Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 7.6.
This release builds upon Apache Kafka 3.6, reinforcing our product's core principles of being cloud-native, complete, and everywhere while introducing innovative functionalities. These are the top-level release highlights:
- Enhance scalability and simplify your architecture with seamless upgrades for existing clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft
- Continue to offload even more data to object storage and improve elasticity through compaction support for Tiered Storage
- Reduce operational burden by managing application identities and credentials through your own OIDC identity provider with OAuth (early access)
- Support production deployments on Arm64 hardware, allowing you to maintain the performance of Kafka at lower costs - on cost-efficient servers or on low-footprint edge infra
- Support production deployment for Rocky Linux
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Confluent Platform 7.6 at a Glance
Read the blog post or the full release notes for more details.
Cheers,
Confluent Team