Release Notes for Debezium 1.7

Support passing an unavailable placeholder value for CLOB/BLOB column types DBZ-4276

None of log files contains offset SCN (SCN offset is no longer available in the online redo logs) DBZ-3635

Postgres testsuite hangs on PostgresConnectorIT#exportedSnapshotShouldNotSkipRecordOfParallelTx DBZ-4081

Container images for Apache Kafka and ZooKeeper fail to start up DBZ-4160

Debezium log miner processes get terminated with ORA-04030 error in idle database environment. DBZ-4204

Debezium Metrics not being set correctly DBZ-4222

DDL statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-4224

Exception ORA-00310 is not gracefully handled during streaming DBZ-4230

Reduce verbosity of logging Oracle memory metrics DBZ-4255

Signal based incremental snapshot is failing when launched right after a schema change DBZ-4272

[Debezium Server] Event Hubs exporter slow/Event data was too large DBZ-4277

ParsingException: DDL statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-4280

some data type is not working for sending signals to a Debezium connector DBZ-4298

NullPointerException may be thrown when validating table and column lengths DBZ-4308

RelationalChangeRecordEmitter calls "LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass())" for each instance of the emitter DBZ-4309

support for JSON function in MySQL index DBZ-4320

Avoid holding table metadata lock in read-only incremental snapshots DBZ-4331

Incremental Snapshot does not pick up table DBZ-4343

DDL couldn’t be parsed: 'analyze table schema.table estimate statistics sample 5 percent;' DBZ-4396

Xstream support with LOB unavailable value placeholder support is inconsistent DBZ-4422

Oracle Infinispan buffer fails to serialize unavailable value placeholders DBZ-4425

Upgrade to Apicurio Registry 2.0 (QE, docs) DBZ-3629

Misc. documentation changes for the Debezium MySQL connector DBZ-3974

Promote Outbox SMT to GA DBZ-4012

Document incremental chunk size setting DBZ-4127

Upgrade MySQL JDBC driver to 8.0.27 DBZ-4286

OracleClobDataTypeIT shouldNotStreamAnyChangesWhenLobEraseIsDetected may fail randomly DBZ-4384

Optionally assemble Oracle connector distribution without Infinispan DBZ-4446

Drop JMS Appender class during container build DBZ-4447

Store buffered events in separate Infinispan cache DBZ-4159

Log warning when table/column name exceeds maximum allowed by LogMiner DBZ-4161

Process transaction started/committed in MySQL read-only incremental snapshot DBZ-4197

Row hashing in LogMiner Query not able to differentiate between rows of a statement. DBZ-3834

The chunk select statement is incorrect for combined primary key in incremental snapshot DBZ-3860

Cassandra UUID handling DBZ-3885

Infinispan SPI throws NPE with more than one connector configured to the same Oracle database DBZ-4064

Debezium Server might contain driver versions pulled from Quarkus DBZ-4070

Database history is constantly being reconfigured DBZ-4106

Oracle flush table should not contain multiple rows DBZ-4118

SQL Server Connector fails to wrap in flat brackets DBZ-4125

Oracle Connector DDL Parsing Exception DBZ-4126

Debezium deals with Oracle DDL appeared IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 DBZ-4135

Error: PostgresDefaultValueConverter - Cannot parse column default value 'NULL::numeric' to type 'numeric'. Expression evaluation is not supported. DBZ-4137

Possible OutOfMemoryError with tracking schema changes DBZ-4151

DDL ParsingException - not all table compression modes are supported DBZ-4158

Producer failure NullPointerException DBZ-4166

DDL statement couldn’t be parsed - Modify Column DBZ-4174

OracleSchemaMigrationIT#shouldNotEmitDdlEventsForNonTableObjects fails for Xstream DBZ-4186

Certain LogMiner-specific tests are not being skipped while using Xstreams DBZ-4188

DML statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-4194

io.debezium.text.ParsingException: DDL statement couldn’t be parsed. Please open a Jira issue with the statement 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS condition' DBZ-4210

Support MySQL Dual Passwords in DDL Parser DBZ-4215

CREATE PROCEDURE DDL throws ParsingException DBZ-4229

CHAR / NCHAR precision is not correctly derived from DDL statements DBZ-4233

Incorrect documentation for message.key.columns DBZ-3437

Document awareness of Oracle database tuning DBZ-3880

Please fix vulnerabilites DBZ-3926

Handle SCN gap DBZ-4036

Upgrade to Apache Kafka 2.8.1 DBZ-4108

Missing documentation for max.iteration.transactions option DBZ-4129

Misc. MongoDB connector docs fixes DBZ-4149

Document Oracle buffering solutions DBZ-4157

DBZ-UI - Provide list of configurations DBZ-3960

add ProtobufConverter for Cassandra CDC DBZ-3906

java.lang.RuntimeException: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The connection is closed DBZ-3346

Oracle connector unable to start in archive only mode DBZ-3712

DDL statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-4026

Question about handling Raw column types DBZ-4037

Fixing wrong log dir location in Kafka container image DBZ-4048

Incremental snapshotting of a table can be prematurely terminated after restart DBZ-4057

Documentation - Setting up Db2 - Step 10 (Start the ASN agent) is not accurate DBZ-4044

Debezium Server uses MySQL driver version as defined in Quarkus not in Debezium DBZ-4049

Events are missed with Oracle connector due to LGWR buffer not being flushed to redo logs DBZ-4067

Postgres JDBC Driver version causes connection issues on some cloud Postgres instances DBZ-4060

nulls for some MySQL properties in the connector-types backend response DBZ-3108

Oracle IncrementalSnapshotIT invalid table test fails DBZ-4040

Document how to enable schema for JSON messages DBZ-4041

Trigger contributor check action only when PR is opened DBZ-4058

Provide JMH benchmark for ChangeEventQueue DBZ-4050

Commit message action fails for multi-line commit messages DBZ-4047

Support read-only MySQL connection in incremental snapshot DBZ-3577

Connection failure after snapshot wasn’t executed for a while DBZ-3951

Oracle-Connector fails parsing a DDL statement DBZ-3977

Oracle connector fails after error ORA-01327 DBZ-4010

Incorrect incremental snapshot DDL triggers snapshot that generates unending* inserts against signalling table DBZ-4013

Oracle-Connector fails parsing a DDL statement (truncate partition) DBZ-4017

Jenkins build node is based on RHEL 8.0 and requires upgrade DBZ-3690

Remove GRANT ALTER ANY TABLE from Oracle documentation DBZ-4007

Update deploy action configuration for v3 DBZ-4009

Website preview via surge.sh DBZ-4011

Automate contributor check in COPYRIGHT.txt DBZ-4023

Provide an example of usage of snapshot.select.statement.overrides DBZ-3603

Throughput Bottleneck and Inefficient Batching in ChangeEventQueue DBZ-3887

Performance Bottleneck in TableIdParser String Replacement DBZ-4015

/etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/java.config

/lib/jvm/jre/conf/security/java.security

RedisStreamChangeConsumer - handleBatch - client.xadd should be wrapped with a try catch block DBZ-3713

Incorrect information in documentation about supplemental logging DBZ-3776

DML statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-3892

DEBEZIUM producer stops unexpectedly trying to change column in table which does not exist DBZ-3898

"binary.handling.mode": "hex" setting works incorrectly for values with trailing zeros DBZ-3912

System test-suite is unable to work with unreleased Apicurio versions DBZ-3924

CI support for running Apicurio registry tests DBZ-3932

Incorrect validation of truncate handling mode DBZ-3935

protobuf decoder has sends unsigned long as signed for Postgres 13 DBZ-3937

Field#description() should return a proper java.lang.String when documentation/description is not set DBZ-3943

MySQL example image not working after upgrade to 8.0 DBZ-3944

Fix empty high watermark check DBZ-3947

Oracle Connector replicating data from all PDBs. Missing PDB filter during replication. DBZ-3954

Oracle connector Parsing Exception: DDL statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-3962

FormSwitchComponent not working correctly in case of duplicate STM form DBZ-3968

Strings with binary collation shouldn’t be parsed as Types.BINARY by MySqlAntlrDdlParser. DBZ-3969

Openshift pods list image preview not found DBZ-3970

MySqlValueConvertes.java has typo DBZ-3976

Mysql-Connector fails parsing invalid decimal format DDL statement DBZ-3984

Connection Factory is not used when validating SQL Server Connector DBZ-4001

Promote Outbox SMT to GA DBZ-3584

Clarify lifecycle of snapshot metrics DBZ-3613

Explore on building non-core repos with corresponding PR branch of core repo and vice-versa DBZ-3748

Upgrade to binlog-client 0.25.3 DBZ-3787

RelationalSnapshotChangeEventSource should accept a RelationalDatabaseSchema DBZ-3818

Create GH Action that flags "octocat" commits DBZ-3822

Publish Maven repo with downstream artifacts DBZ-3861

CI preparation for Apicurio Registry downstream DBZ-3908

Specify branch name on push/pull_request step in all GH action workflows DBZ-3913

Consistently order releases from new to old on the website DBZ-3917

Update RELEASING.md DBZ-3918

Update antora.yml file with new values for SMT attributes DBZ-3922

Documentation update should not trigger staging workflow build DBZ-3923

Upgrade to Jackson Databind version 2.10.5.1 DBZ-3927

Add top-level Transformation menu node for downstream docs DBZ-3931

Docker image serving plugin artifacts over HTTP for new Strimzi deployment mechanism DBZ-3934

Upgrade MySQL example image to 8.0 DBZ-3936

Gracefully handle DB history file stored in a sym-linked directory DBZ-3958

Update docs to specify that connectors track metadata only for transactions that occur after deployment DBZ-3961

Update and automate Jenkis Node setup DBZ-3965

Hyper-link references between options in the Outbox SMT options table DBZ-3920

Generify exclusion of columns from snapshotting DBZ-2525

PoC for adding transformations / SMT steps to the Debezium UI DBZ-3698

Use No match found of pf Empty state component in filter page. DBZ-3888

Update the "Skip to review" implementation as per PF new documented standard design pattern DBZ-3916

Set up MongoDB 5.0 image DBZ-3973

Sink adapter for Nats Streaming DBZ-3815

Debezium Server’s run.sh startup script fails on msys or cygwin bash DBZ-3840

Upgrade Debezium Server Pravega sink to 0.9.1 DBZ-3841

Create example for using self-managed Debezium with MK DBZ-2947

Exception when validating field.exclude.list for Mongo DB connectors DBZ-3028

In case of /api/connectors/1 takes longer time(more than pooling) to fail spinner keeps on loading. DBZ-3313

SQL Server CDC event timestamps do not get converted to UTC DBZ-3479

Debezium snapshot.select.statement.overrides overrides not used DBZ-3760

Server name pattern is unnecessarily restrictive. DBZ-3765

Crash when processing MySQL 5.7.28 TIME fields returns empty blob instead of null DBZ-3773

Debezium UI and CDC DBZ-3781

Disable "Next" if any field value is changed after the validation. DBZ-3783

Add DEFAULT to partition option engine DBZ-3784

Initiating MongoDB connector causes oplog table scan DBZ-3788

SRCFG00014: The config property debezium.sink.pravega.scope is required but it could not be found in any config source DBZ-3792

LSN component of Postgres sequence numbers is not updated DBZ-3801

Debezium 1.6.1 expecting database.port even when database.url is provided in config. DBZ-3813

Postgres numeric default value throwing exception DBZ-3816

SQL Server connector doesn’t handle retriable errors during task start DBZ-3823

Debezium OpenShift integration test-suite failure DBZ-3824

Debezium Server Kinesis Sink Cannot Handle Null Events DBZ-3827

Timeout when reading from MongoDB oplog cannot be controlled DBZ-3836

Snapshot locking mode "minimal_percona" incorrectly resets transaction & isolation state DBZ-3838

Properly skip tests when minor/patch are not specified DBZ-3839

Truncate validation should verify key schema is null and not value schema DBZ-3842

System test-suite fails if CRD already exist within the cluster DBZ-3846

Incorrect test-tags for OcpAvroDB2ConnectorIT DBZ-3851

System test-suite CI job does not have RHEL image parameter DBZ-3852

Typo with prodname asciidoc attribute usage DBZ-3856

SQL Server Connector finds tables for streaming but not snapshot DBZ-3857

Signaling table id column too small in example DBZ-3867

Oracle unparsable DDL issue DBZ-3877

Support AS clause in GRANT statement DBZ-3878

Error Parsing Oracle DDL dropping PK DBZ-3886

Q3 docs referencing Service Registry 2.0 docs DBZ-3891

EMPTY_CLOB() and EMPTY_BLOB() should be treated as empty LOB values DBZ-3893

Oracle DDL parsing issue DBZ-3896

Debezium UI participating in upstream releases — follow-up DBZ-3169

Discuss SMT predicates in docs DBZ-3227

Test failure for SqlServerConnectorIT#excludeColumnWhenCaptureInstanceExcludesColumns DBZ-3228

Adjust to changed Strimzi CRDs DBZ-3385

Create a smoke test for Debezium with Kafka on RHEL DBZ-3387

Promote Debezium support on RHEL to GA DBZ-3406

Oracle Docs for TP DBZ-3407

Upgrade to Kafka 2.8 DBZ-3444

Update Debezium on RHEL documentation for GA DBZ-3462

Options in outbox router docs not linked DBZ-3649

Create Kafka related images based on UBI-8 for RHEL certification DBZ-3650

Error in description of the property column.mask.hash.hashAlgorithm.with.salt.salt DBZ-3802

Debezium does not provide up-to-date container images DBZ-3809

Change DBZ kafka image , so its start script can be used on QA Rhel kafka DBZ-3810

Test with Apicurio Registry 2.0 in system level test-suite DBZ-3812

Upgrade commons-compress from 1.20 to 1.21 DBZ-3819

Update jenkins job configuration to incorporate recent system-testsuite changes DBZ-3825

Test Failure - RecordsStreamProducerIT#testEmptyChangesProducesHeartbeat DBZ-3828

Upgrade UI proxy connectors to 1.6.1.Final DBZ-3837

Improperly constructed links generating downstream build errors DBZ-3858

CI Failure in VitessConnectorIT.shouldOutputRecordsInCloudEventsFormat DBZ-3863

CI Failure for StreamingSourceIT.shouldFailOnSchemaInconsistency DBZ-3869

Extract new top-level menu node for SMTs DBZ-3873

Introduce documentation variables for AMQ DBZ-3879

Don’t log error when dropping non-existent replication slot in tests DBZ-3889

Intermittent test failures on CI: VitessConnectorIT::shouldUseUniqueKeyAsRecordKey DBZ-3900

Intermittent test failures on CI: IncrementalSnapshotIT#updatesWithRestart DBZ-3901

Test shouldNotEmitDdlEventsForNonTableObjects randomly fails DBZ-3902

VOLUME instruction causes issue with recent Docker versions DBZ-3903

Provide ability to denote UI order in field metadata DBZ-3904

Make relocation.dir and offset.dir configs required. DBZ-2251

Create Debezium API Spec Generator and static API definitions for connectors DBZ-3364

Improve incremental snapshot metrics DBZ-3688

Import Pattern-fly CSS from @patternfly/patternfly DBZ-3779

Allow system testsuite to produce Strimzi image for arbitrary released version of Debezium DBZ-3826

PostgreSQL - Minor Performance bottleneck in PostgresChangeRecordEmitter DBZ-3870

Oracle - Provide a more user-friendly way to update SCN DBZ-3876

Test failure on CI - SqlServerConnectorIT#readOnlyApplicationIntent DBZ-2398

Test failure for SqlServerConnectorIT#EventProcessingFailureHandlingIT DBZ-3229

Remove underscore from Debezium Server NATS sink Java package name DBZ-3910

LogMinerDatabaseStateWriter causes a SQLException DBZ-3911

Maven release fails due to debezium-testing version handling DBZ-3909

Zookeeper image should not use archive.apache.org DBZ-3914

Implement incremental snapshotting for Oracle DBZ-3692

Implement a LogMiner event buffer SPI DBZ-3752

Remove artifacts.url property from UI config.js DBZ-3209

Do not mark offset for commit log files with error DBZ-3366

Support read-only MySQL connection in incremental snapshot DBZ-3577

CloudEventsConverter does not support Oracle, Db2, or Vitess DBZ-3668

Allow usernames to be excluded in logminer query DBZ-3671

Track Oracle session PGA memory consumption DBZ-3756

Performance issue due to inefficient ObjectMapper initialization DBZ-3770

Add more smoke tests DBZ-3789

UI frontend build fails for exported checkout which has no .git dir DBZ-3265

Broken links in Avro and Outbox Event Router documentation DBZ-3430

Cassandra connector generates invalid schema name for its CDC records DBZ-3590

Support invisible columns with MySql 8.0.23+ DBZ-3623

Db2Connector is unable to establish validation connection DBZ-3632

Status stays in RUNNING for Postgres Connector after Postgres is stopped DBZ-3655

Change connection validation log level for better visibility DBZ-3677

OracleSchemaMigrationIT can throw false positive test failures if test artifacts remain DBZ-3684

MySQL Connector error after execute a "create role" statement DBZ-3686

ERROR in Entry module not found: Error: Can’t resolve './src' DBZ-3716

Error parsing query, even with database.history.skip.unparseable.ddl DBZ-3717

Support for TABLE_TYPE missing form MySQL grammar DBZ-3718

Oracle LogMiner DdlParser Error DBZ-3723

Debezium mysql connector plugin throws SQL syntax error during incremental snapshot DBZ-3725

DDL statement couldn’t be parsed DBZ-3755

Debezium Oracle connector stops with DDL parsing error DBZ-3759

Exception thrown from getTableColumnsFromDatabase DBZ-3769

Incorrect regex parsing in start script of kafka image DBZ-3791

Dropdown items list visibility blocked by wizard footer DBZ-3794

Permission issues with DB2 example image DBZ-3795

Make consumer of outbox example more resilient DBZ-1709

Set up CI for debezium-examples repo DBZ-1749

Refactor LogMinerHelper and SqlUtils DBZ-2552

Implement tests for UI components DBZ-3050

Add documentation about new capturing implementation for the MySQL connector to downstream product DBZ-3140

Remove JSimpleParser DBZ-3155

Ability to build KC image with Apicurio converters DBZ-3433

Remove log.mining.history.xxx deprecated options DBZ-3581

Un-document deprecated options and metrics DBZ-3681

Capture changes made by connector user & document that SYS/SYSTEM changes are not captured DBZ-3683

Use Debezium thread factory for PG keep-alive DBZ-3685

Time for another community newsletter DBZ-3695

Improve signalling documentation DBZ-3699

Example end-to-end fails due to an API incompatibility with Maven 3.6+ DBZ-3705

Example debezium-server-name-mapper fails due to an API incompatibility with Maven 3.6+ DBZ-3706

Doc clarification on connector rewrite DBZ-3711

Support RHEL deployments in system-test tooling DBZ-3724

Misc. tutorial updates DBZ-3747

Update Oracle connector deployment instructions for consistency DBZ-3772