Your data operations are getting heavier. More clusters, demanding partners, tighter policies, and more apps. With this release, Conduktor makes it easier to share data externally at scale, enforce data quality in-stream, and simplify application governance, so you can stay focused on outcomes, not overhead.

Clearer Governance, Less Overhead with Conduktor Scale

Running Kafka at enterprise scale means managing hundreds of apps, users, and resources without losing control. With this release, Scale gets smarter and more intuitive, giving teams full lifecycle control and better visibility across applications.

Simplified Access Control for Your Applications

Self-service application groups now come with full lifecycle management to provide tighter governance with far less manual overhead.

• New members tab: a clean UI for a better experience to add and manage group members.

• Resource access tab: granular permissions across topics, consumer groups, subjects, and connectors, for a more precise access management.

• External mapping: align application groups with user groups for consistent, centralized access control.

The External Groups UI has also been enhanced for mapping external authentication groups, making it easier for administrators to configure and maintain user access patterns.

Regex-based group assignment is supported for both user groups and application groups, giving enterprises a more flexible and consistent way to manage access across large, federated environments.

Organizations can now dynamically map users from identity providers into the right application groups, automatically and at scale.

Better Resource Visibility for Reliable Operations

Application instances now include a resources tab: a single view of all associated resources. Teams gain a detailed picture of dependencies, usage, and relationships, helping them spot issues early and keep operations reliable.

Flexible Schema Strategies for Faster Innovation

We’ve added support for Confluent subject strategies directly in the produce page for topics. That means more flexibility in how schemas are referenced and organized when producing messages, without forcing a one-size-fits-all naming convention.

All these updates make Scale a stronger control plane for Kafka, with clearer governance, faster onboarding, and the flexibility to adapt as your organization matures.

Define and Enforce Better Data Quality Policies Faster

This release brings some big updates into Conduktor Trust that make data quality policies both more precise and easier to build.

Actionable Data Quality Enforcement: Mark, Don’t Just Block Violations

We continue expanding the functionality of our data quality engine. Now, the policies defined don’t just block violating messages, they can mark them instead. 

When this action is enabled, any message that violates your rules is tagged with a special header. This gives downstream systems full visibility into flagged data, making it easier to audit, route, or take automated action. No guesswork. No silent drops.

Keep Bad JSON Out of Your Streams

Malformed JSON or inconsistent structures can break dashboards, pipelines, and ML models.
With JSON Schema Rules, Trust now validates the structure and content of every JSON message in real time:

• Check fields, types, and structure against your defined schema.

• Decide how to handle violations: log them, tag them, or block them entirely.

• Enforce structure without needing a Schema Registry.

This gives you the flexibility of JSON with the rigor of schema governance, ensuring only good data moves forward. Learn more about this capability in our blog.

Fast, Error-Free Rule Creation with New Regex Library

Our data quality rule creation interface now offers a regex library with pre-built examples you can apply when creating new rules. It speeds up configuration, lowers errors, and helps teams enforce policies consistently, even if they’re not regex experts.

Unlock Cross-Cluster Data Sharing Without Redundancy

As more companies turn to Kafka as the backbone of real-time operations, Conduktor Exchange makes it radically easier to expose the right data to the right external consumers, securely, at scale, and without re-architecting your stack.

Partner Zones, our capability to easily create isolated environments for granting external stakeholders access to selected Kafka topics only, is now generally available, which means it’s fully supported, stable, enterprise-tested, and production-ready. And precisely, because in real life enterprise data doesn’t live in one place, in this release we bring a powerful new capability: multi-cluster support behind a single Gateway (Conduktor's proxy).

You can now create Partner Zones across any Kafka cluster configured in Gateway, without spinning up multiple proxies or duplicating infrastructure. Reduce complexity, accelerate onboarding, and scale with control.

Governed, Self-Served, and Ready for What’s Next

This release is a big step toward a future where data governance and self-service work together, not against each other. Conduktor now makes it simple to share data securely, enforce rules transparently, and manage applications at scale.

Ready to see it in action? Log in to explore the new features or talk to us to get access to Exchange and Trust. Book a demo today.

For a full list of what’s included in this month’s release, you can read the release notes.