Introducing Confluent Platform 5.4

Confluent Platform 5.4 has been released, featuring enhancements in security, resilience, and compliance for production-ready deployments of event streaming platforms. New features include Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Structured Audit Logs, Multi-Region Clusters, broker-level Schema Validation, and integration with Confluent Control Center for managing and monitoring clusters. The release also includes developer productivity tools like KSQL pull queries and the KSQL REST API, as well as features from Apache Kafka® 2.4. These updates aim to improve efficiency and scalability of event streaming infrastructure while maintaining a strong focus on security.