v1.14.4

Changes

New Features

• OIDC support:
  • Authenticate requests in case target has an OIDC audience set (#3677, @creydr)
  • Expose the OIDC Audience of a KafkaChannel in its status (#3622, @creydr)
  • Create KafkaSources OIDC service account and expose in its status (#3660, @creydr)
  • Reject requests for wrong OIDC audience (#3675, @creydr)
  • Support auto generation of Triggers identity service account and expose in AuthStatus (#3604, @xiangpingjiang)
  • Adding cache mechanism to OIDC JWT token (#3663, @Leo6Leo)
• Kafka control plane connections are now pooled, rather than recreated. (#3493, @Cali0707)
• EventType Autocreate now works for the Eventing Kafka Broker and Eventing Kafka Channel (#3585, @Cali0707)
• Auto created topics by brokers now support the full set of topic config options, set them by using the prefix default.topic.config. in your kafka-broker-config configmap. (#3671, @Cali0707)
• The kafka-broker-dispatcher StatefulSet now scales with KEDA if you enable the controller-autoscaler-keda feature flag (#3813, @Cali0707)

Bug or Regression

• the scale subresource is now correctly defined for consumergroups (#3666, @Cali0707)
• triggers now correctly generate the consumer group id from the template, rather than just the default template (#3779, @Cali0707)

Uncategorized

• Bump strimzi to 0.40.0 and kafka to 3.7.0 (#3768, @matzew)
• Triggers for Kafka brokers (but not namespaced brokers) now use consumergroups internally. ( ⚠️ for downgrade information, check #3558) (#3558, @Cali0707)