We’re excited to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.20.0! There’s been a lot of action, check out the full Changelog for everything including deprecations, changes, and removals. We also have a video guide to the release.
12:00am, 1 April 2026
Want to see how Kroxylicious simplifies Apache Kafka® governance? We’ve put together a 3-minute visual breakdown of where the proxy sits in your stack and the problems it solves.
12:00am, 9 March 2026
Hot on the heels of the release of Kroxylicious 0.19.0 we have some other news to share. We are excited to announce a shift in how we manage the project, partly based on the proven model used by the Apache Software Foundation.
11:00am, 4 March 2026
We’re excited to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.19.0! There’s a lot to dig into — check out the full Changelog for everything including deprecations, changes, and removals.
12:00am, 4 March 2026
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.15.0 release of our Junit5 Extension.
12:00am, 18 February 2026
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.14.0 release of our Junit5 Extension.
12:00am, 5 January 2026
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.18.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00am, 28 November 2025
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.13.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release replaces the Keytool-based certificate generator with an implementation backed by Netty Certificate Builder. This release deprecates the KeytoolCertificateGenerator class.
12:00am, 7 November 2025
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.
12:00pm, 6 November 2025
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.17.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00pm, 27 October 2025
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.16.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00pm, 30 September 2025
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.12.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 4.1, removes the deprecated @SaslPlainAuth annotation and enables Users to customize the names of topics automatically created by the extension.
12:00am, 16 September 2025
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.
12:00pm, 17 August 2025
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.
12:00pm, 7 August 2025
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.13.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00pm, 22 June 2025
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.
12:00am, 9 May 2025
The Kroxylicious team are pleased to announce the project is now part of the Commonhaus foundation. We believe this is an important step in providing a stable basis for you, our community, to build around and build your production infrastructure upon.
12:00am, 22 April 2025
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 maintained - including support for Kafka clusters with based Zookeeper controllers. Just put the version of Kafka you want to use on the classpath - and everything else is automatic.
12:00am, 1 April 2025
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.
12:00am, 17 March 2025
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.
12:00am, 30 January 2025
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.9.0. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 3.9.
12:00am, 17 December 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.10.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 3.9. Support for earlier versions of Kafka is maintained - just put the version of Kafka you want to use on the classpath - and everything else is automatic.
12:00am, 22 November 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.9.1 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release contains minor improvements, bugfixes, and dependency upgrades.
12:00am, 7 November 2024
Are you using the kroxylicious-junit5-extension to inject Kafka clusters into your integration tests? With Apache Kafka approaching the 4.0 milestone, we are looking for input to help decide the best way to manage the move to Kafka 4.0.
12:00am, 13 September 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.8.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00am, 29 August 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.7.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00am, 20 August 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.9.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release adds support creating Kafka clusters configured for SASL mechanisms such as ‘SCRAM-SHA-256’, ‘SCRAM-SHA-256’ and ‘OAUTHBEARER’. It also includes changes to be compatible with Kafka 3.8.0.
12:00am, 15 July 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.6.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00am, 7 June 2024
The Kroxylicious team has been out on the conference circuit this year talking about our efforts around Record Encryption:
- Tom was presenting at Kafka Summit London
- Keith was presenting at UK Systems Research Challenges Workshop - Slides
- Sam was presenting at Kafka Summit Bangalore - Slides
12:00am, 21 May 2024
Kroxylicious’s Encryption At Rest use-case was presented to the Eighth Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop. The well-received session(slides) went into the motivations for the use-case, the summarised the options for introducing encryption into Kafka and some of the challenges met when encrypting the Kafka Record.
11:00pm, 17 April 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.5.1. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
8:00pm, 10 April 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.5.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
12:00am, 13 March 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.8.1 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release fixes an incompatibility that was found testing the Apache Kafka 3.7 release candidates that prevented embedded test Kafka clusters from starting correctly.
12:00am, 12 January 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.4.1. This release is focused on fixing an issue where the proxy failed to preserve offsets while decrypting records. While we feel a little sheepish that our own testing (which we have improved at both unit and integration levels) for 0.4.0 missed it we got a great bug report from @giacomoa. Speaking of great bug reports this release also includes our first external contribution PR#849 from @luozhenyu which fixes an issue in the SASL authentication handling.
12:00am, 12 January 2024
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.4.0. The big news is this release includes our EnvelopeEncryption filter which provides an Encryption-at-Rest solution for Apache Kafka(tm) which is transparent to both clients and brokers. Also, this release includes binary artifact for the first time.
12:00am, 19 December 2023
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.8.0 release of our Junit5 Extension which corrects an issue that prevented test authors utilising Junit 5.0 Test Templates in consort with the features from the Kroxylicious Junit Extension such as @BrokerCluster. There are also depenedency updates as part of the release.
11:00am, 10 December 2023
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.7.0 release of our Junit5 Extension which adds the ability for test authors to automatically inject topics into their tests.
11:00am, 23 November 2023