Sam Barker
@samturtelbarker.bsky.social
Principal software engineer at Red Hat (all opinions are mine, not theirs) working in the Kafka ecosystem: Mostly throwing bytes around with JVM’s as fast as possible.
Part of the team behind Kroxylicious.io
Part of the team behind Kroxylicious.io
Reposted by Sam Barker
Kroxylicious is pleased to announce that 0.17.1[1] is now generally available!
This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.
We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0
[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.
We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0
[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Kroxylicious release 0.17.1
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.17.1. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Kroxylicious is pleased to announce that 0.17.1[1] is now generally available!
This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.
We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0
[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.
We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0
[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Reposted by Sam Barker
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 bit.ly/3IpOflV. Main changes bit.ly/4o3Eby5 are Kafka 4.1 compatibility and observabilty improvements. Happy proxying🐊.
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 bit.ly/3IpOflV. Main changes bit.ly/4o3Eby5 are Kafka 4.1 compatibility and observabilty improvements. Happy proxying🐊.
Reposted by Sam Barker
Kroxylicious 0.15.0 released
This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Kroxylicious release 0.15.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.15.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Kroxylicious 0.15.0 released
This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Getting into the auth space opens up so many more potential filters and use cases, we're really excited what we can do here but please do come have your say
📣 Kroxylicious 0.14.0
- new AuthN APIs (more to come here)
- new metrics for tracking network stalls
- Fixing support for encrypting messages over 1mb (we don't judge the messages we proxy...)
- Better support for negotiating protocol versions
kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
- new AuthN APIs (more to come here)
- new metrics for tracking network stalls
- Fixing support for encrypting messages over 1mb (we don't judge the messages we proxy...)
- Better support for negotiating protocol versions
kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Kroxylicious release 0.14.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.14.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
August 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Getting into the auth space opens up so many more potential filters and use cases, we're really excited what we can do here but please do come have your say
A lot of hard work has gone into this, I really hope it simplifies getting the proxy working on Kubernetes
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.13.0. bit.ly/4efdZws
The big news - the first release of the Kroxylicious with an Operator. If you are deploying Kroxylicious to Kubernetes we hope this will simplify your life. Check it out. Feedback welcome.
The big news - the first release of the Kroxylicious with an Operator. If you are deploying Kroxylicious to Kubernetes we hope this will simplify your life. Check it out. Feedback welcome.
June 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A lot of hard work has gone into this, I really hope it simplifies getting the proxy working on Kubernetes
Reposted by Sam Barker
It’s great to see someone organically recognise the value of Record Encryption. mostafahussein.medium.com/kafka-encryp...
Kafka Encryption for Cardholder Data: Solving PCI Challenges with Kroxylicious
Encrypt Kafka messages at rest without changing app code — using Kroxylicious and OpenBao to meet PCI encryption requirements.
mostafahussein.medium.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It’s great to see someone organically recognise the value of Record Encryption. mostafahussein.medium.com/kafka-encryp...
Reposted by Sam Barker
Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
#apacheKafka
#apacheKafka
Kroxylicious release 0.12.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.12.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
May 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
#apacheKafka
#apacheKafka
Reposted by Sam Barker
Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...
Kroxylicious joins the Commonhaus foundation
The Kroxylicious team are pleased to announce the project is now part of the Commonhaus foundation. We believe this is an important step in providing a stable basis for you, our community, to build ar...
kroxylicious.io
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...
Reposted by Sam Barker
New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun... our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
kroxylicious-junit5-extension release 0.11.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.11.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 4.0. Support for earlier versions of Kafka is maintain...
kroxylicious.io
April 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun... our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
Reposted by Sam Barker
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. bit.ly/4iCP0nZ
The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.
The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.
Kroxylicious release 0.11.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. bit.ly/4iCP0nZ
The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.
The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.
Reposted by Sam Barker
We’ve been spotted swimming in the wild. callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!
Kroxylicious, Kafka Record Encryption and the Power of Proxies | Callista
Callista Enterprise - seniora IT-arkitekter och systemutvecklare inom Java, öppen källkod, agil utveckling och systemintegration
callistaenterprise.se
February 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We’ve been spotted swimming in the wild. callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!
Reposted by Sam Barker
The Kroxylicious project is as pleased as always to announce v0.10.0 kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli....
This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager
This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager
Kroxylicious release 0.10.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.10.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
February 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Kroxylicious project is as pleased as always to announce v0.10.0 kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli....
This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager
This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager
Very pleased to say that I did it and with time to spare! I ran 1000 miles this year!
December 21, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Very pleased to say that I did it and with time to spare! I ran 1000 miles this year!
Well that was a fun way to discover exactly how Kafka evolves ApiVersions...
Just in time for the holidays Kroxylicious 0.9.0 is available from all reputable sources of Jars.
Now with added #ApacheKafka 3.9 support!
Full details at: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Now with added #ApacheKafka 3.9 support!
Full details at: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Kroxylicious release 0.9.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.9.0. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 3.9.
kroxylicious.io
December 18, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Well that was a fun way to discover exactly how Kafka evolves ApiVersions...