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+layout: post
+title: "Kroxylicious release 0.17.1"
+date: 2025-11-07 00:00:00 +1200
+author: "Sam Barker"
+author_url: "https://github.com/sambarker"
+# 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 0.17.1](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/releases/tag/v0.17.1). See
+the [Changelog](https://github.com/kroxylicious/kroxylicious/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0171) for a list of changes and
+summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
+
+The main highlights of this release are:
+
+### Librdkafka compression Fix
+
+This patch addresses an issue where the proxy failed to relay special handling logic introduced in Apache Kafka broker v4.0. This logic is required for deprecated ProduceRequest versions (v0-v2).
+
+The bug prevented librdkafka clients older than v2.11.0 from enabling compression when connecting through the proxy. As librdkafka supports a wide variety of language bindings we are releasing this fix as a special patch release rather than waiting for v0.18.0.
+
+### 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)).