What’s New in Redpanda Connect

This topic includes new content added from version 4.29.0 onwards.

For a full list of product updates, and details of updates prior to version 4.29.0, see the Redpanda Connect release notes. For new Cloud-specific features, see What’s New in Redpanda Cloud.

Version 4.38.0

This update includes the beta release of two new outputs for Cloud and Self-Managed, and the introduction of a telemetry service, which collects and sends anonymized usage statistics to Redpanda.

New tooling

A new Helm chart for deploying Redpanda Connect in Kubernetes is now available. This chart simplifies the deployment and configuration of Redpanda Connect, allowing you to manage and scale Redpanda Connect instances in Kubernetes environments.

To get started with the Helm chart, see Get Started with the Redpanda Connect Helm Chart.

Or, see the release notes for the chart on GitHub.

New outputs (beta)

Component updates

This release adds:

Other changes:

  • The collection field of the mongodb output now supports interpolation functions.

  • All components that used the deprecated count function, with a default value for the path field, now use the counter function.

    If you have multiple components that execute a mapping using the deprecated count function with the original default value, and these counters need to cascade, there may be a change in behavior. To avoid this, explicitly define a value for the path field.

Version 4.37.0

Redpanda Connect has new bundled Redpanda Migrator components, more AI processors for Self-Managed and Cloud platforms, and three new outputs.

Redpanda Migrator components (beta)

You can now move workloads from any Apache Kafka system to Redpanda using the redpanda_migrator_bundle input and output.

For full details, see the Redpanda Migrator Cookbook for Self-Managed and Cloud.

AI processors (beta)

Some new additions to Redpanda Connect’s growing list of AI processors:

Certified and community outputs (beta)

Component updates

This release adds:

Version 4.36.0

You can now use the replication_factor_override and replication_factor fields of the redpanda_migrator input and output to set a replication factor for migrated topics.

Versions 4.35.1 to 4.35.3

Redpanda Connect is now fully integrated with the Redpanda Cloud platform. This release adds Azure and GCP components to the growing list of available components. For a full list of components supported in Redpanda Cloud, see the Connector Catalog.

Version 4.35.0

Redpanda Connect now includes beta versions of Redpanda Migrator components:

For full details, see the Redpanda Migrator Cookbook for Self-Managed and Cloud.

Component updates

This release adds:

Version 4.34.0

Redpanda Connect now includes beta versions of two new AI processors for Cloud and Self-Managed platforms:

Version 4.33.0

Redpanda Connect now includes beta versions of the following components for Self-Managed and Cloud platforms:

You can also use the new Bloblang vector method to create vector embeddings for SQL databases.

Component updates

This release adds:

  • The credentials_json field to all GCP components.

  • The content_md5 field to the aws_s3 output.

  • The send_ack field to the nats input.

Version 4.32.1

Redpanda Connect has a new batch of beta AI processors for Self-Managed and Cloud platforms.

For Self-Managed only

Version 4.31.0

Redpanda Connect now includes beta versions of two new components:

Component updates

This release adds:

Version 4.30.0 to 4.30.1

Redpanda Connect now includes a beta version of the splunk input.

Version 4.29.0

Redpanda Connect now separates packages into an enterprise bundle and a free bundle, which contains community and selected certified connectors. To learn more about licensing and support levels, see Connector Support Levels.

Component updates

This release adds: