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v1.3.0

Release date: 2025-12-28

Highlights

  • Fixed advertised broker metadata and added external access e2e coverage.
  • Improved Kafka client compatibility (including Java producer) with expanded e2e tests.
  • Streamlined Kafka CLI setup by skipping kind image load.

Known limitations

  • TLS/SASL authentication is planned for v1.5+ (see roadmap).
  • No Kafka transactions, KRaft APIs, or embedded stream processing.

Security fixes

  • No known runtime vulnerabilities were fixed in this release.