New with Confluent Platform 7.9

Introduces the Oracle XStream CDC Source Connector for high-throughput, low-latency streaming of change events from Oracle databases. Adds Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) to Confluent Platform (Early Access) for encrypting individual fields within messages on the producer side. Enhances security for ksqlDB and Flink with OAuth support. Updates Confluent Control Center (C3) with new consumer group management features. Announces General Availability of the official Confluent Node.js client for Apache Kafka. Introduces KRaft controller membership changes for dynamic quorum management. Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) updates include dynamic PVC storage class migration (EBS to EFS), schema CRD enhancements, and HTTP proxy settings. CP Ansible updates include OIDC/OAuth 2.0 support for ksqlDB and Control Center, and RBAC enablement.