Release Notes¶

Note

London, UK - March 19, 2020, Lenses 3.1 is now generally available

If you are upgrading from an older version, make sure to check the Upgrade Notes.

What’s New¶

Connections Lenses provides a connection manager in order to securely manage connection details for external services.
Alerts integrations with external services Lenses supports secure channels configuration to allow you fine tuned alerts routing. Integration supports Slack, PagerDuty, DataDog, Alert Manager, CloudWatch and Webhook.
Lenses schema editing Users are now able to edit the topics metadata, such as Topic schema and Schema types resulting to increased flexibility for non Avro formats.
Increase topic partitions Ability to increase the amount of partitions per topic directly through the Topics screen, or by CLI.
Elasticsearch Integration - Preview Feature: SQL on Elasticsearch data. Integration with Elasticsearch connections to enrich the experience when creating end-to-end streaming pipelines to elastic. Create Elasticsearch connections, see inside the indices, run SQL queries on data, get information about the cluster health
SAML Single Sign On (SSO) authentication support for Azure
Manage consumer offsets for multiple partitions at once, choose between current earliest or latest offset, or specific date and time.

All users of BASIC authentication type are able to change their own passwords directly inside Lenses application.
Improve the user experience in the connectors list page by adding filters by type/state and adding pagination.
UX revamp of Lenses SQL Studio. Cleaner UX, multiple tabs and keyboard shortcuts are introduced.

Note

London, UK - April, 2020 Lenses 3.1.1 is now generally available

SQL performance increase
SQL CAST function now allows to change Timestamp to Long CAST(_meta.timestamp as LONG)
SQL CAST function now allows to change INT/LONG to Timestamp CAST(fieldA as TIMESTAMP)
Improve logs output when we the configuration files exist but we cannot read them (e.g permissions issue)

Display the retention bytes or milliseconds as infinite when the topic config is -1 (Infinite)
Do not ignore a retention.ms value of -1 when creating a topic
Do not override brokers metrics settings in lenses.conf with the autodetected values from Zookeeper
Topology - external apps will now visible without requiring ViewSQLProcessors permission
Do not overflow audit logs with k8s secrets updates initiated by Lenses instead of user or service accounts
Fix issue with search and pagination in Groups and Connections pages
Fix issue when upgrading from 3.0.x, some clients get JdbcSQLDataException: Value too long for column
Remove timestamp filters from ElasticSearch screen as they are Kafka specific feature

Note

London, UK - May, 2020 Lenses 3.1.2 is now generally available