KSQL 7.6.0.0 (EEP 9.3.0) Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Kafka.
Version 7.6.0.0
Release Date July 2024
HPE Version Interoperability See EEP Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/ksql
GitHub Release Tag 7.6.0.0-eep-930
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names See Package Names for Ecosystem Packs (EEPs).

New in This Release

KSQL 7.6.0.0 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:
  • New Confluent KSQL release ported - 7.6.0
  • Bug fixes
  • CVE fixes

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:
GitHub Commit Number Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Fix Number and Description
f5c2e95a7f6 2024-06-26 KAFKA-1051 Update jetty* to 9.4.54.v20240208
7c2c7199838 2024-06-12 KAFKA-1042 Specify new package dependencies in kafka components in EEP-9.3.0
7f69bfebc31 2024-05-30 KAFKA-1055 KSQL NPM dependencies reported by OWASP scan
065f24230b0 2024-04-15 KAFKA-1037 Topic name is invalid: the length of topic is longer than the max allowed length 249
63601fab2ad 2024-03-06 KAFKA-1021 Port EEP specific changes to ksql 7.6.0
For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in Github.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • You cannot upgrade KSQL from 4.x to 5.x/6.x versions; you must uninstall KSQL 4.x and then install the newer version.
  • Concurrent queries on a table can result in a null pointer exception.
  • The SHOW TOPICS command does not print information about active consumers and consumer groups.
  • MAPR-KAFKA-437: Dropping streams/tables may take up to five minutes. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”
  • MAPR-KAFKA-427: KSQL server periodically responds with a 403 code only. This issue is caused by MS-915: “MapR Stream application hangs inside cycle”

Resolved Issues

  • None.