Welcome to IBM Event Automation!

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Event Streams

New to event streaming? Get started with event distribution by using the award-winning, enterprise-grade packaging of Apache Kafka from IBM that provides value-add services to assist in deploying and managing event streaming effectively across organizations at scale.

Event Endpoint Management

Looking to share event data and make event discovery easy? Describe and catalog event sources, making existing events available to be discovered and consumed by any user, and manage your event sources like APIs to securely reuse them across the enterprise.

Event Processing

Want to be able to analyze and turn events into insights? Understand and react to real-time business situations by putting events to work. Remove the need to write SQL and increase productivity. See how you can share insights and build automations based on your event streams.

What's new in IBM Event Automation

Release 1.1.0.0

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Event Streams

11.5.2 - what's new:

  • Enhanced Kafka topic management
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.31
  • Security and bug fixes

11.5.1 - what's new:

  • Enhanced Kafka topic management
  • Enhanced topic list with status
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
  • Kafka version upgraded to 3.8.0
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.6.5.Final
  • Security and bug fixes

11.5.0 - what's new:

  • Topic operator enhancements
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.6.2.Final
  • Kafka version upgraded to 3.7.1
  • Security and bug fixes

Event Endpoint Management

11.4.0 - what's new:

  • Deprecation of support for Event Gateway instances from Event Endpoint Management version 11.2.0 and earlier
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.31
  • Security and bug fixes

11.3.2 - what's new:

  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
  • Security and bug fixes

11.3.1 - what's new:

  • Exporting metrics
  • Security and bug fixes

11.3.0 - what's new:

  • Set quotas for applications to protect your clusters
  • New roles to use with Keycloak provided by IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
  • Hostname verification is now enabled by default
  • Support for IBM z13 (s390x) is removed
  • Security and bug fixes

Event Processing

1.2.3 - what's new:

  • Deploy flows that are customized for production or test environments
  • You can now edit flow details and export flows from within the canvas
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.31
  • Security and bug fixes

1.2.2 - what's new:

  • Use your Flink SQL with custom nodes
  • Event Processing add-on for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
  • Security and bug fixes

1.2.1 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

1.2.0 - what's new:

  • Map key and headers into properties
  • Flink version updated to 1.19.1
  • Updates to supported Kubernetes versions
  • Support for IBM z13 (s390x) is removed
  • Security and bug fixes
Release 1.0.0.0

See license information.

Event Streams

11.4.0 - what's new:

  • IBM support for MongoDB source and the MongoDB sink connector
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
  • OpenShift only: Monitoring dashboard is now supported with all authentication mechanisms
  • Kafka version upgraded to 3.7.0
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.5.11
  • Updates to supported Kubernetes versions
  • Support for IBM Power8 systems (ppc64le) is removed
  • Support for IBM z13 (s390x) is removed
  • Security and bug fixes

11.3.2 - what's new:

  • IBM Support for the Amazon S3 sink connector
  • IBM Support for the FilePulse connector
  • IBM Support for additional databases when using the JDBC sink connector
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.29
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.5.10.Final
  • Security and bug fixes

11.3.1 - what's new:

  • Support for MQ message descriptor in the IBM MQ sink connector v2
  • IBM support for Oracle (Debezium) source connector
  • Share your topics with Event Endpoint Management
  • Kafka version upgraded to 3.6.1
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.5.8.Final
  • Security and bug fixes

11.3.0 - what's new:

  • IBM supported JDBC sink connector
  • Event Streams UI authentication with Keycloak
  • Removal of RunAs authorizer
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.5.0.Final
  • Enhanced security with TLS 1.3
  • Providing external CA certificates for overrides
  • Audit trail for Kafka
  • Removal of Grafana provided by IBM Cloud Pak foundational services
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.5 - what's new:

  • Back up and restore your Event Streams static configurations
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.4.12.Final
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.4 - what's new:

  • Additional IBM supported connectors: IBM MQ connectors v2
  • Apicurio version updated to 2.4.7
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.28
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.3 - what's new:

  • Kafka version upgraded to 3.5.1
  • IBM support for JDBC sink connector
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.2 - what's new:

  • Add your connectors with kaniko builder
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.1 - what's new:

  • Apicurio version updated to 2.4.3
  • Updated resource requirements in production samples
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.27
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.0 - what's new:

  • Support for other Kubernetes platforms in addition to Red Hat OpenShift
  • IBM Cloud Pak foundational services is optional on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • Requirement for setting license ID
  • Support for StrimziPodSets
  • Support for jmxtrans removed
  • Security and bug fixes
  • CASE bundle version is 3.2.0

Event Endpoint Management

11.2.3 - what's new:

  • New security controls for the Event Gateway
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.2 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.1 - what's new:

  • Authenticate with Keycloak provided by IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
  • Support for JSON schemas
  • Changes to the backup label
  • Explaining multi-form management
  • Security and bug fixes

11.2.0 - what's new:

  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
  • Updates to supported Kubernetes versions
  • Security and bug fixes

11.1.5 - what's new:

  • Produce events
  • Security and bug fixes

11.1.4 - what's new:

  • Updates to publish options
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.29
  • Security and bug fixes

11.1.3 - what's new:

  • Support for Linux on IBM Z
  • Security and bug fixes

11.1.2 - what's new:

  • New controls for options
  • Support for exporting as AsyncAPI 3.0
  • Security and bug fixes

11.1.1 - what's new:

  • Options for topics
  • Approval control
  • Security and bug fixes

11.1.0 - what's new:

  • Event Endpoint Management Admin API
  • Support for IBM API Connect in non-IBM Cloud Pak for Integration deployments
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
  • Security and bug fixes

11.0.5 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

11.0.4 - what's new:

  • Support for other Kubernetes platforms in addition to Red Hat OpenShift
  • Security and bug fixes

11.0.3 - what's new:

  • Catalog search
  • Security and bug fixes

11.0.2 - what's new:

  • Subscription management
  • Security and bug fixes

11.0.1 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

11.0.0 - what's new:

  • Event Endpoint Management 11.0.0 simplifies how users can discover, socialize, and use events in your organization. This release also makes Event Endpoint Management a stand-alone capability, meaning it no longer requires an instance of IBM API Connect instance to be deployed.
  • Simpler socialization with enhanced UI
  • Integration with IBM API Connect
  • Simpler installation
  • Gateway groups

Event Processing

1.1.9 - what's new:

  • Tree view for event properties
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.8 - what's new:

  • Support for events with complex array properties
  • Event source node does not process uncommitted events from Kafka topics
  • Flink user-defined functions (UDFs) in the exported SQL
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.7 - what's new:

  • Auto-detection of a topic message format in the event source node
  • Processor node: Unpack arrays
  • Enrichment node: API
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.30
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.5 - what's new:

  • Support for Avro schemas that use a schema registry
  • Support for Linux on IBM Z
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.4 - what's new:

  • Secure communication with Flink deployments
  • Support for events with primitive array properties
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
  • Support for Kubernetes 1.29
  • Apache Flink updated to 1.18.1
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.3 - what's new:

  • Support for events with nested properties
  • Support for ISO timestamps and timestamps with time zone
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.2 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.1 - what's new:

  • Support for Avro binary-encoded events and epoch timestamps
  • Support for Oracle database
  • Security and bug fixes

1.1.0 - what's new:

  • Apache Flink updated to 1.18.0
  • Support for MySQL database
  • Reuse a time window in aggregate and top-n nodes
  • Stale status when your flow is modified
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
  • Security and bug fixes

1.0.5 - what's new:

  • Enrichment node: Database
  • Support for other Kubernetes platforms in addition to Red Hat OpenShift
  • Window top-n is now Top-n
  • Top-n grouping
  • New UI section for aggregate and top-n nodes
  • Autosave
  • Security and bug fixes

1.0.4 - what's new:

  • Additional processor node: Window top-n
  • Security and bug fixes

1.0.3 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

1.0.2 - what's new:

  • Flink version updated to 1.17.1
  • Updates to Flink samples
  • Security and bug fixes

1.0.1 - what's new:

  • Security and bug fixes

1.0.0 - what's new:

  • First General Availability release.