Debezium Blog

Welcome to the newest edition of the Debezium community newsletter, in which we share all things CDC related including blog posts, group discussions, as well as StackOverflow questions that are relevant to our user community.
It’s been a long time since our last edition. But we are back again! In case you missed our last edition, you can check it out here.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Debezium 1.6.0.Final!
This release is packed full with tons of new features, including support for incremental snapshotting that can be toggled using the new the Signal API. Based on the excellent paper DBLog: A Watermark Based Change-Data-Capture Framework by Netflix engineers Andreas Andreakis and Ioannis Papapanagiotou, the notion of incremental snapshotting addresses several requirements around snapshotting that came up repeatedly in the Debezium community:

It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Debezium 1.6.0.CR1!
This release adds skipped operations optimizations for SQL Server, introduces Heartbeat support to the Oracle connector, Oracle BLOB/CLOB support is now opt-in only, and provides a range of bug fixes and other improvements across different Debezium connectors.

It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Debezium 1.6.0.Beta2!
This release adds support for Pravega to Debezium Server, expands the snapshotting options of the Debezium Oracle connector, and provides a range of bug fixes and other improvements across different Debezium connectors.

Let me announce the bugfix release of Debezium 1.5, 1.5.2.Final!
This release is a rebuild of 1.5.1.Final using Java 8.