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Aerospike Connect for Kafka Inbound release notes

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.9

September 29, 2025 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Improvements

Added support for Debian 13 “Trixie” [CONNECTOR-1215]

Security

Fixed - Aerospike Connectors - Security vulnerabilities - CVE-2025-58056, CVE-2025-58057, CVE-2025-58060, CVE-2025-58364 [CONNECTOR-1272]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.8

August 25, 2025 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

New Features

Enhance JMS-Inbound & Kafka-Inbound connectors to reload TLS context on changes to TLS files to connect to destination Aerospike DB. [CONNECTOR-1254]

Security

Fixed - Aerospike Connectors - Security vulnerabilities - CVE-2025-8916, CVE-2025-8058, CVE-2025-7425, CVE-2025-6965, CVE-2025-5914, CVE-2025-32415, CVE-2025-32414, CVE-2022-29458. [CONNECTOR-1262]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.7

July 28, 2025 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Fixed - Aerospike Connectors - Security vulnerabilities - CVE-2024-12718, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4435, CVE-2025-4517, CVE-2025-6020, CVE-2025-6021, CVE-2025-30749, CVE-2025-47273, CVE-2025-48924, CVE-2025-49794, CVE-2025-49796, CVE-2025-50106. [CONNECTOR-1253]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.6

June 19, 2025 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Fixed - Aerospike Connectors - Security vulnerabilities - CVE-2025-0395, CVE-2025-3576, CVE-2025-4802, CVE-2024-8176, CVE-2024-12133, CVE-2024-12243, CVE-2025-32414, CVE-2025-48734. [CONNECTOR-1236]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.5

March 03, 2025 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

New Features

Allow user to provide password in Credentials as string in Kafka inbound connector. [CONNECTOR-1182]
Use sendTimeout as configured without doubling. [CONNECTOR-1183]
Converted transaction debug level messages to trace level. [CONNECTOR-1184]
Kotlin version upgraded to 2.x. [CONNECTOR-1185]

Security

Updated logback-core to 1.5.15 version to fix CVE-2024-12798, CVE-2024-12801. [CONNECTOR-1175]
Updated logback-core to 1.5.15 version to fix CVE-2024-12801. [CONNECTOR-1179]
Updated logback-classic to 1.5.15 version to fix CVE-2024-12798. [CONNECTOR-1180]
Updated logback-core to 1.5.15 version to fix CVE-2024-12798. [CONNECTOR-1181]
Updated io.netty:netty-handler to 4.1.118.Final to fix CVE-2025-24970, CVE-2025-25193, CVE-2024-29025, CVE-2024-47554, CVE-2023-46120 (rabbitmq), CVE-2024-51504 (zookeeper). [CONNECTOR-1188]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.4

January 07, 2025 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Updated logback-core to 1.5.15 version to fix CVE-2024-12798, CVE-2024-12801. [CONNECTOR-1175]
Updated kafka-clients to 3.9.0 version to fix CVE-2024-56128. [CONNECTOR-1175]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.3

June 09, 2024 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Fix Improper Input Validation. [CONNECTOR-982]
Fix Infinite loop. [CONNECTOR-983]
Fix Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. [CONNECTOR-984]
Fix Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities. [CONNECTOR-1022]
Fix Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities. [CONNECTOR-1023]
Fix Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities. [CONNECTOR-1024]
Fix Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities. [CONNECTOR-1025]
Fix Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities. [CONNECTOR-1026]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.2

March 26, 2024 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Improvements

Upgraded a few dependencies.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.1

November 17, 2023 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Update Transitive dependency in Kafka inbound to fix CVE-2023-43642. [CONNECTOR-888]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 3.0.0

August 09, 2023 | Download

Breaking change - Custom transformers will not be able to write Java runtime serialized objects as bins to target Aerospike cluster.
ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Address CVE-2023-36480 - upgrade to aerospike-java-client version 7.0.0. [CONNECTOR-775]
Remove process-as-aerospike-records option from Kafka Inbound. [CONNECTOR-780]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.2.4

July 21, 2023 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Security

Upgrade vulnerable dependencies. [CONNECTOR-716]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.2.3

May 19, 2023 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Improvements

Upgrade vulnerable dependencies. [CONNECTOR-679]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.2.2

October 29, 2022 | Download

ATTENTION: In future releases, Aerospike Kafka Inbound Connector will be renamed to aerospike-sink-connector.

Improvements

Fix CVE-2022-34917 in Kafka Connectors. [CONNECTOR-445]
- Upgraded Kafka client from 2.3.0 to 3.3.1.
- Upgraded a few dependencies.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.2.1

May 16, 2022 | Download

New Features

Maintain order of writes to Aerospike for the same Kafka key. [CONNECTOR-353]

Improvements

Limit the records queued up at the connector with max-queued-records configuration parameter. [CONNECTOR-354]
Add configuration parameter to control the number of threads used for converting Kafka records to Aerospike operations. [CONNECTOR-355]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.2.0

November 02, 2021 | Download

New Features

Add Boolean particle type support introduced in server 5.6. [CONNECTOR-185]
Add support for PKI authentication introduced in server 5.7. [CONNECTOR-280]
Add a new ignore-error-codes configuration to specify the set of Aerospike client write/delete errors to be ignored and considered as successfully processed. [CONNECTOR-302]

Improvements

Support handling of MessagePack format breaking changes introduced in Aerospike Kafka Outbound version 4.0.0, when consuming messages from Kafka written by Aerospike Kafka outbound in MessagePack format.
feature-key-file config deprecated, validate feature key directly from the Aerospike server. [CONNECTOR-301]

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.1.0

March 08, 2021 | Download

New Features

User can implement a message transformer to transform the Kafka message into an Aerospike operation.
Convert and write Aerospike Kafka Outbound Connector messages (in MessagePack format) to Aerospike.

Improvements

Extract Aerospike record digest from the Kafka message.

Bug Fixes

Close all resources on Sink task close.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.0.3

December 22, 2020 | Download

Confluent certified Aerospike Kafka Inbound connector.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.0.2

August 17, 2020 | Download

Shaded jar dependencies, like Netty, to avoid version conflicts when running within the Confluent platform.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 2.0.1

March 13, 2020 | Download

Guarantees on Kafka record consumption.
Support Aerospike TLS.
Support for delete operation.
Multiple options to pick values from key, value of Kafka record.
Aerospike record key not limited to Kafka record key, can be in Kafka record value as well.
Config option to specify task behavior on Kafka record parsing or conversion to Aerospike record errors.
Retry on any Aerospike errors on write.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 1.0.2

October 10, 2019 | Download

Aerospike Kafka Connector (Inbound)
- Added configurations for the Aerospike client.
- New configurations:
  - policy.max_connections_per_node
  - policy.max_commands_in_queue
- Allows tuning if encountering certain OOM issues https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55374695/how-to-fix-problem-with-max-connections-exceed.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 1.0.1

May 22, 2019 | Download

Inbound connector
- Ability to specify an aerospike user/password with the config variables aerospike.username and aerospike.password.

Connect for Kafka - Inbound 1.0.0

March 12, 2019 | Download

Initial GA release.

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