Control Center Changelog

Version 6.0.1

• Added the ability to search by Cluster id on the Clusters home screen.
• Added Cluster ID as a read-only field under Cluster settings.
• Added detailed syntax validation errors in the schema editor UI.
• Added additional helpful tooltips to topic creation flow.
• Added support for friendly cluster names on RBAC management screens.
• Fixed an issue with tooltip behavior on single-line vs multi-line charts.
• Various enhancements and optimizations to the Control Center UI.

Version 6.0.0

• Introduced self-balancing options on the UI, enabling users to easily balance workloads and dynamically expand and shrink clusters.
• Introduced Tiered Storage options on the UI, giving users the option to add and scale storage.
• Enabled auto-updates to the user interface by default.

Version 5.5.1

• Fixed an issue that enabled the “Upload Connector Config file” button for restricted users.
• Fixed an issue that enabled the “Set Up Alert” button on the Consumer Group page for restricted users.
• Fixed an issue that enabled Connector operations (add, edit, delete, play, pause) for restricted users.
• Updated the RequestBuffer default size to allow for larger cookies. This parameter is described on the Control Center Command Reference page under General settings.
• Various enhancements and optimizations to the Control Center UI.

Version 5.4.0

• Added UI for managing RBAC role assignments.
• Added Replicator monitoring.
• Added Auto-update UI feature.
• Added Cluster Overview page.
• Added Broker Metrics page.
• Added ability to delete topics.
• Added ability to upload and download connector configurations.
• Added partition size to topic overview page.
• Added time series data for offline topic partitions, under replicated partitions, and out-of-sync replicas.
• Various enhancements and bug fixes to RBAC enforcement, Connect, KSQL, and License Manager.
• Bug fixes for backend HTTP client.

Version 5.3.0

• Redesigned the Control Center UI, including KSQL and Connect enhancements. New pages show cluster overview, topics pages, and consumers index.
• RBAC enforcement.
• Topic message browser enhancements, including jump to timestamp and download results in JSON format.
• Alert enhancements that added Slack and PagerDuty webhook notifications, a new Consumer lead alert, pause and resume global alerts actions, and fast navigation to Alerts features from the Alerts bell icon.

Version 5.2.0

• Added multiple Connect support.
• Added multiple KSQL support.
• Added broker configs editing.
• Added Schema Registry editing.
• Added license management UI.
• Improved message browsing.
• Improved KSQL UI.
• Improved scalability.

Version 5.1.0

• Browser support for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For more information, see Web Browsers.
• A new, more readable light theme.
• Many bug fixes and UX improvements.
• Added configuration confluent.controlcenter.license.manager=_confluent-controlcenter-license-manager-5-1-0. (It was confluent.controlcenter..license.manager = _confluent-controlcenter-license-manager5-1-0 in first 5.1.x release, but it is fixed now.) No need for customers to override this configuration.

Version 5.0.0

• Added KSQL interface to create/view streams, tables, and queries.
• Added topic inspection to read messages from a topic.
• Added consumer group message lag viewing and alerting.
• Added Schema Registry viewing.
• Added read only view of broker configurations.
• Added feature flags for variety of user accessible features.

Version 4.1.0

• Added ability to create and edit topics in Control Center.
• Added topic filtering and ability to hide Apache Kafka®/Confluent Platform internal topics from the UI.
• Added new alert to warn when Control Center stops receiving data from a Kafka cluster.
• Added a restricted user type that prevents editing or creating of topics, alerts, or connectors.

Version 4.0.1

• Made calls to Connect more resilient.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent chart highlighting on System Health charts.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Control Center to improperly warn about improper log dirs on brokers.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Control Center to improperly alert about active controller count.

Version 4.0.0

• Fixed an issue that could cause long request times if a cluster had brokers with noncontiguous IDs.
• Additional logging during startup.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Control Center to show blank graphs when data was present.
• Set and enforce TimestampType for internal Control Center topics at startup.
• Fixed an issue that caused us to link to an invalid consumer group on Streams Monitoring.
• Fixed an issue where Broker Monitoring could check for data last update time on wrong cluster.
• Allow overriding ConfluentMetricsReporter default producer settings.
• Allow using a file for confluent.license config.
• Docker image: allow passing license using CONTROL_CENTER_CONFLUENT_LICENSE environment variable.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Offline and Under Replicated Partitions data to be swapped.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Control Center to shutdown if it lost connection to Kafka.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Control Center to hang if it encountered an error creating topics on startup.

Version 3.3.1 (EOSL)

• Allow text input in date picker.
• Fixed an issue that could cause unsubmittable forms.
• Show renamed cluster value rather than base clusterid on alerts page.
• Added alert banner on Broker Monitoring to indicate a cluster may be down.
• Scalability increase for Broker Monitoring to reduce number of messages sent to Kafka.
• Fixed an issue where 100% Network Pool Usage was displayed instead of 0%.
• Allow graceful shutdown of Control Center during startup.
• Fixed a race condition that could happen if you start Control Center and your Kafka broker at the same time.

Version 3.3.0 (EOSL)

• Sped up restore time.
• Reduced the size of old data over long periods of time.
• Upgraded to use new admin client (KIP-117).
• Alert UI should render better alert information.
• Triggers are createable directly though the UI on System Health.
• Massive performance improvements to Stream Monitoring UI.
• Fixed various time range display/selection bugs; persist time ranges though navigation.
• Nonconfigurable form values being sent to Connect via UI should remain and be visible prior to submit.

Version 3.2.2 (EOSL)

• Added shutdown script.
• Force faster compaction and cleanup on changelog topics.
• Several Streams improvements to reduce state-store restoration time after unclean shutdown.
• Reduce the volume of data to be restored to state-stores on startup.
• Fixed possible concurrency problem in setting RocksDB configuration options.
• Fixed possible deadlock on exception after streams startup.

Version 3.2.1 (EOSL)

• Enabled HTTP compression by default.
• Fixed possible deadlock on streams exception.
• Fixed fd leak when communicating with Kafka.
• Update defaults for monitoring producers to be more resilient.
• Prevent inadvertently creating misconfigured topics during startup during a failure.
• Check Kafka version at startup.
• Reduce minimum startup time.
• More efficient duplicate checking to reduce write amplification.
• Handle ‘hidden’ connect configs. This allows Control Center to manage Connectors that do not fully enumerate their configs.
• Ensure users only see invalid license warning if their license is invalid.
• Fixed topic display bug that would prevent topic details from showing.
• Reduced logging in js.
• Allow users to close missing data modal dialogs.
• Better rendering of System Health metrics especially when some data is missing.
• Better validation of triggers, actions, and connector configs.
• Faster processing of trigger and action creation and update.
• Corrected some misleading labels on System Health.
• Better error handling around Connect communications.
• Change default timespan in UI to 4 hours.
• Check and warn about errors on Topic Management page.

Version 3.2.0 (EOSL)

• Add capabilities to monitor brokers instrumented with Confluent Metrics Reporter.
• Enable alerting on broker and topic metrics.
• Add UI for viewing topic information.
• Add status UI for tracking internal progress.
• Fixed bug where we could inadvertently show license expired message.
• Fixed bugs with alert trigger creation in UI.
• Fixed issue with parsing certain error conditions from Connect.

Version 3.1.0 (EOSL)

• Enable gathering stream monitoring data from multiple clusters.
• Support alerting on stream monitoring conditions.
• Ability to restrict UI access via user login.

Version 3.0.1 (EOSL)

• Improved data fetching from the browser.
• Handle authenticated/authorized Kafka clusters.
• Bug fix for running in daemon mode.
• More efficient topic creation at startup.
• Reduced number of necessary topics/rocksdbs for aggregations.
• Reduced total amount of stored data.
• Fixed timing issues when receiving delayed data.
• Configs updates to prefix Kafka/rest configs.
• Added rate limit for logging to prevent logsize blowup.
• Allow deleting connector in UI.