v21.1.1

Major release. Please stay tuned for news/updates on 21.1.2 or greater next week.

This release is safe to use in production.
This release is to exercise all the production channels, before major announcement.

v20.12.9

Highlights

• fixes problem when admin deletes data directory out of bound #330

List of Changes

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v20.12.7...v20.12.9

v20.12.7

Highlights

• basic SCRAM infrastructure landed
• throughput improvements by removing the timeout on replicate batcher from raft to match that of the network layer
• supressed heartbeats while in replication (catch up) mode
• move api docs to /usr/share
• implemented priority based leader elections
• reduced the timeout on Kafka api fetch
• add basic incremental config parsing

List of Changes

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v20.12.6...v20.12.7

v20.12.6

Highlights

• Add --kafka-addr, --rpc-addr, --advertise-kafka-addr, --advertise-rpc-addr & --node-id flags to rpk start.
• Use the new flags in rpk container start, instead of relying on volumes.

List of changes

v20.12.5...v20.12.6

v20.12.5

Highlights

• Fix a bug in rpk start which caused any
  existing seed nodes to be cleared.
• Always use absolute paths for the config file.

List of changes

release-20.12.4...release-20.12.5

release-20.12.4

Highlights

• Fix the permissions for the config dir on both
  rpm & debian-based distros.

List of changes

release-20.12.2...release-20.12.4

release-20.12.2

Highlights

• Fix the parsing of seed addrs in rpk start

List of changes

release-20.12.1...release-20.12.2

release-20.12.1

highlights

• configuration moved to viper for all of rpk
• hearbeat backpressure fixed as well as latency improvements for acks=-1
• initial coproc/wasm was merged

list of changes

release-20.11.6...release-20.12.1

release-20.11.6

• fixes assertion triggered when fetching multiple topics in one request
  found by community member Kyloon Chuah with Faust app

release-20.11.5

• Incremental fetching implemented on the kafka API
• async prefetching for the kafka API
• mac os signed binaries