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  • Jul 17, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Valkey™

    Aiven for Valkey™ 9.1 is here

    We’ve added support for Valkey 9.1, a release focused on new features and improvements for security, observability, performance, efficiency, and tooling.

    Key highlights

    • Security: database-level ACLs, Lua moved to a module, TLS improvements
    • Observability: main/IO thread usage metrics, JSON logging
    • Performance: new IO threading model, faster streams/sorted sets/GETs
    • Efficiency: reduced memory for strings and sorted sets, faster rehashing
    • New commands: HGETDEL, MSETEX, CLUSTERSCAN

    Default version

    Valkey 9.1 is now the default version for all new Aiven for Valkey services. Your currently running services on version 8.1 remain unaffected and will continue to operate normally.

  • Jul 14, 2026

      New
      Aiven for MySQL

    New advanced configuration parameters for Aiven for MySQL®

    Aiven for MySQL® now supports 16 new advanced configuration parameters. Users can configure persistent, service-wide global defaults for query behavior, InnoDB full-text search, and query optimizer settings.

    The new parameters are available through the Aiven Console, CLI, API, and Terraform, and span four categories:

    • Toggles: automatic_sp_privileges, innodb_optimize_fulltext_only, windowing_use_high_precision, end_markers_in_json
    • Bounded integers: max_execution_time, div_precision_increment, eq_range_index_dive_limit
    • InnoDB full-text search: innodb_ft_max_token_size, innodb_ft_enable_stopword, innodb_ft_user_stopword_table, innodb_ft_result_cache_limit, innodb_ft_num_word_optimize
    • Query optimizer: optimizer_switch, optimizer_prune_level, optimizer_search_depth, max_seeks_for_key

    For more information, see Advanced parameters for Aiven for MySQL®.

  • Jul 14, 2026

      Improved
      Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect

    Preferred availability zones for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect and MirrorMaker 2

    Aiven now supports configuring preferred availability zones for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect and MirrorMaker 2 services. This extends the existing preferred zones feature from Kafka to these services, giving you control over where service nodes are placed within a cloud region.

    Use preferred zones to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs, lower latency between service nodes and client applications, and meet workload placement requirements.

    To learn more, see Configure preferred availability zones.

  • Jul 13, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect

    Azure Key Vault secret provider for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect

    Added support for the Azure Key Vault secret provider in Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect. The Azure Key Vault provider reads secrets from Azure Key Vault and lets connector configurations reference them using ${PROVIDER_NAME:SECRET_KEY}.

    This keeps sensitive credentials, such as connection strings, API keys, and passwords, out of connector configuration files.

    You can configure the Azure Key Vault secret provider using the Aiven API, Aiven CLI, or Aiven Provider for Terraform.

    For more information, see Configure the Azure Key Vault secret provider.

  • Jul 10, 2026

      Improved
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    New Quick connect experience for Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Quick connect for Aiven for Apache Kafka® is now a single-page guided flow. It replaces the previous multi-step setup flow, reducing the steps needed to connect Kafka clients and tools.

    The updated flow brings topic setup, authentication, permissions, generated code, and project templates into one place, making it easier to test your service and start producing and consuming messages.

    For more information, see Connect to Aiven for Apache Kafka®.

  • Jul 8, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Switch classic Kafka topics to diskless topics (early availability)

    You can now switch an existing classic topic in Aiven for Apache Kafka® to a diskless topic without copying data or renaming the topic.

    The topic remains available during the switch. Records written before the switch remain readable from the classic topic log. Records written after the switch are stored in the diskless topic.

    Topics can be switched using the Aiven CLI or Aiven API. This feature is in early availability and is not enabled by default. To request access, contact your account team.

    To learn more, see Switch a classic topic to a diskless topic.

  • Jul 8, 2026

      Improved
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Karapace version 6.2.0

    Karapace has been updated to version 6.2.0 with improvements to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) support, REST proxy, Schema Registry, metrics, and JSON Schema compatibility.

    Improved

    • REST proxy can forward inbound OIDC bearer tokens to Schema Registry.
    • Schema Registry separates OIDC authentication and authorization for finer access control.

    Fixed

    • Fixed JSON Schema compatibility checks that use anyOf with type array shorthand.

    For more information, see the Karapace 6.2.0 release notes.

  • Jul 2, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Create diskless topics automatically with regular expressions

    You can now configure Aiven for Apache Kafka® to create new topics as diskless topics automatically when their names match regular expressions you configure. Use this feature when clients or tools can't set diskless.enable=true, reject unknown topic configurations, or create topics dynamically, such as Kafka Connect CDC connectors and MirrorMaker 2.

    Set up to 32 regular expressions in kafka_diskless.auto_diskless_topic_regexes using the Aiven API or Aiven CLI. Regular expressions apply only to new topics. Existing topics keep their current type, and internal Kafka topics and compacted topics are excluded.

    For more information, see Create diskless topics automatically using regular expressions.

  • Jul 2, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Preferred availability zones for Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    You can now configure preferred availability zones to control where Aiven places Aiven for Apache Kafka® service nodes within a cloud region.
    Use preferred availability zones to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs, better align brokers with client applications, and meet workload placement requirements.
    You can configure the preferred_zones setting in the Aiven Console, CLI, API, or Terraform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

    To learn more, see Configure preferred availability zones for Aiven for Apache Kafka®.