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With great happiness I’m announcing the release of Debezium 1.2.0.Beta1!

This release brings user-facing schema change topics for the SQL Server, Db2 and Oracle connectors, a new message transformation for content-based change event routing, support for a range of array column types in Postgres and much more. We also upgraded the Debezium container images for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect to version 2.5.0.

As it’s the answer to all questions in life, the number of issues fixed for this release is exactly 42!

I’m very happy to announce the release of Debezium 1.2.0.Alpha1!

This first drop of the 1.2 release line provides a number of useful new features:

  • Support for message transformations (SMTs) and converters in the Debezium embedded engine API

  • A new SMT for filtering out change events using scripting languages

  • Automatic reconnects for the SQL Server connector

  • A new column masking mode using consistent hash values

Overall, the community fixed not less than 41 issues for this release. Let’s take a closer look at some of them in the remainder of this post.

Change events streamed from a database by Debezium are (in developer parlance) strongly typed. This means that event consumers should be aware of the types of data conveyed in the events. This problem of passing along message type data can be solved in multiple ways:

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It’s with great excitement that I’m announcing the release of Debezium 1.1.0.Final!

About three months after the 1.0 release, this new version comes with many exciting new features such as: