Aerospike Connect for Kafka Inbound release notes
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.