0.16.0

Main Changes since 0.15.0

• Add support for Kafka 2.4.0 and upgrade from Zookeeper 3.4.x to 3.5.x
• Drop support for Kafka 2.2.1 and 2.3.0
• Add KafkaConnector resource and connector operator
• Let user choose which node address will be used as advertised host (ExternalDNS, ExternalIP, InternalDNS, InternalIP or Hostname)
• Add support for tini
• When not explicitly configured by the user in jvmOptions, -Xmx option is calculated from memory requests rather than from memory limits
• Expose JMX port on Kafka brokers via an internal service
• Add support for externalTrafficPolicy and loadBalancerSourceRanges properties on loadbalancer and nodeport type services
• Add support for user quotas
• Add service discovery labels and annotations
• Add possibility to specify custom server certificates to TLS based listeners
• Add support for Istio protocol selection in service port names
  • Note: Strimzi is essentially adding a tcp- prefix to the port names in Kafka services and headless services. (e.g clientstls -> tcp-clientstls)

Full list of changes can be found under the 0.16.0 milestone.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.15.x

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.