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Release Blog 2025.4 - The Winter Release

Axual 2025.4, the Winter Release, expands on the governance and self-service foundations of 2025.3 with improved KSML monitoring and state management, an enhanced Schema Catalog, and usability improvements across Self-Service and the platform.

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Release blog 2025.3 - The Autumn Release

Axual 2025.3 release introduces KSML 1.1 integration for automated stream processing deployment, group-based resource filtering for multi-team governance, and experimental MCP Server for AI-driven platform operations. Includes JSON schema support, Protobuf processing (beta), and enhanced audit tracking for enterprise Kafka implementations.

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Release blog 2025.2 - The Summer Release

The Axual 2025.2 summer release delivers targeted improvements for enterprise-grade Kafka deployments. In this post, we walk through the latest updates—from enhanced audit tracking and OAuth support in the REST Proxy to smarter stream processing controls in KSML. These features are designed to solve the real-world governance, security, and operational challenges enterprises face when scaling Kafka across teams and systems.

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Joey Compeer
April 13, 2023
Axual launches Axual Governance to help organizations turn Kafka into a competitive advantage
Axual launches Axual Governance to help organizations turn Kafka into a competitive advantage

Axual Governance is now available - data governance & self-service for any Kafka.

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Richard Bosch
March 31, 2023
How are you managing Kafka? How the Axual ownership model makes your job easier
How are you managing Kafka? How the Axual ownership model makes your job easier

Apache Kafka has become the default solution when it comes to enabling event streaming. Operating an Apache Kafka deployment and managing connections and content can interrupt development processes and slow up time. In this blog we explain how the Axual approach to ownership helps to speed up the development of new topics and applications.

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Jurre Robertus
February 22, 2023
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. This new way of using data has a lot of use cases. In this blog we explore how industry 4.0 can benefit from Apache Kafka®

Apache Kafka for Business
Joris Meijer
January 20, 2023
Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release
Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release

Enriched topic graph, stream insights, stream browse access control and more. Read more about all the exciting stuff that we've shipped in this release.

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Jurre Robertus
January 12, 2023
Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization
Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. In this blog we explore how role-based access control and attribute-based access control enables the use of Kafka® enterprise wide.

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Jurre Robertus
November 23, 2022
Use cases for Apache Kafka: How can you add business value?
Use cases for Apache Kafka: How can you add business value?

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. This new way of using data has a lot of use cases.

Apache Kafka Use Cases
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