Confluent Private Cloud Release Notes

The following sections summarize the technical details of the Confluent Private Cloud releases.

Confluent Private Cloud 8.1.0 Release Notes

Confluent Private Cloud 8.1.0 is the initial major release with the following noteworthy new features and updates.

Major features and highlights

Intelligent Replication

Intelligent Replication delivers up to 10x performance improvements for Kafka workloads at scale. This performance technology, previously available only in Confluent Cloud, is now available to self-managed Confluent Platform clusters through Confluent Private Cloud, enabling new levels of performance and scalability.

It includes two components:

• A new replication implementation to complement Kafka’s existing replication implementation

• An algorithm that monitors and intelligently switches between replication implementations to achieve performance while maintaining replica consistency

For details, see Intelligent Replication Overview.

Confluent Private Cloud Gateway

The Confluent Private Cloud Gateway (Confluent Gateway) is an Kafka protocol-aware proxy positioned between clients and clusters for stateless routing. It is designed to support secure, scalable, and seamless connectivity for private cloud deployments.

The release features Confluent Gateway versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0.

For release details, see Confluent Private Cloud Gateway Release Notes.