0.15.0 release blog

Signed-off-by: Robert Young <[email protected]>

Author: robobario

_posts/2025-08-18-release-0_15_0.md

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+layout: post
+title: "Kroxylicious release 0.15.0"
+date: 2025-08-18 00:00:00 +1200
+author: "Rob Young"
+author_url: "https://github.com/robobario"
+# noinspection YAMLSchemaValidation
+categories: blog kroxylicious-proxy kroxylicious-operator releases
+tags: [ "releases", "kroxylicious-proxy", "kroxylicious-operator" ]
+---
+
+The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release
+of [Kroxylicious 0.15.0](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/releases/tag/v0.15.0). See
+the [Changelog](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0150) for a list of changes and
+summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
+
+This is a critical feature release, fast-tracked to address a key resilience issue for our users.
+
+### Key Highlights
+
+* **Improved Bootstrap Resilience and Load Distribution:**
+    Previously, when presented with a list of `bootstrapServers`, the proxy would only ever attempt to bootstrap connections using the first address in the list. This concentrated the bootstrapping load and created a single point of failure.
+
+    To improve resilience, we have changed the default behaviour to **round-robin** over the supplied `bootstrapServers` each time the proxy receives a new connection from a client. This spreads the load and protects against an extended outage of the primary bootstrap address. For more control, you can now configure the selection strategy to be either `round-robin` or `random`. See the [documentation](https://kroxylicious.io/documentation/0.15.0/html/kroxylicious-proxy/#ref-configuring-proxy-example-proxy) for an example configuration. 
+
+    Big thank you to [The-East-Wind](https://github.com/The-East-Wind) and [opan](https://github.com/opan) for contributing towards the solution.
+
+* **New Quickstart Guide: Record Encryption on Kubernetes:**
+    Looking for an encryption-at-rest solution for data stored in your Apache Kafka? We've got you covered!
+
+    This release includes a [brand-new quickstart guide](https://kroxylicious.io/documentation/0.15.0/html/record-encryption-quickstart/) that will show you how to implement record encryption on Kubernetes from scratch, with no external dependencies. You’ll be encrypting in a snap!
+
+### Feedback
+
+Please let us know,
+through [Slack](https://kroxylicious.slack.com), [GitHub](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/issues) or
+even [bsky](https://bsky.app/profile/kroxylicious.io)), if you find the project interesting or helpful and especially if
+you have deployed it in production.