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Zilla Console 1.x

Zilla Console is the umbrella product covering the management Console, the Management plane, and the Control plane deployed alongside a Gateway. This page summarizes user-facing changes for each 1.x release.

1.4.2

Release Date: July 2, 2026

Changed

  • Removed Grafana (image module, Compose service, and Helm pod).
  • Extracted authentication from the management plane into a separate service, to support multi-tenancy.

1.4.1

Release Date: June 29, 2026

Added

  • A Gateway page overview.
  • An owner-bundle onboarding flow with invite acceptance for new organizations.
  • Paginated logs with an SSE-based tail view and traffic details.

1.4.0

Release Date: May 25, 2026

Added

  • A thin dashboard aggregator powering the Console Dashboard.
  • Subscription lifecycle management, including credentials, certificates, and per-subscription views.
  • Application management, including members and per-application API keys.
  • An activity event stream service, powering the Inbox, Dashboard, and activity timelines.
  • Session management, personal access tokens, user preferences, SSO, and session policy.
  • Support for updating Kafka quotas.
  • Support for AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).
  • Support for exploring an mTLS-secured Kafka broker, including truststore and SCRAM support.
  • Support for Amazon MSK Express brokers.
  • mTLS certificates as a Plan's security access mechanism, including AWS ACM Private CA-based certificate provisioning.
  • Configuring a Kafka client-accessible Endpoint.
  • Alert definitions for metrics exceeding a threshold, and a dashboard for Kafka error responses.
  • A Management API proxy to Grafana dashboard charts, with enforced authentication.

Fixed

  • A deleted plan still appeared in a product version's Plans & Limits section.
  • Creating a plan failed with a foreign-key constraint error when no Certificate Authority was selected.
  • The notification bell tooltip persisted after being clicked and overlapped the notification modal.
  • Deleting an API file succeeded even when active products still referenced it.
  • An Application card always showed 0 subscriptions due to an incorrect count from the API.
  • Grafana panels on the Dashboard tab blocked navigation and could appear stuck when switching tabs.
  • The Teams list didn't update after creating a new team without a manual refresh.
  • The product creation form gave no empty-state message when no plans were available.
  • Deleting a product version left a stale UI entry and caused a fatal error on a second delete attempt.
  • Deleting a Certificate Authority linked to an Endpoint broke certificate generation.
  • Deleting a service with linked endpoints showed a generic error instead of the actual cause.
  • The Alerts tab showed a full-screen "Permission denied" page and logged the user out on a 403.
  • Any failed HTTP request showed a full-screen Fatal Error page instead of a graceful error state.
  • Certificate Authority creation could be submitted more than once from the same form.
  • Kafka authentication fields weren't conditionally shown based on the selected authentication type.

1.3.1

Release Date: April 9, 2026

No user-facing changes recorded for this patch release.

1.3.0

Release Date: April 9, 2026

Added

  • Auto-provisioning of the Gateway's client certificate to Secrets Manager for outbound mTLS.

Fixed

  • The Control service failed to explore an SSL-authenticated Kafka service.
  • Kafka topic provisioning in the Control service is now more reliable.

1.2.3

Release Date: April 8, 2026

Fixed

  • The Policies console used a stale API.

1.2.2

Release Date: April 6, 2026

Fixed

  • Increased the Control service health check timeout to prevent false failures.

1.2.1

Release Date: April 6, 2026

Fixed

  • Fixed an intermittent Control service startup issue.

1.2.0

Release Date: April 4, 2026

Added

  • Kafka topic and cluster policies, including Management API, UX, and Gateway enforcement.
  • Configurable validity for PCA-issued server certificates.
  • Support for extra volumes in the environment Helm chart.

Fixed

  • The Gateway tab showed duplicate entries for the same Gateway.
  • A topic policy using a pattern wasn't enforced.
  • Removed an unused "Default Configs" section from Topic policies.
  • The Create Subscription screen could hang during Quickstart.
  • The plan authorization effect could loop infinitely.
  • The Create Subscription form reset unrelated fields.
  • Fixed a platform initialization race condition.
  • The Quickstart environment no longer requires a bootstrap token environment variable.
  • Fixed management URLs for an aliased control subchart.
  • Fixed a missing environment ID when generating certificates.

1.1.1

Release Date: March 20, 2026

Added

  • Gateway monitoring UI, showing Gateways attached to an Environment.
  • Healthcheck endpoints for Zilla Console services.
  • Support for omitting the cluster-id topic naming prefix during API Product deployment.
  • A favicon for the console.

Fixed

  • The bootstrap token popup hung while loading when creating an environment via the UI.
  • An environment could disappear after multiple upgrades of an AKS Helm deployment.
  • Regenerating an API key redirected away from the Application before the new secret key could be viewed.
  • Fixed typos in the API Product details panel.
  • Suppressed an unexpected warning in Gateway logs from the OTLP exporter.
  • Password managers no longer trigger a spurious pop-list for the user identity field.
  • Fixed a Gateway 404 by enforcing cleanup.policy=compact on existing Kafka topics.

1.1.0

Release Date: February 17, 2026

Added

  • Platform version now displayed in the Console UI sidebar.
  • Azure AKS Helm chart support.
  • Enforcement of producer vs. consumer APIs in generated Gateway configuration.

Fixed

  • Removed a confusing "Subscriber count" shown on individual subscriber cards.
  • Fixed a fatal error shown on the subscription detail view.
  • Clarified the access type field in the Create Subscription "Access setup" step.
  • Fixed several Subscriptions UI bugs.

1.0.1

Release Date: February 16, 2026

Added

  • The release version is now included in the org.v1 /info endpoint response.

Fixed

  • Bootstrap token creation failed due to a missing environment ID.

1.0.0

Release Date: February 12, 2026

Zilla Console 1.0.0 is the first generally available release.