Changes

This release adds mm2 serdes support and full-text search across the app.
It also improves table sorting, kafka connect views, message handling, and navigation, with general performance and ux upgrades throughout.

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⚙️Features

• Implement MM2 serdes @Haarolean (BE: Serde: Impl MM2 serdes #1381 )
• Implement full text search @germanosin (BE: Full text search support #1267 )

🪛Enhancements

• Topics: Enable sorting by Replication Factor @fallen-up (FE: Enable sorting for Replication Factor (topics module) #1485 )
• KC: Show connector-level trace when status is FAILED @mehmetcangulesci (KC: Show connector-level trace when status is FAILED #1319 )
• Messages: impl message reproduce @benaskiburtas (FE: Messages: impl message reproduce #1207 )
• Implement app restart on dynamic config change @Haarolean (BE: Implement app restart on dynamic config change #1151 )
• Serde: Enable header serialization @MDzaja (Serde: Enable header serialization #509 )
• Allow disabling GitHub release info @stklcode (BE: Allow disabling GitHub release info #1108 )
• Perf: Improved speed of consumer groups requests @germanosin (BE: Improved speed of consumer groups requests #1308 )
• UX: Topics: Added Kafka Connect tab to the topic @Leshe4ka (FE: UX: Added Kafka Connect tab to the topic #1439 )
• UX: Topics: Sorting by messages count @Leshe4ka (FE: Sorting by messages count #1338 )
• UX: Improve navigation between clusters @Leshe4ka (FE: Improve navigation between clusters #1331 , UX: Improve navigation between clusters #1350 )
• UX: SR: Impl sorting @svrmnk (FE: SR: Impl sorting #389 )
• UX: Don't omit milliseconds in timestamps @Nilumilak (FE: Don't omit milliseconds in timestamps #1266 )
• UX: Topics: Add more retain options @BobDu (FE: Topics: Add more retain options #1264 )
• UX: Add Plain UTC timezone @Vixtir (FE: Add Plain UTC timezone #1231 )
• UX: Messages: Validate JSONPath syntax and show inline error instead of alert @AmandaBalderas20 (FE: Messages: Validate JSONPath syntax and show inline error instead of alert #1464 )
• UX: KC: Impl Kafka Connect overview @Vixtir (FE: UX: Impl Kafka Connect overview #1232 )
• UX: Added schemas version field sorting @germanosin (FE/BE: Added schemas version field sorting #1343 )
• BE: KC: Added connect cluster info @germanosin (BE: KC: Added connect cluster info #1247 )
• BE: Added connect stats @germanosin (BE: Added connect stats #1224 )

🔨Bug Fixes

• RBAC: Remove topic edit inheritance from messages_delete @Haarolean (RBAC: Remove topic edit inheritance from messages_delete #1452 )
• ARM fix: Update base image sha @junaid-ali (BE: ARM Fix: Update base image sha #1441 )
• UX: Fix Create ACL button available for r/o clusters @Haarolean (FE: Fix Create ACL button available for r/o clusters #1314 )
• UX: Show N/A when consumer lag is null @pandeysambhi (FE: UX: Show N/A when consumer lag is null #1217 )
• UX: Expose the Compare Versions button always @tub (FE: Expose the Compare Versions button always #1325 )
• Wizard: Update jaas.config for GCP managed Kafka (per Google docs) @mike-pt (FE: Wizard: Update jaas.config for GCP managed Kafka (per Google docs) #1141 )
• UX: Disable connector buttons in r/o mode @spartanns (FE: UX: Disable connector buttons in r/o mode #608 )
• Auth: Fix /login redirect loop @gaussianrecurrence (FE: Auth: Fix /login redirect loop #1265 )
• Auth: Fix context path for logout @pandeysambhi (FE: Auth: Fix context path for logout #1258 )
• Nuke spring logback config to enable default boot configs @Haarolean (BE: Nuke spring logback config to enable default boot configs #1460 )
• Metrics: Fix JMX metrics collection (2) @iliax (BE: Metrics: Fix JMX metrics collection (2) #1285 )
• Metrics: Sanitize metric names before indexing @germanosin (BE: Sanitize metric names before indexing #1283 )
• Internal: Fix NPE when parsing broker versions @germanosin (BE: Fix NPE when parsing broker versions #1242 )
• Internal: Invalidate Admin client on kafka error @germanosin ( BE: Invalidate Admin client on kafka error #1468 )
• Internal: Switch to Typespec contract description model @germanosin (Feature: Switch to Typespec contract description model #1131 )
• Internal: Add new metadata versions @germanosin (BE: Add new metadata versions #1434 )

Security

• BE: Fix alpine CVEs @Haarolean (BE: Fix alpine CVEs #1411 )
• Overwrite Netty temporarily @yeikel (BE: Chore: Overwrite Netty temporarily #1323 )
• FE: Some CVE fixes @Vixtir (FE: Some CVE fixes #1272 )
• BE: CVE fix of netty http2 @germanosin (BE: CVE fix of netty http2 #1268 )

Contributors

@AmandaBalderas20, @AspidDark, @BobDu, @Haarolean, @Leshe4ka, @MDzaja, @Nilumilak, @Vixtir, @benaskiburtas, @bguijt, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @fallen-up, @gaussianrecurrence, @germanosin, @iliax, @junaid-ali, @mehmetcangulesci, @mike-pt, @pandeysambhi, @shoffmeister, @spartanns, @stklcode, @stumbaumr, @survivant, @svrmnk, @trvrnrth, @tub and @yeikel