Chapter 6. Enhancements

The Strimzi Quotas plugin moves to GA (General Availability). Use the plugin properties to set throughput and storage limits on brokers in your Kafka cluster configuration.

For more information, see Setting limits on brokers using the Kafka Static Quota plugin.

When finalizers are enabled (default), the Topic Operator no longer restores them on unmanaged KafkaTopic resources if removed. This behavior aligns with paused topics, where finalizers are also not restored.

The technology preview of the ContinueReconciliationOnManualRollingUpdateFailure feature gate moves to beta stage and is enabled by default. If required, ContinueReconciliationOnManualRollingUpdateFailure can be disabled in the feature gates configuration in the Cluster Operator.

Pods are now rolled only when the cluster CA key is replaced, not when the clients CA key is replaced, which is used solely for trust. Consequently, the restart event reason ClientCaCertKeyReplaced has been removed, and either CaCertRenewed or CaCertHasOldGeneration is now used as the event reason.

Rolling updates for new CA certificate generations now resume from where they left off after an interruption, instead of restarting the process and rolling all pods again.