Release notes for Event Streams Gen 2
Gen 2
Use these release notes to learn about the latest updates to Event Streams Gen 2 that are grouped by month and year. Release notes are available for a minimum of three years.
27 March 2026
- Deprecation of Hyper Protect Crypto Services
- IBM Cloud® is transitioning its dedicated key management offering from Hyper Protect Crypto Services to IBM® Key Protect Dedicated (Single Tenant). As part of this transition, Hyper Protect Crypto Services will reach End of Life (EOL) on March 20, 2027. After this date, the service will no longer be supported, and any remaining instances will be terminated. To ensure continued service availability and support, you must migrate all existing HPCS root keys to IBM Key Protect Dedicated (Single Tenant) before the EOL date. For more information on how to migrate your encryption keys, see Migrating from Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) to Key Protect Dedicated (KP-ST).
02 March 2026
- Event Streams Gen 2 now availabe in Chennai
- Event Streams Gen 2 is now also available in Chennai - Airtel (in-che), in addition to Montreal (ca-mon). For more information, see Location availability.
26 February 2026
- Event Streams Gen 2
- Event Streams Gen 2 is now available, offering the same fully managed Event Streams engine on newer VPC‑based infrastructure with improved security and networking. Try Event Streams Gen 2 now.
December 2025
- Beta introduction of Enterprise Gen2 plan
- Support for Apache Kafka version 4.1.
- Built on VPC and software defined networking.
- Available in the Montreal region.