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Kroxylicious, the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®
Kroxylicious is pleased to announce that 0.17.1[1] is now generally available!

This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.

We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0

[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Kroxylicious release 0.17.1
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.17.1. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
We are discussing a proposal to release Kroxylicious 1.0.0. The aims are:

- Move to 1.0.0 to signal production-readiness
- Stronger API/config stability guarantees until 2.0.0
- Policy for patch releases

We'd welcome feedback on the proposal bit.ly/4od83s9
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We are happy to announce the release of Kroxylicious v0.17.0 bit.ly/4oGt3HG. The main improvements in this release: the project is now based on Netty 4.2 and the project now publishes a Maven archetype, making it easy to start writing your own filter implementation.
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 bit.ly/3IpOflV. Main changes bit.ly/4o3Eby5 are Kafka 4.1 compatibility and observabilty improvements. Happy proxying🐊.
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Kroxylicious 0.15.0 released

This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Kroxylicious release 0.15.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.15.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
📣 Kroxylicious 0.14.0
- new AuthN APIs (more to come here)
- new metrics for tracking network stalls
- Fixing support for encrypting messages over 1mb (we don't judge the messages we proxy...)
- Better support for negotiating protocol versions
kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
Kroxylicious release 0.14.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.14.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
August 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.13.0. bit.ly/4efdZws

The big news - the first release of the Kroxylicious with an Operator. If you are deploying Kroxylicious to Kubernetes we hope this will simplify your life. Check it out. Feedback welcome.
June 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It’s great to see someone organically recognise the value of Record Encryption. mostafahussein.medium.com/kafka-encryp...
Kafka Encryption for Cardholder Data: Solving PCI Challenges with Kroxylicious
Encrypt Kafka messages at rest without changing app code — using Kroxylicious and OpenBao to meet PCI encryption requirements.
mostafahussein.medium.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Gunnar’s not wrong…
🐊 Kroxylicious Proposal: "Routing API"

This looks like a very useful addition to @kroxylicious.io (wire-protocol proxy for Apache Kafka): dynamic routing of requests to different upstream clusters, enabling use cases such as union clusters and client-based routing.

👉 github.com/kroxylicious...
June 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

#apacheKafka
Kroxylicious release 0.12.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.12.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
May 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.12.0. bit.ly/4k6HnGZ

The main changes - Apache Kafka 4.0.0 compatibility and a changes to the defaults affecting downstream mTLS connections.
May 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun... our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
kroxylicious-junit5-extension release 0.11.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.11.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 4.0. Support for earlier versions of Kafka is maintain...
kroxylicious.io
April 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. bit.ly/4iCP0nZ

The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.
Kroxylicious release 0.11.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We’ve been spotted swimming in the wild. callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!
Kroxylicious, Kafka Record Encryption and the Power of Proxies | Callista
Callista Enterprise - seniora IT-arkitekter och systemutvecklare inom Java, öppen källkod, agil utveckling och systemintegration
callistaenterprise.se
February 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The Kroxylicious project is as pleased as always to announce v0.10.0 kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli....

This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager
Kroxylicious release 0.10.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.10.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
kroxylicious.io
February 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Just in time for the holidays Kroxylicious 0.9.0 is available from all reputable sources of Jars.
Now with added #ApacheKafka 3.9 support!

Full details at: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Kroxylicious release 0.9.0
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.9.0. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 3.9.
kroxylicious.io
December 17, 2024 at 10:22 PM