Kroxylicious is the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®.
See how it works in 3 minutes:
youtu.be/xLOjKScpJ3Q
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Kroxylicious is a growing project so we are looking to scale things up, check out our latest blog post for the full details kroxylicious.io/2026/03/04/e...
Kroxylicious is a growing project so we are looking to scale things up, check out our latest blog post for the full details kroxylicious.io/2026/03/04/e...
As always the Kroxylicious team are very pleased to announce the release the 0.19.0 release (kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...).
Kroxylicious will now bite down on Kafka 4.2 RPC calls, snack on idle connections and other quality of life improvements.
New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun.... We’ve refreshed our dependencies, including an essential upgrade to Apache Kafka 4.2.0. We’ve also smoothed out the setup process, ensuring the new Kafka Queues feature works seamlessly straight out of the box.
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The Kroxylicious projects is excited to announce v0.18.0.
This release focused on supporting authentication both from the broker and in proxy!
Release announcement: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
GitHub: github.com/kroxylicious...
Maven Central: central.sonatype.com/search?q=g:i...
The Kroxylicious projects is excited to announce v0.18.0.
This release focused on supporting authentication both from the broker and in proxy!
Release announcement: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
GitHub: github.com/kroxylicious...
Maven Central: central.sonatype.com/search?q=g:i...
Kroxylicious is pleased to announce that 0.17.1[1] is now generally available!
This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.
We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0
[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
We are discussing a proposal to release Kroxylicious 1.0.0. The aims are:
- Move to 1.0.0 to signal production-readiness
- Stronger API/config stability guarantees until 2.0.0
- Policy for patch releases
We'd welcome feedback on the proposal bit.ly/4od83s9
We are happy to announce the release of Kroxylicious v0.17.0 bit.ly/4oGt3HG. The main improvements in this release: the project is now based on Netty 4.2 and the project now publishes a Maven archetype, making it easy to start writing your own filter implementation.
Ohh that’s news to us. Any recommendations for an alternative?
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 bit.ly/3IpOflV. Main changes bit.ly/4o3Eby5 are Kafka 4.1 compatibility and observabilty improvements. Happy proxying🐊.
Kroxylicious 0.15.0 released
This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
📣 Kroxylicious 0.14.0
- new AuthN APIs (more to come here)
- new metrics for tracking network stalls
- Fixing support for encrypting messages over 1mb (we don't judge the messages we proxy...)
- Better support for negotiating protocol versions
kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.13.0. bit.ly/4efdZws
The big news - the first release of the Kroxylicious with an Operator. If you are deploying Kroxylicious to Kubernetes we hope this will simplify your life. Check it out. Feedback welcome.
It’s great to see someone organically recognise the value of Record Encryption. mostafahussein.medium.com/kafka-encryp...
Gunnar’s not wrong…
Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
#apacheKafka
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.12.0. bit.ly/4k6HnGZ
The main changes - Apache Kafka 4.0.0 compatibility and a changes to the defaults affecting downstream mTLS connections.
Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...
New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun... our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. bit.ly/4iCP0nZ
The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.
We’ve been spotted swimming in the wild. callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!
The Kroxylicious project is as pleased as always to announce v0.10.0 kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli....
This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager
Just in time for the holidays Kroxylicious 0.9.0 is available from all reputable sources of Jars.
Now with added #ApacheKafka 3.9 support!
Full details at: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...
We look forward to hearing your feedback.
We’d like to join the fun too! Proxying Kafka definitely counts as data streaming right 🐊
You rang?!
We don't have rate-limiting out of the box, though we'd happily support someone contributing a filter.
We work quite hard not to mess with protocol semantics to be as transparent to clients as possible so we have no effect on ordering. Not sure what you mean by overflow...
