fixes

- Avoid crash when reading configuration files on Windows
- [Early Access] Fix crash when running `confluent flink shell` on Windows
- [Early Access] Allow pending statements to be cancelled in `confluent flink shell`
- Allow Confluent Platform users to use `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume` without logging in
- No longer require `--ca-location` for on-premises `confluent kafka topic produce`

## [2/13/2024] Confluent CLI v3.49.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Role bindings for users in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list` will now show the user’s name
- [Early Access] Add `confluent flink artifact` lifecycle management commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug preventing role bindings with an SSO group mapping principal from displaying in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`
- Fix a bug causing an incorrect error message to be displayed in `confluent iam rbac role-binding create` and `confluent iam rbac role-binding delete` when the principal is an SSO group mapping
- [Early Access] Fix crashes when using multi-byte characters in `confluent flink shell`

## [1/18/2024] Confluent CLI v3.48.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent kafka link task list` for listing cluster link task information for Confluent Cloud and on-premises
- Add `confluent kafka mirror state-transition-error list` for listing cluster linking mirror state transition errors
- Add `--governance-package` flag to `confluent environment create` and `confluent environment update`
- Add “Stream Governance Package” field to `confluent environment` commands
- Add `--output` flag to `confluent secret file rotate` and `confluent secret master-key generate`

## [1/11/2024] Confluent CLI v3.47.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Use service account resource IDs instead of integer IDs in `confluent ksql cluster configure-acls`
- Added `confluent schema-registry dek` commands for Schema Registry Data Encryption Key (DEK) management
- Added `confluent schema-registry kek` commands for Schema Registry Key Encryption Key (KEK) management
- Autocomplete `confluent ksql cluster create --credential-identity`
- Add `--context` and `--output` to `confluent connect custom-plugin create`
- [Early Access] Add statement name to title of interactive results view in `confluent flink shell`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix “no such file or directory” error when running a serialized consumer before producer

## [1/4/2024] Confluent CLI v3.46.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent kafka mirror reverse-and-start`
- Add `confluent kafka mirror reverse-and-pause`

## [12/15/2023] Confluent CLI v3.45.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] Create Flink API keys with `confluent api-key create --resource flink --cloud <cloud> --region <region>`
- [Early Access] Full Flink SQL autocomplete for `confluent flink shell`
- [Early Access] Add “Environment” field to the output of the `confluent flink compute-pool` commands
- [Early Access] Support `Alt + Enter` in `confluent flink shell` to trigger statement submission without needing to suffix the statement with a semicolon
- [Early Access] Support `Alt + Backspace` in `confluent flink shell` to delete the previous word
- Add `confluent network` commands for managing networking resources in Confluent Cloud
- Add the `--network` flag to `confluent kafka cluster create`, `confluent kafka cluster describe`, and `confluent kafka cluster list` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fix panic in `confluent schema-registry schema describe`

## [12/6/2023] Confluent CLI v3.44.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- [Early Access] Add “Cloud” to the output of the confluent flink compute-pool commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a `401 Unauthorized` bug for Confluent Platform `confluent schema-registry` commands
- Fix “REQUIRED” annotations and logic in `confluent shell`

## [12/4/2023] Confluent CLI v3.43.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add GCP support in `confluent byok` commands for customer-managed keys in Confluent Cloud
- Removed `--encryption-key` in `confluent kafka cluster create` in favor of the `--byok` flag, which can be used to pass the ID of a customer-managed key when creating BYOK Kafka clusters in Confluent Cloud
- [Limited Availability] Added `confluent iam ip-group` and `confluent iam ip-filter` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fixed a panic in `confluent kafka topic consume` when user is not logged in

## [11/16/2023] Confluent CLI v3.42.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Display replication factor and partition count in `confluent kafka topic list`
- Users can run `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume` when not logged in to Confluent Cloud by passing in `--bootstrap`, `--api-key` and `--api-secret`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix panic in `confluent kafka topic produce`

## [11/9/2023] Confluent CLI v3.41.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Multiline support for `confluent feedback`

### Bug Fixes

- Resolved the “no such host” error when running `confluent local kafka start` with the latest version of Docker
- Fix panic during HTTP retry

## [11/2/2023] Confluent CLI v3.40.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support `--value-format double` in `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume`

### Bug Fixes

- Refresh authentication token on HTTP retry, if needed

## [10/19/2023] Confluent CLI v3.39.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- General updates and improvements

## [10/12/2023] Confluent CLI v3.38.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--print-offset` to `confluent kafka topic consume` for printing the partition number and offset of each message

## [10/5/2023] Confluent CLI v3.37.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Optionally enable text highlighting with `confluent configuration update enable_color true`
- Improve `confluent asyncapi import` output
- Improve `confluent kafka topic describe` output for Confluent Platform

### Bug Fixes

- Resolve an issue causing `confluent kafka topic produce` to fail when using schema-based key formats with some delimiter choices

## [9/28/2023] Confluent CLI v3.36.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent kafka consumer group lag` commands

## [9/25/2023] Confluent CLI v3.35.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent kafka consumer group describe`
- Add `confluent kafka consumer group list`
- Add `confluent kafka consumer list`

### Bug Fixes

- Correctly format timestamps in YAML output

## [9/21/2023] Confluent CLI v3.34.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- If available, display RBAC role binding ID in `confluent iam rbac role-binding` commands
- Add `confluent kafka partition describe` and `confluent kafka partition list` cloud commands

### Bug Fixes

- Add the missing `--output` flag to `confluent kafka link describe` and remove the unused `--force` flag
- Verify Java version at the beginning when running `confluent local services start`

## [9/14/2023] Confluent CLI v3.33.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Added `confluent connect custom-plugin` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug in context decryption after running `confluent context update --name`
- Fix a bug where custom connectors no longer require “connector.class” in `confluent connect cluster create`
- Fix a panic that occurs when using `confluent kafka topic consume --key-format` with a schema-based key format

## [9/7/2023] Confluent CLI v3.32.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--jit-enabled` to allow customer to toggle the JUST-IN-TIME for SSO enabled organization
- Add `--brokers` flag in `confluent local kafka start` to allow starting a multi-broker Confluent Local instance
- Add `confluent local kafka broker` command
- Add `confluent local kafka cluster configuration` command

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a bug in `confluent iam user invitation list` where only the first 100 results were listed
- Fix an issue causing `confluent kafka topic consume` to deserialize integers to incorrect values when using `--key-format integer` or `value-format integer`
- Resolve a panic that could occur in `confluent kafka topic consume` when using `--key-format integer` and `--print-key`
- `--parse-key` must now be specified when using `confluent kafka topic produce --key-format`

## [9/5/2023] Confluent CLI v3.31.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent iam service-account use` and `confluent iam service-account unset`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix an incorrect URL causing `confluent plugin search` and `confluent plugin install` to fail

## [8/24/2023] Confluent CLI v3.30.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add support for multiple arguments to `delete` commands

### Bug Fixes

- Resolve a panic in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`
- After session has timed out, correctly refresh credentials with environment variables or credentials saved with `confluent login --save`

## [8/17/2023] Confluent CLI v3.29.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--all` to `confluent kafka acl list` to include deleted ACLs whose principals are integer IDs
- Add `confluent configuration` commands for configuration file management
- Add `confluent schema-registry config delete` command

### Bug Fixes

- Fix a flaky panic that occurred when pressing Ctrl-C in `confluent kafka topic produce`
- Fix a panic that occurred when `/dev/tty` was inaccessible in `confluent flink shell`

## [8/11/2023] Confluent CLI v3.28.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- `confluent local services` commands were dropped from v3.16.0 to v3.26.0, but are back as of v3.27.0 and will be supported until the next major version release (v4.0.0). These will be replaced by faster comparable commands with the syntax `confluent local <name-of-service>`. The first of these, `confluent local kafka`, is already present in the CLI.
- Add support for both strings and files for the `--config` flag, in all relevant `confluent kafka` and `confluent schema-registry` commands
- Support `--key-format integer` and `--value-format integer` in `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume`

### Bug Fixes

- Resolve a panic that can happen when exiting `confluent kafka topic produce` with Ctrl-C on Windows
- `confluent kafka topic consume --group` will start consuming from the offset that it exited with last time
- Prevent errors for certain statuses in `confluent kafka mirror describe` and `confluent kafka mirror list`

## [8/7/2023] Confluent CLI v3.27.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support `--protocol PLAINTEXT` in `confluent kafka topic consume`
- Enable Schema Registry to be used without authentication on-premises, for the purpose of demos

### Bug Fixes

- Fix authentication issue in `confluent kafka topic [produce | consume]` on Windows
- Fix panic in `confluent api-key store --resource`
- Prevent “flag accessed but not defined” error in `confluent schema-registry` commands

## [8/3/2023] Confluent CLI v3.26.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `--key-format`, `--key-schema`, and `--key-references` to `kafka topic produce`
- Add `--key-format` to `kafka topic consume`
- Suggest updating with `brew upgrade` if installed with Homebrew

## [7/27/2023] Confluent CLI v3.25.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent feedback` for user-submitted feedback
- When authenticated with Confluent Cloud, no longer require an API key for Schema Registry operations
- Add `confluent kafka cluster configuration` commands for managing dedicated cluster configurations

### Bug Fixes

- Correctly display Confluent Platform mirror topics in `confluent kafka link list --include-topics`
- Fix `confluent asyncapi import` and `confluent asyncapi export` to follow AsyncAPI documentation for Kafka channel bindings, with explicit fields for `bindingVersion`, `partitions`, and `topicConfiguration`
- Improve error message when no API secret is provided to `confluent kafka client-config create`

## [7/21/2023] Confluent CLI v3.24.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Allow changing default port numbers in `confluent local kafka start` with the `--kafka-rest-port` and `--plaintext-port` flags
- Print progress while downloading Docker image in `confluent local kafka start`
- Print the ports that Confluent Local is using when running `confluent local kafka start`
- Autocomplete flags in `confluent kafka client-config create` commands
- Add autocompletion to `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume`
- List and install plugins from the official Confluent CLI plugin repository with `confluent plugin search` and `confluent plugin install`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix autocompletion of `--availability` and `--type` flags in `confluent kafka cluster create`

## [7/14/2023] Confluent CLI v3.23.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add a suggestion to use `confluent kafka cluster` when users run the on-premises `confluent cluster` command while logged in to Confluent Cloud
- Support passing schema IDs to the `--schema` flag in `confluent kafka topic produce`

## [7/13/2023] Confluent CLI v3.22.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Improve the error message when a user runs an on-premises command while logged into Confluent Cloud
- Bidirectional link support for `confluent kafka link`
- No longer require passing the `--resource` flag to `confluent api-key use`

### Bug Fixes

- Prevent a panic when passing a non-existent Kafka cluster to `confluent api-key store --resource`
- Fix “type” output in `confluent schema-registry schema describe` and properly format Avro schemas
- Print an error message when `confluent local kafka start` is run from an AMD64 binary on an ARM64 machine

## [7/6/2023] Confluent CLI v3.21.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent pipeline create --use-schema-registry`, and by default do not add Schema Registry to pipelines

### Bug Fixes

- Fix misleading error messages in `confluent kafka topic consume`

## [6/29/2023] Confluent CLI v3.20.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Autocompletion for `confluent api-key create --resource`
- Add `confluent kafka link describe`

### Bug Fixes

- Fixes the 404 error when creating a role binding attached to an identity pool

## [6/23/2023] Confluent CLI v3.19.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Encrypt API key pair in context credentials

### Bug Fixes

- Fix permission issue while running `confluent update` in Docker image

## [6/15/2023] Confluent CLI v3.18.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent connect plugin install` command to install Connect plugins for Confluent Platform
- Support calling `confluent environment describe` without arguments
- Autocomplete arguments in `confluent service-quota list`

### Bug Fixes

- Prevent panic while retrieving Schema Registry cluster information

## [6/8/2023] Confluent CLI v3.17.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Add `confluent billing cost list`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix `confluent update` checksum validation for Alpine Linux

## [6/2/2023] Confluent CLI v3.16.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Added new Docker-based `confluent local` commands for improved local testing of Confluent Platform

### Bug Fixes

- Removed unused `--output` flag in `confluent kafka topic consume`

## [5/25/2023] Confluent CLI v3.15.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Support topic prefixes ending with a wildcard (\*) in `confluent asyncapi export --topics`
- Update “num.partitions” for a Kafka topic with `confluent kafka topic update --config`

## [5/18/2023] Confluent CLI v3.14.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Publish with Homebrew
- Add `--metadata` and `--ruleset` to `confluent schema-registry schema create`
- Add `--compatibility-group`, `--metadata-defaults`, `--metadata-overrides`, `--ruleset-defaults`, and `--ruleset-overrides` to `confluent schema-registry subject update`

### Bug Fixes

- Fix decryption error when running non-authenticated commands
- Correctly display mirror topics in `confluent kafka link list --include-topics`

## [5/12/2023] Confluent CLI v3.13.0 Release Notes

### New Features

- Publish linux/arm64 Docker image

### Bug Fixes

- Allow plugins whose filepath starts with `~` to run
- Fix service account error in `confluent api-key create` when audit logs are disabled

## [5/4/2023] Confluent CLI v3.12.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `--topics` flag to `confluent asyncapi export` to only export specified topics

## [4/28/2023] Confluent CLI v3.11.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add a new `--all` flag to `confluent schema-registry schema list` to include soft-deleted schemas in the output

**Bug Fixes**
: - Schemas can now be permanently deleted with `confluent schema-registry schema delete` when using `--version all`

## [4/13/2023] Confluent CLI v3.10.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add argument autocompletion for `confluent iam`, `confluent kafka`, and `confluent pipeline` commands
  - Support for topic partition count in `confluent asyncapi export`
  - Add `--context` flag to all `confluent environment` subcommands

**Bug Fixes**
: - Display a warning instead of an error if the topic count is not found in `confluent kafka cluster describe`
  - Allow more than 10 KSQL clusters to be listed in `confluent ksql cluster list`

## [4/7/2023] Confluent CLI v3.9.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add argument autocompletion for `confluent api-key describe`
  - Add support for autocompleting multiple arguments for `confluent connect cluster pause` and `confluent connect cluster resume`
  - Add `--ksql-cluster` and `--update-schema-registry` to `confluent pipeline update`

## [3/31/2023] Confluent CLI v3.8.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent schema-registry region list` command

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix a bug on Windows preventing decryption of authentication tokens
  - Fix `confluent update` for Windows

## [3/30/2023] Confluent CLI v3.7.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent asyncapi import` command
  - Add suggestions to check CLI’s access to `/etc` when encryption fails
  - Improve documentation for `confluent iam acl` commands

**Bug Fixes**
: - Correct filename autocompletion for `avsc` files

## [3/23/2023] Confluent CLI v3.6.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - When specifying a file with a flag, auto-complete according to file extension

**Bug Fixes**
: - Prevent panics in `confluent kafka cluster use` and `confluent api-key` commands for users without an environment
  - Fixed a decryption error when running `confluent context list` with old contexts from `~/.confluent/config.json`

## [3/17/2023] Confluent CLI v3.5.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Prevent a panic that could occur in various `confluent api-key` commands

## [3/16/2023] Confluent CLI v3.5.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix an issue where `confluent schema-registry schema delete --permanent` prevents permanent deletion of schema versions
  - Allow `confluent kafka topic produce` to run when using a context created with `confluent context create`
  - Ignore Protobuf schemas in `confluent asyncapi export`
  - Correctly propagate backend errors in `confluent kafka quota list`
  - Allow primitive Avro schemas in `confluent asyncapi export`

## [3/7/2023] Confluent CLI v3.5.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent organization describe`, `list`, and `update`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Disable plugins by default on Windows, but allow manual re-enablement in `~/.confluent/config.json`
  - Fix `cipher: message authentication failed` issue on Alpine image

## [3/2/2023] Confluent CLI v3.4.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Format JSON output in `confluent schema-registry schema describe`
  - Add the `--use` flag to `confluent api-key create` to select an API key after it has been created
  - Add `jq` to Docker image
  - Update description of `confluent login --save` to mention that credentials will also be saved to keychain on macOS
  - Improve error messages for when a Kafka cluster is deleted from outside of the CLI
  - Display a warning message when a command requires an active environment, but no environment is selected

**Bug Fixes**
: - Ignore the “Current” column when sorting the output of `list` commands
  - Prevent empty flag values from being passed in `confluent price list`
  - Validate nonce length to avoid a panic while encrypting or decrypting login credentials
  - Prevent a panic that could occur when using commands with the `--environment` flag
  - Fix examples for on-prem `confluent kafka acl create`
  - Use `$PATHEXT` to correctly determine if a plugin is executable on Windows

## [2/23/2023] Confluent CLI v3.3.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent byok` (Bring Your Own Key) commands for customer-managed keys in Confluent Cloud

**Bug Fixes**
: - Resolve a panic that could occur in `confluent api-key list`

## [2/21/2023] Confluent CLI v3.2.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix a panic that could occur in `confluent asyncapi export` when using protobuf schemas
  - Fix an issue preventing users from successfully using `confluent login` in a Docker container
  - Fix a panic that could occur in `confluent schema-registry cluster describe`
  - Update ingress/egress limits to correct values in `confluent kafka cluster describe`

## [2/17/2023] Confluent CLI v3.2.0 Release Notes

**Breaking Changes**
: - Confluent Cloud sign-up in the CLI has been removed. `confluent cloud-signup` now opens the sign-up page in the user’s browser

**New Features**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fixed an issue in `confluent api-key list`. Users with DeveloperRead/Write/Manage roles can list API keys to which they have access.
  - The Kafka cluster name is not updated when it’s not specified in `confluent kafka cluster update`

## [2/9/2023] Confluent CLI v3.1.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix panic in `confluent kafka link list`
  - Fix inefficiencies while searching `$PATH` for plugins
  - Standardize flag value format across all examples

## [2/3/2023] Confluent CLI v3.1.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - `confluent plugin list` will now display an error if plugins are disabled
  - Add informative examples of the `--inclusive` flag in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix an issue causing `confluent iam rbac role-binding create` to display an error despite successfully creating the role-binding when the principal is a service account

## [1/31/2023] Confluent CLI v3.0.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix a bug causing the “Activation Privilege” field to always show “false” in the output of `confluent pipeline` commands
  - Fix issues in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list` which could cause a “400 Bad Request” error when listing role bindings for a service account
  - Various updates to the formatting of error messages and examples

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## [1/25/2023] Confluent CLI v3.0.0 Release Notes

Confluent CLI is now [source-available](https://github.com/confluentinc/cli) under the Confluent Community License.
For more details, check out the [Announcing the Source Available Confluent CLI](https://www.confluent.io/blog/announcing-the-source-available-confluent-cli/)
blog post.

**Breaking Changes**
: - Default to HTTPS for on-prem login with `confluent login`
  - Require acknowledgment before deleting any resource, and use `--force` flag to skip acknowledgment
  - Use correct and consistent JSON and YAML formatting across all commands
  - Remove leading “v” from archive names, so the format matches binary names
  - Place asterisk in “Current” column in `confluent api-key list`, `confluent environment list`, and `confluent kafka list`
  - Delete `confluent ksql app` commands in favor of `confluent ksql cluster` commands
  - In `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`, combine “Service Name” and “Pool Name” into “Name”
  - In `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`, require the `--inclusive` flag to list role bindings in nested scopes
  - Move Connect cluster management commands under `confluent connect cluster`
  - Prevent using numeric IDs for `confluent kafka acl` commands
  - Print a table instead of a list in `confluent schema-registry compatibility validate` and `confluent schema-registry config describe`
  - Remove the “KAPI” field, “API Endpoint” field, and the corresponding `--all` flag from `confluent kafka cluster describe`
  - Remove shorthand flags: `-D`, `-P`,  `-r`, `-S`, and `-V`
  - Rename “Exporter” to “exporter” in serialized output for `confluent schema-registry exporter list`
  - Rename “task” to “tasks” in `confluent connect cluster describe`
  - Rename `--current-env` to `--current-environment`
  - Rename `--no-auth` to `--no-authentication`
  - Rename `--operation` to `--operations` where appropriate
  - Rename `--refs` to `--references`
  - Rename `--show-refs` to `--show-references`
  - Rename `--sr-apikey` and `--sr-api-key` to `--schema-registry-api-key`
  - Rename `--sr-apisecret` and `--sr-api-secret` to `--schema-registry-api-secret`
  - Rename `--sr-endpoint` to `--schema-registry-endpoint`
  - Rename `confluent audit-log migrate config` to `confluent audit-log config migrate`
  - Rename `confluent kafka link describe` to `confluent kafka link configuration list`
  - Rename `confluent kafka partition get-reassignments` to `confluent kafka partition reassigments list`
  - Rename values for `confluent price list --cluster-type`
  - Replace all instances of “First Name” and “Last Name” with “Full Name”
  - Require `--environment` in `confluent schema-registry cluster delete`

**New Features**
: - Use Kafka REST for all `confluent kafka` commands
  - Remove login requirement for `confluent secret` commands
  - Add “Read Only” column to `confluent kafka topic describe`
  - Add detailed Kafka REST examples for `confluent kafka acl` commands

## [5/17/2023] Confluent CLI v2.38.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

## [1/12/2023] Confluent CLI v2.38.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `--activation-privilege` flag to `confluent pipeline update`
  - Add “Secret Names” field to `confluent pipeline` commands
  - Improve examples for `confluent iam rbac role-binding create`

## [12/15/2022] Confluent CLI v2.37.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `--ksql-cluster` flag in `confluent iam role-binding` and `confluent iam role`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Resolve panic when logging in to Confluent Cloud without a valid role binding or environment
  - Print missing “KafkaRestProduce” metric in `confluent price list`

## [12/8/2022] Confluent CLI v2.36.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `--schema-registry-cluster-id` to `confluent iam rbac role-binding` commands
  - Add “Free Schemas Limit” field to `confluent schema-registry cluster describe`

## [12/2/2022] Confluent CLI v2.35.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add a `disable_feature_flags` option to the configuration file

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix an issue in `confluent asyncapi export` which could cause repeated topic descriptions

## [11/29/2022] Confluent CLI v2.34.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add warning about required privileges to `confluent ksql cluster create`
  - Update on-prem examples for `confluent kafka topic` commands

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix a bug causing repeated tags in `confluent asyncapi export`
  - Fix bug in `confluent iam rbac role-binding create` that could prevent creation when using the `--resource` flag
  - Fix empty list bug in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list` when using the `--resource` flag

## [11/17/2022] Confluent CLI v2.33.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Export AsyncAPI specification files with `confluent asyncapi export`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Show logical KSQL cluster IDs in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`
  - Fix HTTP status code error in `confluent ksql cluster configure-acls`
  - Fix 0 partition error in `confluent kafka topic create`

## [11/15/2022] Confluent CLI v2.32.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix replication factor error in `confluent kafka topic create`
  - Print mirror topic name instead of source topic name in `confluent kafka mirror create`

## [11/3/2022] Confluent CLI v2.32.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Improve error messages when users provide an incorrectly formatted Kafka cluster ID

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix CLI panic when setting environment in configuration

## [10/27/2022] Confluent CLI v2.31.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Allow multiple connectors to be paused and resumed at once
  - Allow all flags accepting lists to accept comma-separated lists of strings
  - Add `--environment` flag to `confluent api-key list`
  - Verify that a cluster exists before unregistering it with `confluent cluster unregister`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Only check for plugins in top-level directories within `$PATH`
  - Fix index out of range error in `confluent ksql cluster configure-acls`
  - Allow users with no role bindings to log in
  - Fix race condition during in-browser SSO login
  - Allow password prompt to be interrupted with Ctrl+C
  - Fix misleading error message in `confluent api-key store`

## [10/21/2022] Confluent CLI v2.30.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix an app notarization issue affecting Darwin builds

## [10/21/2022] Confluent CLI v2.30.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent schema-registry schema list`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix an issue preventing `confluent kafka cluster describe` from being called on a provisioning cluster
  - Improve error messaging in `confluent kafka topic` and `confluent kafka acl` commands
  - Fix panic that could occur in some `confluent kafka` commands

## [10/13/2022] Confluent CLI v2.29.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Show more detailed error message in `confluent api-key use`

## [5/3/2023] Confluent CLI v2.28.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

## [10/6/2022] Confluent CLI v2.28.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix “unspecified resource type” error when describing or deleting Kafka ACLs

## [10/3/2022] Confluent CLI v2.28.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - General updates and improvements

## [9/29/2022] Confluent CLI v2.27.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Confluent CLI is now available for Linux and Alpine Linux on ARM64 architecture
  - Added `Topic Count` field in `confluent kafka cluster describe` and `confluent kafka cluster update`

**Bug Fixes**
: - The `Error` field in `confluent kafka link list` will now be empty instead of printing `NO_ERROR` when the link is not in an error state

## [9/22/2022] Confluent CLI v2.26.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Display `State`, `Error` and `Error Message` in `confluent kafka link list`
  - Show more detailed error messages for Confluent Cloud API routes

## [9/13/2022] Confluent CLI v2.25.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent environment describe`
  - Add `confluent api-key describe`
  - The `-vvv` flag now notifies the user that `$PATH` is recursively searched for plugins

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix the example for `confluent kafka acl create`
  - Allow deletion of ksqlDB clusters that failed to provision

#### NOTE
The new CLI plugins functionality, introduced in v2.24.0, searches your
entire `$PATH` and can cause slow response time.

If you are experiencing CLI commands hanging, set the following in the
`~/.confluent/config.json` file to disable the plugins:

```yaml
"disable_plugins": true
```

## [8/22/2022] Confluent CLI v2.24.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix 404 error for `kafka acl` commands
  - Fix non-root user in Docker image

## [8/21/2022] Confluent CLI v2.24.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - `--unsafe-trace` works with every command that uses HTTP
  - Fix panic that could occur when user was unauthenticated

## [8/18/2022] Confluent CLI v2.24.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Added plugin framework and `confluent plugin list` command
  - Signed Windows binaries
  - Add non-root user to Dockerfile
  - Added examples for `confluent login`
  - Warn when updating read-only topic configurations in `confluent kafka topic update`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Add global `--unsafe-trace` flag
  - Netrc auto-login should use the current context
  - Update command list on login in `confluent shell`
  - Prevent error when fetching Kafka cluster from within an API key context
  - Improve error messages in `confluent kafka topic create`

## [7/28/2022] Confluent CLI v2.23.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Correctly identify Confluent Cloud contexts created with `confluent context create`
  - Fix panic when running `confluent local services connect start` without “plugin.path”

## [7/20/2022] Confluent CLI v2.22.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent iam user update`
  - Add `--package` flag to `confluent schema-registry cluster enable --package`
  - Add `confluent schema-registry cluster upgrade`
  - Improve error message when trying to delete a cluster with active connectors
  - Add “Detailed Processing Log” field to `confluent ksql cluster create` and `confluent ksql cluster describe`
  - Add “Usage” field to `confluent service-quota list`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Properly identify organizations on free trial
  - Fix panic when creating kSQL API keys with `confluent api-key create` exceeds the quota
  - Reformat error message when shrinking a cluster by more than 1 CKU in `confluent kafka cluster update`

## [7/11/2022] Confluent CLI v2.21.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `confluent iam service-account describe`
  - Show more detailed error messages for Confluent Cloud API routes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix issue where organizations are marked as suspended, even after being reactivated

## [6/30/2022] Confluent CLI v2.20.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Support `--dry-run` and `--no-validate` flags for `confluent kafka link create`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Refresh cached Kafka cluster metadata on a weekly basis, instead of infinitely

## [5/8/2023] Confluent CLI v2.19.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

## [6/23/2022] Confluent CLI v2.19.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Improve free remaining credit message in `confluent login` and `confluent cloud-signup`

## [6/16/2022] Confluent CLI v2.18.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Show service account role bindings in `confluent iam role-binding list`
  - Improve examples for `confluent ksql cluster create`
  - Make errors more descriptive in `confluent api-key create`
  - Add “Service Provider Region” and “Package” fields to `confluent schema-registry cluster describe`
  - Add `--source-topic` flag to `confluent kafka mirror topic create`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Allow configuration values to contain commas in `--config`

## Confluent CLI v2.17.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - When running `confluent update`, Alpine Linux users will update to a statically-linked CLI build, while other users will update to a dynamically-linked CLI build. See [Prerequisites](overview.md#cli-requirements) for details.
  - On Alpine Linux, you cannot use `confluent update` to update from Confluent CLI versions earlier than v2.17.2. The `confluent update` command works for v2.17.2 or later. From the older versions, use `curl` or tarball installation to update to the latest version. See [Install Confluent CLI](install.md#cli-install) for details.

## Confluent CLI v2.17.1 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - When running `confluent update`, Alpine Linux users will update to a statically-linked CLI build, while other users will update to a dynamically-linked CLI build.

## Confluent CLI v2.17.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Allow suspended users to connect a credit card and redeem promo codes
  - Add `confluent schema-registry cluster delete`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Improve error message when running `confluent kafka topic produce <topic> --value-format` without a schema path or schema ID specified

## Confluent CLI v2.16.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Retry 5 times if request fails in a subset of commands.
  - Add `--offset` flag to `confluent kafka topic consume` command, allowing users to set an offset from the beginning to consume from
  - Add `--partition` flag to `confluent kafka topic consume` command, allowing users to consume from a certain partition of topic

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix `environment not found in context` error when passing audit log or connect event environment via  `--environment` flag
  - Remove the null byte prepended to messages when running `confluent kafka topic consume` command without a schema

## Confluent CLI v2.15.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Resolve auth token refresh failure for a group of SSO users

## Confluent CLI v2.15.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add the ability to disable cloud features in the event of a security incident
  - Clarify that `confluent login --save` should not be used with SSO login

## Confluent CLI v2.14.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Added `confluent schema-registry exporter` commands for Confluent Platform
  - Return a more specific error message if resource quota limits are exceeded

**Bug Fixes**
: - Ignore redundant `--save` flag at `confluent login` for SSO users

## Confluent CLI v2.13.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix panic on `confluent login` when user context is not defined

## Confluent CLI v2.13.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - If user is already authenticated with a username and password, `confluent login` will prompt for new credentials instead of refreshing the existing session

## Confluent CLI v2.13.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Automatically refresh sessions, keeping users logged in while the CLI is in use
  - Add `--principal` flag to `confluent kafka acl` commands for filtering by service account or user
  - Add `--config`, `--config-file`, and `--schema-id` flags to `confluent kafka topic produce` and `confluent kafka topic consume`
  - Improve documentation for `confluent kafka topic`, `confluent ksql`, and `confluent secret`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix typos in various command descriptions

## Confluent CLI v2.12.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Let `--kafka-cluster-id` imply `--cloud-cluster` in `confluent iam rbac role-binding list`
  - In `confluent schema-registry describe` optionally print the entire schema graph

**Bug Fixes**
: - Add dataplane roles to suggestion message in `iam rbac role describe`
  - Delete temporary schema directories after producing or consuming
  - Remove redundant log messages during API pagination

## Confluent CLI v2.11.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add `--full-header` flag to `confluent kafka topic consume` to print untruncated message headers
  - Add support for source-initiated cluster links in Confluent Cloud

**Bug Fixes**
: - Validate `--geo` flag values when creating Schema Registry clusters
  - Show all available roles with `confluent iam rbac role list`
  - Fix error message when resizing a Kafka cluster

## Confluent CLI v2.10.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Add back `-D` shorthand for `--deleted` flag in `schema-registry subject describe`

## Confluent CLI v2.10.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - New commands for Confluent Cloud: `schema-registry compatibility` and `schema-registry config`
  - New commands for Confluent Platform: `schema-registry compatibility`, `schema-registry config`, `schema-registry subject`, and `schema-registry schema`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix bug where locally stored API key could be cleared
  - Refresh SSO tokens on auto-login

## Confluent CLI v2.9.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Migrated to new APIs that support faster cluster provisioning

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fixed issue that prevented `HTTPS_PROXY` environment variable from having an effect
  - Fixed incorrect options for updating Schema Registry subject modes
  - Improved error messages and help examples

## Confluent CLI v2.8.1 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Show user email, organization name, and organization ID on login

**Bug Fixes**
: - Show the correct email when listing API keys for users with dataplane roles

## Confluent CLI v2.8.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - `confluent service-quota list` command for Confluent Cloud
  - Add schema ID field in `confluent schema-registry schema describe` output

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix parsing of quoted flag values and arguments in `confluent shell`
  - Fix parsing of multi-value flags in `confluent shell`
  - Fix error with protobuf schema references for produce and consume commands

## Confluent CLI v2.7.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Added `confluent kafka client-config` commands
  - Improved logging for produce and consume commands, and during SSO login
  - Added support for multiline properties in cluster link configuration files

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fixed capitalization in human-readable output

## Confluent CLI v2.6.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

## Confluent CLI v2.6.1 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Improved cipher algorithm used for `secret` command

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix issue with updating cluster links

## Confluent CLI v2.6.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Verify checksums during `confluent update`
  - Enforce TLS 1.2 or greater
  - Added organization ID to login message
  - Produce and consume support for Confluent Platform
  - Add `kafka link` commands for Confluent Platform

**Bug Fixes**
: - Allow colons in role binding subject resources
  - Improve error when logging in to a suspended org

## Confluent CLI v2.5.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - List ACLs created with service account resource IDs in `kafka acl list`
  - Improve suggestion when API key is not recognized as valid

## Confluent CLI v2.5.0 Release Notes

**Breaking Changes**
: - Due to backend changes, the `--dry-run` and `--no-validate` flags in the `kafka link create` commands no longer have an effect.  Deprecation notices are added to the flag descriptions.

**New Features**
: - Improved shell completions for `bash` and `zsh`
  - Add `ksql cluster` commands and add deprecation warnings to `ksql app` commands

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix potential panic in `kafka cluster describe`
  - Fix potential request failures for users with large number of resources
  - Improvements to error and help messages

## Confluent CLI v2.4.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add support for logging into specific Confluent Cloud organizations
  - Update `librdkafka` to 1.8.2
  - Don’t show deactivated users (or those with expired invitations) in role binding list command
  - Add on-prem replica management commands
  - Improved version of `confluent shell` command
  - Add autocompletion support for remaining command flags (`--api-key`, `--context`, `--environment`)

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix issue where CLI would not show additional information with verbosity flags set (`-v`, `-vv`, `-vvv`, `-vvvv`)
  - Return error if SSO user enters different emails in CLI prompt and their SSO provider
  - Fix regression in `--ca-cert-path` flag so that it uses absolute filepaths
  - Check whether service account exists before attempting to create or delete a Kafka ACL
  - Add friendlier error messages for RBAC commands

## Confluent CLI v2.3.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Show the correct error for `confluent api-key list` and `confluent audit-log describe` if audit logs are disabled for an organization

## Confluent CLI v2.3.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Expand existing autocompletion functionality to include many command arguments and flags
  - Add built-in aliases for several long command names
  - Add reference support for JSON and protobuf in schema producer and consumer
  - Add `--subject-format` flag to `schema-registry exporter` commands
  - Notify user when ksqlDB cluster provisioning fails
  - Add extra validation logic for login URLs
  - Warn Confluent Platform users before enabling updates

**Bug Fixes**
: - Create audit log API keys using the correct service account
  - Err if a process is already listening on the SSO callback port
  - Fix panic when autocompleting `service-account` commands in `confluent shell`

## Confluent CLI v2.2.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Properly label “PAUSED” ksqlDB clusters

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix Windows failures due to missing `pthreads` library
  - NOTE: Users of `confluent` v2.0.0, v2.1.0, or v2.1.1 must manually update to this version with `curl -sL https://cnfl.io/cli | sh -s -- -b $(dirname $(which confluent))`

## Confluent CLI v2.1.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Restore partition count field when describing a topic’s configuration
  - Show success message when deleting a service account
  - Allow `CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_MDS_URL` and `CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CA_CERT_PATH` to be used with `confluent cluster describe`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix issue with listing pending user invitations
  - Fix issue with logging into SSO-enabled organizations when user is not already logged in
  - Only auto-login to the current context
  - Update description of `confluent prompt`
  - Hide `confluent iam acl` commands when logged into a cloud context

## Confluent CLI v2.0.0 Release Notes

**Breaking Changes**
: - WARNING: If you are updating from a prior Confluent CLI v1.x client, note that this version is NOT interoperable with Confluent Platform v7.0 or earlier. See [Supported Versions and Interoperability](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#confluent-cli) for full details on CLI client to Confluent Platform interoperability.
  - If you are updating from the Confluent Cloud CLI, the client name will change to `confluent` with this version.
  - See [Migration Guide](migrate.md#cli-migrate) for a full list of breaking changes and details regarding differences from v1.x.

**New Features**
: - This version of Confluent CLI supports both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform management.
  <br/>
    To use Confluent CLI v2.0 for Confluent Cloud, sign up with `confluent cloud-signup` or authenticate with `confluent login`.

## Confluent CLI v1.43.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

## Confluent CLI v1.43.1 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.43.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.42.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix 404 error in `confluent kafka acl list`

## Confluent CLI v1.41.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add support for managing brokers and partitions

## Confluent CLI v1.40.2 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Encrypt authenticated context and login credentials on local storage

## Confluent CLI v1.40.1 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.40.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix issues when changing directories after logging in with a custom CA cert path
  - Make `confluent iam rolebinding list` support filtering by resource
  - Fix `confluent iam rolebinding list` when no role is specified

## Confluent CLI v1.39.1 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.39.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.38.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.37.1 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.37.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Improved error messaging and help output

## Confluent CLI v1.36.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix the issue of inserting `+` for whitespace in `iam rolebinding` parameters

## Confluent CLI v1.35.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Performance improvements

**Bug Fixes**
: - Show all new release notes on CLI update

## Confluent CLI v1.34.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Kafka ACL management via Confluent REST Proxy

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix logout panic when removing netrc entry

## Confluent CLI v1.33.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Remove credentials from `.netrc` file when `logout` command is run
  - Move non-interactive login/environment messages to debug-level printouts to `stderr`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix supporting custom home directories specified via the `$HOME` environment variable

## Confluent CLI v1.32.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix `iam acl create` bug for User principals with `@` symbol

## Confluent CLI v1.31.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Increase default number of metadata key iterations from 1000 to 10000

## Confluent CLI v1.30.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.29.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.28.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix bug where update command fails to find some versions

## Confluent CLI v1.28.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Improved help text and examples

## Confluent CLI v1.27.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Build and release darwin/arm64 binaries and archives

## Confluent CLI v1.26.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Topic management commands via Confluent REST Proxy API

**Bug Fixes**
: - Use `CONFLUENT_MDS_URL` and `CONFLUENT_CA_CERT_PATH` for login command when set
  - Require `--role` flag for `iam rolebinding delete` command

## Confluent CLI v1.25.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.24.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Non-interactive login
  - CONFLUENT_MDS_URL and CONFLUENT_CA_CERT_PATH environment variable support

## Confluent CLI v1.23.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Better handling of `--ca-cert-path` flag for saved logins

## Confluent CLI v1.22.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Stateless mode
  - Support self-signed certs for `confluent cluster describe`

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix `confluent local services start` bug for Centos
  - Fix no newline bug when auto injected configs are appended to manually added configs for `confluent local` commands

## Confluent CLI v1.21.1 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Fix case where wrong ca-cert-path might be used when logging in

## Confluent CLI v1.21.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - `--prompt` flag for login command to bypass non-interactive login

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix automatic update of auth tokens for username/email with special characters

## Confluent CLI v1.20.1 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Prompt for credentials instead of throwing error when non-interactive login fails

## Confluent CLI v1.20.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Verbose HTTP and TLS information is logged (with trace log level) when logging in to the CLI.
  - Non-interactive login supported via environment variables
  - Binaries and archives are now shipped for Alpine Linux

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fixed issue where update command may not detect new CLI versions

## Confluent CLI v1.19.1 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.19.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Infer default protocol and port number for URLs when logging in

**Bug Fixes**
: - When using local Kafka sub-commands, only check status of Kafka cluster if it is a locally-running cluster
  - Fix flushing of logs and log processing during CLI startup

## Confluent CLI v1.18.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Improve warning messages for audit log commands

## Confluent CLI v1.17.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Expose context management commands

**Bug Fixes**
: - Add additional logging when setting custom CA cert path
  - Updated list of connectors for CP 6.0
  - Fix KSQL path issue for CP versions older than 5.5
  - Minor documentation/example fixes

## Confluent CLI v1.16.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Add audit log migration commands
  - Support piping credentials to login commands

## Confluent CLI v1.15.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.14.0 Release Notes

No changes relating to Confluent CLI for this version.

## Confluent CLI v1.13.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix command output bug for commands that were supposed to output to Stdout but were outputting to Stderr

## Confluent CLI v1.13.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Allow for pipe-able log output from `confluent local services ... log`.

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix panic when invalid role is specified during resource-scoped rolebinding commands.
  - Fix grammar and typos in command help and examples.

## Confluent CLI v1.12.1 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix success and error message display bug

## Confluent CLI v1.12.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Improve error message handling for audit log commands
  - Fix parsing of credentials on Windows for login command

## Confluent CLI v1.11.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Rewrite `confluent local` command to use consistent grammar and eliminate need for passing – to subcommands with arguments
  - Add `confluent cluster` command to register/unregister clusters from a Confluent Cluster Registry instance (Confluent Platform 5.5+)
  - Update RBAC rolebinding commands to support friendly cluster names
  - Add Schema Registry ACLs commands for `confluent local`
  - Improve error and success messages and add suggestions for commands that don’t succeed

**Bug Fixes**
: - Update macOS system requirements for Confluent Platform 6.0
  - Fix handling of errors from invalid RBAC rolebinding commands for Confluent Platform 6.0
  - Handle errors with loading CLI configuration files and ignore them when configs aren’t needed
  - Respect log output/verbosity levels when loading configuration files
  - Only check for updates once every 24 hours

## Confluent CLI v1.10.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Compatibility fix for RBAC in Confluent Platform 5.x

## Confluent CLI v1.9.0 Release Notes

**Bug Fixes**
: - Restrict feedback nudges to fewer commands
  - Skip update check when running the update command

## Confluent CLI v1.8.0 Release Notes

**New Features**
: - Update RBAC rolebinding commands to support friendly cluster names (CP 6.0)
  - Add `feedback` command so users can give direct in-product feedback
  - Start publishing release notes with each release

**Bug Fixes**
: - Fix panics when metadata service returns internal server errors
  - Improve command examples in help output