New features and quality of life improvements, whats not to like?

Sam just added a couple of items to the community call agenda for this week.

Kroxylicious Introduction YouTube video by Kroxylicious

Kroxylicious is the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®.

See how it works in 3 minutes:
youtu.be/xLOjKScpJ3Q

#ApacheKafka #Kroxylicious #EventStreaming #DataEngineering

Kroxylicious is a growing project so we are looking to scale things up, check out our latest blog post for the full details kroxylicious.io/2026/03/04/e...

As fun as it is to make these releases (and they really are a team effort, should have heard the swearing to get this one out) its even more fun to hear from people using the proxy to solve real problems they have.

The Kroxylicious projects is excited to announce v0.18.0.

This release focused on supporting authentication both from the broker and in proxy!

Release announcement: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

GitHub: github.com/kroxylicious...
Maven Central: central.sonatype.com/search?q=g:i...

Kroxylicious is pleased to announce that 0.17.1[1] is now generally available!

This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.

We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0

[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 bit.ly/3IpOflV. Main changes bit.ly/4o3Eby5 are Kafka 4.1 compatibility and observabilty improvements. Happy proxying🐊.

Kroxylicious 0.15.0 released

This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

Getting into the auth space opens up so many more potential filters and use cases, we're really excited what we can do here but please do come have your say

A lot of hard work has gone into this, I really hope it simplifies getting the proxy working on Kubernetes

Kafka Encryption for Cardholder Data: Solving PCI Challenges with Kroxylicious Encrypt Kafka messages at rest without changing app code — using Kroxylicious and OpenBao to meet PCI encryption requirements.

It’s great to see someone organically recognise the value of Record Encryption. mostafahussein.medium.com/kafka-encryp...

Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

#apacheKafka

Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...

New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun... our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting

The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. bit.ly/4iCP0nZ

The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.

We’ve been spotted swimming in the wild. callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!

The Kroxylicious project is as pleased as always to announce v0.10.0 kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli....

This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager

Very pleased to say that I did it and with time to spare! I ran 1000 miles this year!

Well that was a fun way to discover exactly how Kafka evolves ApiVersions...

How was the weather on approach, for forecast is a bit rough for my landing tomorrow.

Greetings from Monday evening. Stuff got done. Tests even passed it was successful😀

12 hours in the air plus 6 ish layover in Sydney…

It’s what I get for living at the bottom of the earth!

Haha yeah, still taking me 18hours to get there…

See you there!