Event Endpoint Management continues to be enhanced

Event Endpoint Management continues to be available and enhanced as part of IBM's integration platforms.

End of Marketing announcement for IBM Event Automation

Event Streams and Event Processing are deprecated and no enhancements will be provided. Support and security fixes will be provided in line with published support lifecycle policies. Future event-driven solutions that make use of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink will be delivered by IBM Confluent.

For more information, see the support lifecycle transition and software ordering completion announcement.

What’s new

Find out what is new in Event Endpoint Management version 11.8.1.

Release 11.8.1

Event Gateway Kafka client update

Event Endpoint Management 11.8.1 updates the Event Gateway Kafka client library to version 4.3.0. Before you upgrade, check the Event Endpoint Management UI for any warnings the Event Gateway reports about clients that use deprecated APIs. For more information, you can check the Event Gateway OpenTelemetry metrics to identify clients that use Kafka protocol API versions no longer supported in Kafka 4.x. Update any affected clients to avoid disruption.

Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22

Event Endpoint Management version 11.8.1 introduces support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22.

Documentation: Highlighting differences between versions

Any difference in features or behavior introduced by Event Endpoint Management 11.8.1 compared to 11.8.0 is highlighted in this documentation by using the following graphic: Event Endpoint Management 11.8.1 icon

Security and bug fixes

Event Endpoint Management release 11.8.1 contains security and bug fixes.

Release 11.8.0

Terminology changes

Event Endpoint Management release 11.8.0 contains the following terminology changes:

  • Options are now called Virtual topics. Previously, the term options was used for event endpoints from the perspective of authors (Kafka administrators). To avoid confusion, the same term is now used for event endpoints from all perspectives.
  • Event endpoints are now called Virtual topics. Previously, the term event endpoints was used for options that were published to the catalog.
  • Event sources are now called topics, or source topics in places where confusion with virtual topics is possible.

Multiple topic subscriptions: applications

Users can now subscribe to multiple virtual topics with the same credentials by using a new feature called applications. Applications allow clients to access multiple virtual topics with the same credentials.

Existing subscriptions are converted to applications that subscribe to the same virtual topic and use the same credentials.

Important: To enable applications to subscribe to multiple topics, you must convert your existing gateways to provide new prerequisite configuration values.

Content filtering

You can now use content filtering to control which events are delivered to subscribers. Define filters based on event data or subscriber data to ensure that only relevant events are delivered.

IBM API Connect Developer Portal integration

Event Endpoint Management 11.8.0 introduces an integration with IBM API Connect Developer Portal v12.1.1 or later. You can now publish virtual topics to Developer Portal in addition to the Event Endpoint Management catalog.

Event Gateway deployment and configuration enhancements

In Event Endpoint Management 11.8.0 and later, the Event Endpoint Management operator can deploy operator-managed Event Gateways without requiring users to create a configuration in the Event Endpoint Management UI beforehand. The gateway must be in the same namespace as the Event Manager. For more details, see install operator-managed Event Gateway.

Event Gateway configuration procedures are updated to suit the gateway deployment type: operator-managed gateways are configured in the custom resource, Kubernetes Deployment gateways are configured with a ConfigMap. For more details, see gateway properties reference.