0.45.1-rc1

⚠️ Important: Strimzi 0.45 supports only Kubernetes 1.25 and newer. Kubernetes 1.23 and 1.24 are not supported anymore.

Main changes since 0.45.0

This release contains the following new features and improvements:

• Dependency updates (Vert.x 4.5.13, Netty 4.1.118.Final).
• Fixed bug which may lead to metadata loss within the cluster when restarting a KRaft migration after a previous rollback due to missing /migration znode deletion.
• Fixed CVE-2024-57699 by overriding json-smart dependency with 2.5.2 version.
• Add support for Kafka 3.9.1

All changes can be found under the 0.45.1 milestone.

Watch out also for some notable changes, deprecations, and removals:

• Strimzi 0.45 is the last minor Strimzi version with support for ZooKeeper-based Apache Kafka clusters and MirrorMaker 1 deployments.
  Please make sure to migrate to KRaft and MirrorMaker 2 before upgrading to Strimzi 0.46 or newer.
• Strimzi 0.45 is the last Strimzi version to include the Strimzi EnvVar Configuration Provider (deprecated in Strimzi 0.38.0) and Strimzi MirrorMaker 2 Extensions (deprecated in Strimzi 0.28.0).
  Please use the Apache Kafka EnvVarConfigProvider and Identity Replication Policy instead.

Maven artifacts

To test the Maven artifacts that are part of this release, use the 0.45.1-RC1 version in your pom.xml.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.45.0

See the documentation for upgrade instructions.

Upgrading from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier

Direct upgrade from Strimzi 0.22 or earlier is not supported anymore! You have to upgrade first to one of the previous versions of Strimzi. You will also need to convert the CRD resources. For more details, see the documentation.

Container images

The following container images are part of this release:

Name	Image
Operators	quay.io/strimzi/operator@sha256:58e8722216b0b0e8b1dd79109725238fa4016a16cc6a9fca0e327bccb1506810
Apache Kafka 3.8.0	quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:173cb5793756f75739c51a83bbe06d7f0094fd003a2982160a5cc6e216cd6d28
Apache Kafka 3.8.1	quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:6a05924839a2c7da0431408e6d6223a055e75d88b3f057ac5caa7f9097227f56
Apache Kafka 3.9.0	quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:e98fbe49cadbc5d3afbd8f17abea218f216c95d52f4fa1fe514a7a988624da24
Apache Kafka 3.9.1	quay.io/strimzi/kafka@sha256:ba52ed046b1dccdbd96f4e68057ce014d862a7c9c1fc670760c023b9aa09f23f
Strimzi Bridge	quay.io/strimzi/kafka-bridge@sha256:c462441a966f0732855e684b4840563bfad45391345c9511fa49e1630ba9c3e3
Kaniko executor	quay.io/strimzi/kaniko-executor@sha256:ef1a39c363e145041d80103c3c12da9429ce06cf21dff6fb1fb75d0c0ed9c35b
Maven Builder	quay.io/strimzi/maven-builder@sha256:770e410f1e7e0e92c31bae6c19831ba36d59dd11b44e90c159aef16a965aa998

What's Changed

• Cherry-pick OPA and Additional Volumes in MM2 fixes to 0.45 release branch by @scholzj in #11030
• Cherry-pick bumped Vert.x 4.5.12 and Netty 4.1.117.Final to 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11079
• Cherry-pick update Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to 7.1.0 to 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11265
• Chery-pick Update Vert.x to 4.5.13 to 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11266
• Added initial CHANGELOG for 0.45.1 by @ppatierno in #11268
• Fixed missing deletion of the migration znode on KRaft migration rollback by @ppatierno in #11271
• Added deleteClaim usage on KRaft controllers PVCs deletion on migration by @ppatierno in #11282
• docs(kraft): kraft migration: previous rollback warning by @PaulRMellor in #11284
• [ST] Add test for migration-rollback-migration with additional checks by @im-konge in #11285
• Update GitHub actions/cache plugin by @im-konge in #11289
• Chery-pick Update Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to 7.2.0 to 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11395
• Chery-pick allow ignore path kaniko opt to 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11397
• Added json-smart 2.5.2 as dependency to fix CVE-2024-57699 on 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11411
• Add support for Kafka 3.9.1 by @ppatierno in #11364
• Removed leftover staging repo on 0.45.x release branch by @ppatierno in #11470
• Moved to use the Sonatype Central Portal cherry pick on release-0.45.x branch by @ppatierno in #11494
• Cherry-pick 'Added project names for the ones to be published to Maven Central' to release-0.45.x branch by @im-konge in #11502
• [release-0.45.x] Release RC artifacts directly to Sonatype by @im-konge in #11508
• Bump jetty to address CVE-2024-6763 and CVE-2024-13009 by @fvaleri in #11536
• [release-0.45.x] Bump test-containers to 0.109.2 by @im-konge in #11547
• [release-0.45.x] Bumped OAuth 0.15.1 by @ppatierno in #11545
• Updated bridge to 0.31.2 by @ppatierno in #11564