Topic management via IaC, topic policies, and topic catalog

Manage topics as code

Application teams can manage their topic lifecycle through infrastructure as code using the Topic object.

Enforce topic configuration with policies

Platform teams can restrict topic configurations with Topic Policies: enforce naming standards, limit partition counts, require specific replication factors, and prevent expensive configurations.

Discover topics through the catalog

The Topic Catalog shows topics associated with applications across all clusters, searchable by name and labels. See ownership and business metadata at a glance.

Customize Consume page columns

Choose which columns to display in the Consume page. Show or hide metadata based on what you need.

View Schema ID and header count per message

The message viewer shows schemaId and header count for each message.

Sort connectors by task count

The Kafka Connect list can be sorted by task count.

For a full list of changes, read the complete release notes.