Confluent Control Center Release Notes

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Control Center is a web-based tool for managing and monitoring Confluent Platform.

Control Center is continuously updated with improvements and new features. This page highlights significant user-facing features and updates to the product.

[9/30/2025] Control Center version 2.2.1

New features

Customer-managed Confluent Platform for Confluent Cloud licenses can now be updated with Control Center.
CLI support for starting Confluent Platform 8.1 with KRaft single-node archive installations. For more information, see the documentation.

[6/11/2025] Control Center version 2.2.0

New features

Apache Flink® environment and application management in Confluent Manager for Apache Flink (CMF) is now Generally Available.
Generic webhook for alert notifications is now supported.
Control Center now uses Log4j2 as its logging framework.
Support for IPV6 available.
Support for monitoring and management of Confluent Platform 8.0 deployments.

CVEs and bug fixes

Fixed error while producing to a topic from UI with an avro schema, containing long fields
Fixed intermittent critical cluster warning displayed erroneously

[5/23/2025] Control Center version 2.1.0

New features

Early access of Apache Flink® environment and application management in Confluent Manager for Apache Flink (CMF). To participate, contact your account team at Confluent.

CVEs and bug fixes

Fixed intermittent topic not found on topic creation
Fixed cluster name clipped at the bottom

[5/15/2025] Control Center version 2.0.0

New features

Compatible with Confluent Platform 7.5 - 7.9 versions
Supports monitoring of multiple clusters with up to 400K partitions (including replication).
Support for Basic Authentication with TLS, as well as mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure communications between internal Control Center components.
Features a lightweight design that lowers system requirements. For more information, see Confluent Control Center Installation.

Warnings

Upgrade from Control Center (Legacy) to Control Center isn’t supported.
Migration of metrics from Control Center (Legacy) 7.x versions to Control Center isn’t supported. Users are encouraged to run both versions for a transition period. For more information, see Confluent Control Center Installation.
You must run Control Center on a separate host/vm/container/machine than Control Center (Legacy). If you must use the same host (vm/container/machine), first remove Control Center (Legacy) completely and then perform a fresh installation of Control Center.
The following alerts supported in Confluent Platform 7.x versions aren’t supported and cannot be migrated.
- ZooKeeper Disconnected
- Average latency (ms)
- Consumer lead
- Consumption difference
- Maximum latency (ms)