Yandex Managed Service for Apache Kafka® release notes

September 2025September 2025

• Added a new service role, managed-kafka.interfaceUser, that enables you to use the 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)
• ZooKeeper is supported by clusters with Apache Kafka® 3.6 to 3.9 (inclusive).

August 2025August 2025

• Built-in support for the Kafka UI web interface 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 the ability to migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft hosts.
• Added the ability to sync 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 commited volumes 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 Technical maintenance section to the management console.

March 2025March 2025

• Added support for the new Apache Kafka® 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. These versions are available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about revisions, see the Apache Kafka® documentation.
• Starting March 1, 2025, support for Apache Kafka® versions 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 increase of disk size. In the cluster settings, the user can set the disk storage usage threshold and maximum disk size. Upon reaching the threshold, the disk size will automatically increase in fixed increments up to its maximum. You can choose to immediately increase the disk size or to increase it during the next maintenance window.

March 2024March 2024

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

Q4 2023Q4 2023

New Apache Kafka® version 3.5.1 is available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about revisions, see the Apache Kafka® 3.5.0 documentation and the Apache Kafka® 3.5.1 documentation.

Q2 2023Q2 2023

New Apache Kafka® version 3.4 is available in the PRODUCTION environment. For more information about revisions, see the Apache Kafka® documentation.

Q1 2023Q1 2023

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

Q4 2022Q4 2022

• Added support for the Sasl enabled mechanisms setting that allows specifying 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.
• Improved the performance of transactions to modify user privileges for a large number 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 on Intel Ice Lake.
• Fixed the kafka_group_topic_partition_lag metric calculation. For more information, see the Yandex Monitoring metric reference.
• New Apache Kafka® version 3.2 is available in the PRODUCTION environment.

Q2 2022Q2 2022

• A new connector is now available: S3 Sink.
• New Apache Kafka® version 3.1 is available in the PRESTABLE and PRODUCTION environments.
• Added the ability to use an SSL certificate to connect to a cluster via the MirrorMaker connector.
• Added support for offline maintenance.
• Added the ability to configure public access to 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

A new version is available: Apache Kafka® 3.0.