Yandex Managed Service for Apache Kafka® release notes

June 2026June 2026

• Now you can change the disk type of broker hosts in a highly available cluster.
• Added support for Apache Kafka® 4.1 and 4.2. These versions are available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about the updates, see this Apache Kafka® guide.

May 2026May 2026

Disk encryption with a customer KMS key is now supported for hosts with local SSDs.

April 2026April 2026

• Added support for the Iceberg Sink connector.
• Updated the cluster monitoring page: added the Disk Metrics Details and Problematic partitions metric groups.
• Added support for local SSD storage for the AMD Zen 4 platform.
• Now you can manage the transactional.id.expiration.ms broker setting. For more information, see Cluster-level settings.

March 2026March 2026

Added separate roles to view and edit maintenance tasks: managed-kafka.maintenanceTask.viewer, managed-kafka.maintenanceTask.editor.

February 2026February 2026

• Added the ability to obtain the installed patch version of Apache Kafka® on the cluster.
• Added the ability to configure cluster access permissions.

December 2025December 2025

• Added support for the all-new Apache Kafka® 4.0. This version is available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about the updates, see this Apache Kafka® guide.
• Added disk encryption with a custom KMS key.

November 2025November 2025

Kafbat UI is now used for Kafka UI.

October 2025October 2025

• Added new metrics: can_read, can_write, kafka_topic_partition_low_water_mark, and kafka_topic_partition_high_water_mark.
• Added new host classes: AMD Zen 4 and AMD Zen 4 HighFreq.

September 2025September 2025

• Added a new service role, managed-kafka.interfaceUser, that allows using Kafka UI.
• Added the option to select a coordination service when creating a cluster:
  • ZooKeeper (on separate hosts)
  • KRaft (combined mode)
  • KRaft (on separate hosts)
• Added support for ZooKeeper in clusters running Apache Kafka® 3.6 to 3.9, inclusive.

August 2025August 2025

• Built-in support for Kafka UI is now available in the Kazakhstan region.
• Added new user roles for managing Apache Kafka® cluster resources: ACCESS_ROLE_TOPIC_PRODUCER, ACCESS_ROLE_TOPIC_CONSUMER, ACCESS_ROLE_SCHEMA_READER, and ACCESS_ROLE_SCHEMA_WRITER.
• Added support for migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft hosts.
• Added support for syncing data from Apache Kafka® topics to an Object Storage bucket without using the internet.
• Changed the limit for the amount of broker data when using SSD network storage. The new limit is 32,768 GB.

July 2025July 2025

• Added built-in support for Kafka UI in clusters.
• Now you can get a discount for committed volume of services in KRaft.
• Added the version update policy.
• Added a new user role, ACCESS_ROLE_TOPIC_ADMIN, for managing topics.

May 2025May 2025

Added the Maintenance section to the management console.

March 2025March 2025

• Added support for Apache Kafka® 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. These versions are available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about the updates, see this Apache Kafka® guide.
• Starting March 1, 2025, support for Apache Kafka® 2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 is discontinued. You cannot create a cluster with these versions.

July 2024July 2024

Added automatic disk expansion. In the cluster settings, the user can set the disk storage usage threshold and maximum disk size. Upon reaching the threshold, the disk will automatically expand in fixed increments up to its maximum. You can choose to immediately expand the disk or to expand it during the next maintenance window.

March 2024March 2024

Now you can change the availability zone for Managed Service for Apache Kafka® clusters.

Q4 2023Q4 2023

New Apache Kafka® 3.5.1 is available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about the updates, see this Apache Kafka® 3.5.0 guide and this Apache Kafka® 3.5.1 guide.

Q2 2023Q2 2023

New Apache Kafka® 3.4 is available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about the updates, see this Apache Kafka® guide.

Q1 2023Q1 2023

New Apache Kafka® 3.3 is available in the PRODUCTION environment.

Q4 2022Q4 2022

• Added support for configuring SASL enabled mechanisms to set encryption mechanisms available when connecting to a cluster.
• Users with the admin role can now delete consumer groups.
• The S3 Sink connector is now available in the CLI.

Q3 2022Q3 2022

• Added support for managing connectors in the CLI with the yc managed-kafka connector command and MirrorMaker connectors with the yc managed-kafka connector-mirrormaker command.
• Optimized user permission changes for large numbers of topics.
• The Message max bytes, Offsets retention minutes, Replica fetch max bytes, and Ssl cipher suites settings are now supported.
• Added the ability to create a cluster on local disks using Intel Ice Lake.
• Fixed the kafka_group_topic_partition_lag metric calculation. For more information, see the Yandex Monitoring metric reference.
• New Apache Kafka® 3.2 is available in the PRODUCTION environment.

Q2 2022Q2 2022

• A new connector is now available: S3 Sink.
• New Apache Kafka® 3.1 is available in the PRESTABLE and PRODUCTION environments.
• Added support for uploading an SSL certificate for MirrorMaker cluster connections.
• Added support for offline maintenance.
• Added support for changing public access settings in the CLI.
• Prohibited the use of the preallocate flag causing CorruptRecordException (see the KAFKA-13664 ticket).
• Added support for standard compression (zstd) for a schema registry.

Q1 2022Q1 2022

The new Apache Kafka® version is out: 3.0.