Merge pull request #210 from kroxylicious/k-wall-patch-6

Add blog post for Kroxylicious 0.18.0

Author: SamBarker

_posts/2025-11-28-release-0_18_0.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: "Kroxylicious release 0.18.0"
+date: 2025-11-28 00:00:00 +0000
+author: "Keith Wall"
+author_url: "https://github.com/k-wall"
+# noinspection YAMLSchemaValidation
+categories: blog kroxylicious-proxy releases
+tags: [ "releases", "kroxylicious-proxy" ]
+---
+
+The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of [Kroxylicious 0.18.0](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/releases/tag/v0.18.0). See the [Changelog](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0180) for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
+
+The main highlights of this release are:
+
+### Filter API Improvements
+
+* Filters now have a convenient mechanism to convert from topic ids [KIP-516](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-516%3A+Topic+Identifiers) to topic names this is based on [design proposal#008](https://github.com/kroxylicious/design/blob/main/proposals/008-topic-name-lookup-facility.md)
+* Filters now have access to a Subject API that provides convenient access to the authenticated principals established by the channel. This is a building block for filters that need to enforce authorization checks or want to write an audit trail of Kafka actions. Further details and context can be found
+  in [design proposal#009](https://github.com/kroxylicious/design/blob/main/proposals/009-authorizer.md)
+
+### Authorizer Filter
+
+We've added a new Authorizer Filter that can authorize Topic operations using the same semantics as Kafka own Authorization API. This allows you to enforce authorizations rules at the proxy.
+
+### Azure KMS integration for Record Encryption
+
+With this release, Record Encryption now has the capability to use Azure Vault for storage of the key material used to encrypt Kafka records.
+
+### Feedback
+
+Please let us know if you find the project interesting or helpful, and especially if
+you have deployed it in production.
+You can reach us through [Slack](https://kroxylicious.slack.com), [GitHub](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/issues) or even [bsky](https://bsky.app/profile/kroxylicious.io)).