Kafka Streams 3.6.1.200 (EEP 9.4.0) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Kafka. See Apache Kafka 3.6.1 and Apache Kafka Streams homepage for more information.
Version 3.6.1.200
Release Date April 2025
HPE Version Interoperability See EEP Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/kafka/
GitHub Release Tag 3.6.1.200-eep-940
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names See https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/62/EcosystemRN/MEPPkgNames.html.

New in This Release

Kafka Streams 3.6.1.200 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:
  • CVE fixes (particularly backported CVE-2024-31141)
  • SSO support

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
GitHub Commit Number Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Fix Number and Description
90e126eb4c 2025-03-17 KAFKA-1099 CVEs in Kafka, Kafka REST & Schema Registry EEP-9.4.0 builds
47dc21e516 2025-03-07 KAFKA-1094 Use all authentication types in MultiMechsAuthenticationHandler by default
87259ab28f 2025-03-06 MFS-20826 Security::Kafka:: CVEs reported as part of the kafka-3.6.1/libs
50a850ed89 2024-03-05 KAFKA-1092 Kafka-client is vulnerable by CVE-2024-31141
For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • Transactions are not supported.
  • Pattern subscription is not supported.
  • The application reset tool hangs if it runs when the Kafka Streams application is running.
  • The application reset tool may throw a Null Pointer Exception when the date or duration parameter is used.
  • The application reset tool does not reset to intermediate offset if the topic has multiple partitions.
  • MAPR-KAFKA-581: Stream hangs in rebalancing state. The workaround is to set a larger timeout. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”

Resolved Issues

Resolved issues refer to issues that were addressed and fixed from the previous EEP release.

  • None.