From 7f8f2a4356cea443c4abe5c063598c5f5414f70e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karen Metts <35154725+karenzone@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 06:26:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: Add kafka confluent support to release notes (#12648)

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 docs/static/releasenotes.asciidoc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/static/releasenotes.asciidoc b/docs/static/releasenotes.asciidoc
index 24509ab1a70..565608b246d 100644
--- a/docs/static/releasenotes.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/static/releasenotes.asciidoc
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ longer have to list all pipelines manually. Instead, Logstash will automatically
 pick up new pipelines that match the wildcard set in
 `xpack.management.pipeline.id`. 
 
+===== Confluent schema registry support in Kafka input plugin
+
+In response to user requests, we have added Confluent schema registry support
+and new configuration options to {logstash-ref}/plugins-inputs-kafka.html[Kafka
+input] plugin version 10.6.0. Now you can configure the Kafka input plugin to
+use the Avro deserializer to retrieve data from Kafka. 
+
 ==== Performance improvements and notable issues fixed
 
 **Central Pipeline Management improvements**