Kroxylicious

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Kroxylicious, the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®

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Websitehttps://www.kroxylicious.io
GitHubhttps://www.github.com/Kroxylicious
KroxyliciousMar 9

Kroxylicious is the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®.

See how it works in 3 minutes:
https://youtu.be/xLOjKScpJ3Q

#apachekafka #dataengineering

Kroxylicious Introduction

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KroxyliciousMar 4
Kroxylicious is a growing project so we are looking to scale things up, check out our latest blog post for the full details https://kroxylicious.io/2026/03/04/evolving-governance.html
Scaling for the Future: Evolving Kroxylicious Governance

Hot on the heels of the release of Kroxylicious 0.19.0 we have some other news to share. We are excited to announce a shift in how we manage the project, partly based on the proven model used by the Apache Software Foundation.

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KroxyliciousMar 4

As always the Kroxylicious team are very pleased to announce the release the 0.19.0 release (https://kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxylicious-proxy/releases/2026/03/04/release-0_19_0.html).

Kroxylicious will now bite down on Kafka 4.2 RPC calls, snack on idle connections and other quality of life improvements.

Kroxylicious release 0.19.0

We’re excited to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.19.0! There’s a lot to dig into — check out the full Changelog for everything including deprecations, changes, and removals.

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KroxyliciousDec 3

The Kroxylicious projects is excited to announce v0.18.0.

This release focused on supporting authentication both from the broker and in proxy!

Release announcement: https://kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxylicious-proxy/releases/2025/11/28/release-0_18_0.html

GitHub: https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/releases/tag/v0.18.0
Maven Central: https://central.sonatype.com/search?q=g:io.kroxylicious%20v:0.18.0

Kroxylicious release 0.18.0

The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.18.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

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KroxyliciousNov 7

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] https://kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxylicious-proxy/kroxylicious-operator/releases/2025/11/06/release-0_17_1.html

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.

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KroxyliciousAug 8, 2025
Mickael MaisonAug 1, 2025
If you had told me 7.5 years ago I'd be publishing 90 Monthly Digests, or even just still work on Kafka all this time, I'd thought you were crazy!
But here we are (maybe it's me who's crazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), I just published the 90th edition covering July 2025:
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/08/01/kafka-monthly-digest-july-2025
Kafka Monthly Digest: July 2025 | Red Hat Developer

This edition of the Kafka Monthly Digest covers the Apache Kafka releases in progress, 4.1.0 and 4.0.1. It also looks at the new KIPs, community project releases and blog posts from July 2025

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KroxyliciousAug 8, 2025

📣 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

https://kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxylicious-proxy/kroxylicious-operator/releases/2025/08/07/release-0_14_0.html

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.

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KroxyliciousMay 12, 2025

Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! https://kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxylicious/releases/2025/05/09/release-0_12_0.html

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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.

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KroxyliciousApr 22, 2025
Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus_fdn family https://kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2025/04/22/announce-commonhaus-membership.html
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 around and build your production infrastructure upon.

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KroxyliciousApr 1, 2025
New Release: https://kroxylicious.io/releases/junit5-extension/kafka4.0/2025/04/01/release-0_11_0-junit-extension.html our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
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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 maintained - including support for Kafka clusters with based Zookeeper controllers. Just put the version of Kafka you want to use on the classpath - and everything else is automatic.

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