What's new and changed in IBM StreamSets

IBM StreamSets updates can include new features and fixes. Releases are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Software Hub.

Installing IBM StreamSets

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Remember: All of the IBM Software Hub components that are associated with an instance of IBM Software Hub must be installed at the same version.

IBM Software Hub Version 5.4.0

A new version of IBM StreamSets was released in June 2026 with IBM Software Hub 5.4.0.

Operand version: 6.4.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features
This release of IBM StreamSets includes the following features:
Access Amazon MSK from a pipeline by using IAM access control
When you deploy a Data Collector 7.4.0 engine, you can connect to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) by configuring a custom authentication option in your pipeline.
For the complete list of new features in Data Collector 7.4.0, see 7.4.x Release Notes in the IBM StreamSets documentation.
Deploy an engine to the embedded data plane on the IBM Software Hub cluster
To help you get started with IBM StreamSets, you can now deploy a Data Collector engine to the same cluster where IBM Software Hub is installed.
Each organization includes a default environment that is named Embedded Data Plane that represents the Kubernetes cluster within Red Hat® OpenShift® where IBM Software Hub is installed. You can activate this environment and then create Control Hub Kubernetes deployments to automatically provision Data Collector engines that run in the cluster.
For more information, see Post-installation tasks in the IBM StreamSets documentation.
New features from 5.3.1 patches
This release of IBM StreamSets includes the following features that were introduced in IBM Software Hub Version 5.3.1 patches:
Process Kafka 4.x data
When you deploy a Data Collector 7.2.0 engine, you can use Kafka stages to process data in Kafka 4.x, in addition to Kafka 3.x.
For the complete list of new features in Data Collector 7.2.0, see 7.2.x Release Notes in the IBM StreamSets documentation.
Schedule jobs within a project
You can now use scheduled tasks to start, stop, or upgrade jobs within a project.
For more information, see Projects in the IBM StreamSets documentation.
Updates
The following updates were introduced in this release:
  • You can now manually shut down IBM StreamSets to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again. For more information, see Administering IBM StreamSets.

  • IBM StreamSets now automatically creates several defensive network policies. For more information, see Network security.

Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak for Data on the IBM Support website.
Security issues fixed in this release
The following security issues were fixed in this release:

CVE-2026-24051, CVE-2026-1225

CVE-2025-66516, CVE-2025-66200, CVE-2025-65082, CVE-2025-58098, CVE-2025-54988, CVE-2025-53864, CVE-2025-27821, CVE-2025-15558, CVE-2025-11226

CVE-2024-29371