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I am pleased to announce the first maintenance release for the Debezium 3 release stream, 3.0.1.Final. This maintenance release introduces several new features including support for Cassandra 5, PostgreSQL 17, and MySQL 9.1. In addition, there are some configuration improvements with Debezium Server supporting YAML.

It’s with immense joy and pleasure to announce the availability of Debezium 3.0.0.Final!

We released Debezium 2.0 nearly 2 years ago, and in that time, the platform has continued to grow, introducing sink-based connectors, new community-led connectors, and an extensive list of features and improvements to the core platform and connectors. With the community’s help, Debezium remains the de facto leader in CDC.

The 3.0 release marks another milestone for Debezium, one that we’re eager to share.

As I mentioned last week, we are in the homestretch for the next major release. We’re happy to announce the next candidate release, Debezium 3.0.0.CR2!. Let’s take a quick look at the changes and improvements in this new release…​

I am happy to announce the third maintenance release of the Debezium 2.7 release stream, 2.7.3.Final. This maintenance release focuses on addressing stability and regressions, with several improvements. Let’s dive into these changes…​

The community is in the homestretch toward the next major milestone for Debezium, and we’re happy to announce the availability of Debezium 3.0.0.CR1!

Beyond a number of bugfixes to connectors, this release also brings several improvements for MySQL, Oracle, and the Vitess connectors. Unless any major regressions show up, we can expect Debezium 3 in the not too distant future.

I am happy to announce the second maintenance release of the Debezium 2.7 release stream, 2.7.2.Final. This maintenance release focuses on addressing stability and regressions, with some improvements such as support for DECIMAL(p) data types with Informix and fixing a regression with the JsonConverter and the TruncateColumn handler.

Even as the summer heat continues to rise, the Debezium team has some new, cool news to share. We’re pleased to announce the first beta preview of Debezium 3, 3.0.0.beta1.

This release includes a host of new features and improvements, including detailed metrics for creates, updates, and deletes per table, replication slot creation timeout, support for PgVector data types with PostgreSQL, a new Oracle embedded buffer implementation based on Ehcache, and others. Let’s take a few moments and dive into these new features and how you can take advantage of them in Debezium 3!

I am pleased to announce the first maintenance release of Debezium 2.7, 2.7.1.Final. This maintenance release focuses on addressing a number of stability issues, including improvements to ad-hoc snapshots, closing of transformations in the embedded engine, improvements to the Oracle LogMiner implementation, Vitess epoch calculations, and more…​

Let’s dive into these changes…​

As the summer temperatures continue to rise, the Debezium community is pleased to announce Debezium 3.0.0.Alpha2 is now available for testing.

This release includes a host of new features and improvements, including being built on top of Kafka 3.8, the relocation of the JDBC sink connector, custom converters support in Debezium Server, and several improvements to our community-led connectors.

We are happy to announce the first pre-release of Debezium 3, 3.0.0.Alpha1. This release, albeit smaller than our normal pre-releases, is highly focused on a few key points, such as testing the release process with Java 17/21; however, it also includes several new features. Let’s take a moment and talk about the upcoming breaking changes in-depth and the new features you will find.

As the team leaps into Q3, we’re happy to announce the fruits of our Q2 work, Debezium 2.7.0.Final is now generally available. This release includes changes for 140 issues with contributions from over 51 contributors. Let’s take a moment and review all the changes.

Although half of 2024 is nearly behind us, the team is pleased to announce the first beta preview release for Debezium, 2.7.0.Beta1.

This release includes incubating support for Db2 on z/OS, authentication and encryption with NATS JetStream, improvements for the MariaDB JDBC sink dialect, JMX Exporter with Debezium Server images, configurable metrics in Debezium Operator, and more.

Let’s walk through all the highlights and discuss these in more depth…​

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Debezium 2.6.2.Final. This release is the second maintenance release that focuses on addressing several critical stability issues with the 2.6.1.Final release, support for Oracle database query filtering with more than one thousand tables, fixed race condition with PostgreSQL offset flushing, fixed Avro compatibility, and more.

Let’s take a few moments and dive into these and more…​

The old saying is "April showers bring May flowers"; however, in this case it seems a new Debezium release has sprouted packed with many new features. We’re pleased to announce the release of Debezium 2.7.0.Alpha2, the next pre-release in the Debezium 2.7 stream, is now available for testing.

This release includes new ROW_ID serialization for the Oracle connector, PostgreSQL array support for the JDBC sink connector, NATs authentication with Debezium Server, performance improvements with Oracle LogMiner and large tables, and more. Let’s walk through the highlights of this release and discuss these and more in-depth…​

As the temperature for summer continues to rise, I’m please to announce that Debezium has some really cool news, Debezium 2.7.0.Alpha1 is now available for testing. This release includes a variety of new changes and improvements across various connectors like MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Vitess, and the Kubernetes Operator, to a myriad of subtle fixes and improvements across the entire Debezium portfolio. Let’s take a moment and dive into some highlights…​

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Debezium 2.6.1.Final. This release is the first maintenance release that focuses on addressing several critical stability issues with the 2.6.0.Final release, including classpath loading problems with Debezium Server, MongoDB silently stops gathering changes, and a race condition with the Oracle Infinispan buffer implementation.

Let’s take a few moments and dive into these and more…​

As the team has sprung forward into action, with spring upon us, and we’re in the summer spirit, we are pleased to announce the immediate release of Debezium 2.6.0.Final. This release includes dozens of new features, bug fixes, and improvements from the valiant efforts of the team and community contributors. Overall, there were 249 issues resolved with contributions from over 56 contributors. Lets a moment and review all the changes.

As we are just a week away from Debezium 2.6.0.Final, I am pleased to announce Debezium 2.6.0.CR1, the first release candidate for the 2.6 release stream. This release includes a number of improvements, including XML support for the Oracle OpenLogReplicator adapter, TRACE level logging support for Debezium Server, configurable partition modes for Cassandra, the new Snapshot API for MongoDB and Db2, and more.

Additionally, this release includes a variety of bug fixes and several breaking changes.

Let’s take a closer look at all these changes and improvements included in Debezium 2.6.0.CR1; as always, you can find the complete list of changes for this release in the release notes. Please remember to take special note to any breaking changes that could affect your upgrade path.

We are happy to announce the third maintenance release of the Debezium 2.5 release stream, Debezium 2.5.3.Final. This release includes some improvements and numerous bug fixes, so let’s dive right in…​

As we are just one step away from the Debezium 2.5 final release, I am pleased to announce that Debezium 2.5.0.CR1 is now available. This release includes a number of improvements like AWS SQS sink for Debezium Server, INSERT/DELETE semantics for incremental snapshot watermarking, ReselectColumnsPostProcessor, uniform Oracle LOB behavior.

Additionally, this release includes a variety of bug fixes and several breaking changes.

Let’s take a closer look at all these changes and improvements included in Debezium 2.5.0.CR1; as always, you can find the complete list of changes for this release in the release notes. Please remember to take special note to any breaking changes that could affect your upgrade path.

As we begin to approach the final stretch for Debezium 2.5, I am pleased to announce that Debezium 2.5.0.Beta1 is now available. This release includes a number of improvements like support for MariaDB GTID, partitioning for Debezium Server EventHub’s sink, native RabbitMQ streams Debezium Server sink, streaming from PostgreSQL 16 stand-by databases, MySQL high-precision source timestamps, field inclusion/exclusion with JDBC sink, some additional notifications for initial snapshots, and service account support for Debezium Operator CRDs. Additionally, this release includes a variety of bug fixes and several breaking changes.

Let’s take a closer look at all these changes and improvements included in Debezium 2.5.0.Beta1; as always, you can find the complete list of changes for this release in the release notes. Please remember to take special note to any breaking changes that could affect your upgrade path.

While it has only been two short weeks since our first preview release for the Debezium 2.5 release stream, I am happy to announce the immediate availability of the next preview release, Debezium 2.5.0.Alpha2.

This release includes a variety of improvements, batch support for the JDBC Sink connector, seamless support for MongoDB documents that exceed the 16MB barrier, MySQL 8.2 compatibility, and signal improvements for SQL Server. Additionally, this release includes a variety of bug fixes and several breaking changes.

Let’s take a closer look at these changes and improvements that are included in Debezium 2.5.0.Alpha2; as always, you can find the complete list of changes for this release in the release notes. Please remember to take special note to any breaking changes that could affect your upgrade path.