Chapter 1. Features

AMQ Streams now supports Apache Kafka version 2.5.0.

AMQ Streams uses Kafka 2.5.0. Only Kafka distributions built by Red Hat are supported.

For upgrade instructions, see AMQ Streams and Kafka upgrades.

Refer to the Kafka 2.4.0 and Kafka 2.5.0 Release Notes for additional information.

For more information on supported versions, see the Red Hat AMQ 7 Component Details Page on the Customer Portal.

Kafka 2.5.0 requires ZooKeeper version 3.5.8. Therefore, the first step involved in upgrading to AMQ Streams 1.5 is to upgrade ZooKeeper to version 3.5.8, as described in AMQ Streams and Kafka upgrades.

Refer to the ZooKeeper 3.5.8 Release Notes for additional information. Note the changes to the configuration format introduced in ZooKeeper 3.5.7.

Support for MirrorMaker 2.0 moves out of Technology Preview to a generally available component of AMQ Streams.

MirrorMaker 2.0 is based on the Kafka Connect framework, with connectors managing the transfer of data between clusters.

MirrorMaker 2.0 uses:

MirrorMaker 2.0 introduces an entirely new way of replicating data in clusters. If you choose to use MirrorMaker 2.0, there is currently no legacy support, so any resources must be manually converted into the new format.

See Using AMQ Streams with MirrorMaker 2.0.

Red Hat Debezium is a distributed change data capture platform. It captures row-level changes in databases, creates change event records, and streams the records to Kafka topics. Debezium is built on Apache Kafka. You can deploy and integrate Debezium with AMQ Streams. Following a deployment of AMQ Streams, you deploy Debezium as a connector configuration through Kafka Connect. Debezium passes change event records to AMQ Streams on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Applications can read these change event streams and access the change events in the order in which they occurred.

Debezium has multiple uses, including:

Debezium provides connectors (based on Kafka Connect) for the following common databases:

For more information on deploying Debezium with AMQ Streams, refer to the product documentation.