Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 2.0.5 - GA

• Update log4j-core version from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0. This release addresses the issues described in Splunk Security Advisory for Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228).
• Added GZIP compression feature to send compressed data to the Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC).

Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 2.0.4 - GA

• Update log4j-core version from 2.13.2 to 2.15.0 to address CVE-2021-44228

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 2.0.3 - GA

GA release of Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 2.0.3

• Provide support of topics.regex functionality, which is used for declaring topic subscriptions as name pattern, instead of specifying each topic in a list.
• Upgrade Jackson databind version from 2.10.3 to 20.10.5.1 to address CVE-2020-25649.
• Upgrade Kafka-connect-api version from 2.4.1 to 2.8.1 to address CVE-2021-38153.
• Upgrade Junit framework-related dependency(4.12 to 4.13.2) to address CVE-2020-15250.
• Migrating CI pipeline from CircleCI to GitHub Actions.

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 2.0.2 - GA

GA release of Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 2.0.2

• Bug fix: not clearing old partition data when rebalancing happens between Kafka connect cluster.
• Support for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) deployments.

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 2.0.1 - GA

GA release of Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 2.0.1

• Bugfix for ConcurrentModificationException error when using multi-threaded HEC polling

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 2.0 - GA

GA release of Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 2.0

• Provide a configurable flush window so that users can control throughput of the connector
• Clear Record Tracker(internal memory buffer) on acknowledgments to reduce memory footprint
• Polling for Indexer fault tolerance
• Handle Null/Empty events gracefully
• Bug fix for offsets not being committed when using formatted events
• Handle incorrectly formatted data
• HEC Telemetry implementation for Kafka
• Cloud CI pipeline for testing against Splunk Cloud
• Automate the functional tests for Splunk Connect for Kafka
• Fix incorrect version shown on Kafka Connect REST API

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 1.2.0 - GA

GA release of Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 1.2.0

• Bug fix for HEC Backoff Threshold which was set improperly due to miscalculation
• Add functional testing pipeline
• Update to 3rd party packages bundled with project

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 1.1.1 - GA

GA release of Splunk Connect for Kafka Version 1.1.1

• HEC Backoff Threshold is now configureable, previously pinned to 60 seconds for HEC servers to become available after failure.
• Improved Logging!! Event batches now have a UUID and retry counts for batches now display as a warning.
• Added kafka_connect_host metadata. When using splunk.hec.track.data the Kafka Connect Server hostname will be indexed by Splunk.
• Fixed issue when using Kafka Header functionality setting splunk.header.custom where comma separated list couldn't contain a space preceding a comma.
• Update to 3rd party packages bundled with project.

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 1.1.0 - GA

Features include:

• Header Support
• Sticky Session Improvement
• Support for Structured Records(JSON & AVRO converter support)
• Custom Java key store location

Splunk Connect for Kafka - Version 1.0.0 - GA Release

GA Release for Splunk Connect for Kafka

• Data ingestion from Kafka topics into Splunk via HTTP Event Collector(HEC).
• In flight transformation and meta-data support.
• Multiple topic to multiple index support.
• Acknowledgment mode for greater reliability.
• Data-loss and Data-Reliability metadata tracking.