--- title: Charmhub | Deploy Apache Kafka Connect using Charmhub - The Open Operator Collection description: Deploy the latest version of Apache Kafka Connect on any cloud. url: https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149 --- # Apache Kafka Connect [Canonical](https://charmhub.io/publisher/data-platform "View all packages from Canonical") * [Canonical](https://charmhub.io/publisher/data-platform "View all packages from Canonical") Platform: 24.04 22.04 4/stable 37 ``` juju deploy kafka-connect --channel 4/stable ``` [Learn to deploy on juju >](https://juju.is/docs/juju/manage-applications) --- #### Relevant links * [Homepage](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-connect-operator) --- #### Contacts ##### Maintainers + [Canonical Data Platform](mailto:data-platform@lists.launchpad.net) * [Submit a bug](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-connect-operator/issues) --- Share your thoughts on this charm with the community on discourse. [Join the discussion](https://discourse.charmhub.io/) # Revision 195/149 Wed, Dec 18th, 2024 Dear community, We are pleased to report that we have just released a new updated version for the Charmed Apache Kafka bundles on the `3/stable` channel, upgrading Charmed Apache ZooKeeper revision from 136 to 149, and Charmed Apache Kafka from 156 to 195. The new release comes with a number of new features from the charms, from Juju secrets support, OAuth/OIDC authentication support, various improvements in the UI/UX and dependencies upgrades. Please reach out should you have any question, comment, feedback or information. You can find us here in [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#charmhub-data-platform:ubuntu.com) or also on [Discourse](https://discourse.charmhub.io/). ## [Charmed Apache Kafka bundle](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-charmed-apache-kafka-bundle) New features and bug fixes in the Charmed Apache Kafka bundle: ### [Features](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-features) * [DPE-2285] Refer to Charmhub space from GitHub (#200) * [DPE-3333] Add integration test for broken tls (#188) * [DPE-3721] chore: use tools-log4j.properties for run\_bin\_command (#201) * [DPE-3735] Integration of custom alerting rules and dashboards (#180) * [DPE-3780] Set workload version in install hook (#182) * [DPE-3857] Test consistency between workload and metadata versions (#186) * [DPE-3926] Enforce zookeeper client interface (#196) * [DPE-3928] feat: secrets integration (#189) * [DPE-5702] chore: Active Controllers alert set to == 0 (#252) * [CSS-6503] Add OAuth support for non-charmed external clients (#168) * [DPE-5757] Add `extra-listeners` config option (#269) ### [Bug fixes](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-bug-fixes) * [DPE-3880] Remove instance field from grafana dashboard (#191) * [DPE-3880] Remove all instances of $job variable in dashboard (#181) * [DPE-3900] Remove APT references (#183) * [DPE-3932] Fix illegal character on matrix channel (#187) * [DPE-4133] Do not change permissions on existing folders when reusing storage (#195) * [DPE-4362] fix: alive, restart and alive handling (#202) * [DPE-5757] fix: ensure certs are refreshed on SANs DNS changes (#276) ### [Other changes](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-other-changes) * [MISC] Test on juju 3.4 (#190) * [MISC] Update package dependencies * [DPE-3588] Release documentation update (#175) * [MISC] CI improvements (#209) * [DPE-3214] Release 3.6.1 (#179) * [DPE-5565] Upgrade dataplatform libs to v38 * [discourse-gatekeeper] Migrate charm docs (#210, #203, #198, #194, #192) * [DPE-3932] Update information in metadata.yaml ## [Charmed Apache ZooKeeper bundle](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-charmed-apache-zookeeper-bundle) New features and bug fixes in the Charmed Apache ZooKeeper bundle: ### [Features](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-features) * [DPE-2285] Refer to Charmhub space from GitHub (#143) * [DPE-2597] Re use existing storage (#138) * [DPE-3737] Implement ZK client interface (#142) * [DPE-3782] Set workload version in install and config hooks (#130) * [DPE-3857] Test consistency between workload and metadata versions (#136) * [DPE-3869] Secrets in ZK (#129) * [DPE-5626] chore: update ZooKeeper up alerting (#166) ### [Bug fixes](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-bug-fixes) * [DPE-3880] Remove job variable from dashboard (#134) * [DPE-3900] Remove APT references (#131) * [DPE-3932] Fix illegal character on matrix channel (#133, #135) * [DPE-4183] fix: only handle quorum removal on relation-departed (#146) * [DPE-4362] fix: alive, restart and alive handling (#145) ### [Other changes](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-other-changes) * [DPE-5565] Stable release upgrade * chore: bump dp\_libs ver (#147) * [MISC] General update dependencies (#144) * [MISC] Update CI to Juju 3.4 (#137) * [DPE-3932] Update information in metadata.yaml * [MISC] Update cryptography to 42.0.5 Canonical Data issues are now public on both [Jira](https://warthogs.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/DPE/issues/) and [GitHub](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-operator/issues) platforms. ## [Inside the charms](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-inside-the-charms) Contents of the Charmed Apache Kafka and Charmed Apache ZooKeeper include: * Charmed Apache ZooKeeper is based on the [charmed-zookeeper snap](https://snapcraft.io/charmed-zookeeper) of the `3/stable` channel (Ubuntu LTS “22.04” - core22-based) that ships the Apache ZooKeeper [3.8.4-ubuntu0](https://launchpad.net/zookeeper-releases/3.x/3.8.4-ubuntu0), built and supported by Canonical * Charmed Apache Kafka is based on the [charmed-kafka snap](https://snapcraft.io/charmed-kafka) of the `3/stable` channel (Ubuntu LTS “22.04” - core22-based) that ships the Apache Kafka [3.6.1-ubuntu0](https://launchpad.net/kafka-releases/3.x/3.6.1-ubuntu0), built and supported by Canonical * Principal charms support the latest LTS series “22.04” only. More information about the artifacts are provided by the following table: | Artifact | Track/Series | Version/Revision | Code | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Apache ZooKeeper distribution | 3.x | 3.8.4-ubuntu0 | [78499c](https://git.launchpad.net/zookeeper-releases/tree/?h=lp-3.8.4&id=78499c9f4d4610f9fb963afdad1ffd1aab2a96b8) | | Apache Kafka distribution | 3.x | 3.6.1-ubuntu0 | [db44db](https://git.launchpad.net/kafka-releases/tree/?h=lp-3.6.1&id=db44db1ebf870854dddfc3be0187a976b997d4dc) | | Charmed Apache ZooKeeper snap | 3/stable | 34 | [13f3c6](https://github.com/canonical/charmed-zookeeper-snap/tree/13f3c620658fdc55b7d6745b81c7b5a00e042e10) | | Charmed Apache ZooKeeper operator | 3/stable | 149 | [40576c](https://github.com/canonical/zookeeper-operator/commit/40576c1c87badd1e2352afc013ed0754808ef44c) | | Charmed Apache Kafka snap | 3/stable | 37 | [c266f9](https://github.com/canonical/charmed-kafka-snap/tree/c266f9cd283408d2106d4682b67661205a12ea7f) | | Charmed Apache Kafka operator | 3/stable | 195 | [7948df](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-operator/pull/241/commits/7948dfbbfaaa53fccc88beaa90f80de1e70beaa9) | ## [Technical notes](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/r-rev195_149#p-34996-technical-notes) * [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/canonical/kafka-operator/releases) provide a detailed list of bugfixes, PRs, and commits for each revision. * Upgrades from previous stable versions can be done with the standard upgrading process, as outlined in the [documentation](https://charmhub.io/kafka-connect/docs/h-upgrade) ---