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Another release cadence done, and we’re pleased to announce the next preview release of Debezium is available, 3.2.0.Alpha1. This release is built on Kafka 4.0 with several breaking changes with many improvements and bugfixes.

Let’s take a moment and dive into all these changes.

It has only been three weeks since we released Debezium 3.1.0.Final, and we’re happy to report the first maintenance release has arrived, 3.1.1.Final. This release includes several critical performance improvements and a variety of bug fixes.

The Debezium project is starting off 2025 with a tremendously fun filled release of Debezium 3.1.0.Final. This release includes a myriad of features across multiple connectors, transformation support with WebAssembly and Go, our first official release of the Debezium Management Platform, two brand-new Debezium Server sinks for vector databases and large language models, a new AI module, and that’s not the half of it!

We are excited to announce a candidate release for Debezium 3.1, 3.1.0.CR1.

This new release includes several improvements with the JDBC sink and MySQL connectors, support for ISO string temporal values and Keyspace heartbeats with Vitess, key-based routing for RabbitMQ, and more. Let’s dive in and take a look at these new features and improvements.

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of Debezium 3.1, 3.1.0.Beta1.

This release includes a myriad of features and improvements, including but not limited to our first official release of Debezium Server UI, CloudEvent traceparent support, new features for Debezium’s PubSub and RabbitMQ sinks, schema access in the WASM transformation, and much, much more. Let’s dive in and take a look at all these new features and improvements.

While the team has been hard at work on Debezium 3.1, we’re pleased to announce a new maintenance update for Debezium 3.0.8.Final.

While our maintenance releases often focus primarily on stability improvements, we are happy to share that we’ve also included some new features in this maintenance release to improve the overall user experience.

We’re pleased to announce the next pre-release of Debezium 3.1, 3.1.0.Alpha2. This release includes a number of breaking changes, new features, and improvements.

With the new year comes a new development cycle, and I’m pleased to announce our first pre-release of Debezium 3.1, 3.1.0.Alpha1. This release includes a variety of new features including vector data type support for PostgreSQL and MySQL in the JDBC sink, new adaptive temporal precision modes, MariaDB SSL support, and more. Without further ado, lets jump right into these new features and improvements.

Just in time for the holidays, it’s my pleasure to announce the fifth maintenance release for Debezium 3, 3.0.5.Final. This release introduces several minor improvements, bugfixes, and some breaking changes. Let’s take a few moments and dive into the details…​

I am excited to announce the second maintenance release for the Debezium 3 release stream, 3.0.2.Final. This maintenance release introduces a number of features, let’s take a moment and dive into the highlights.

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…​

We are happy to announce the second maintenance release of the Debezium 2.5 release stream, Debezium 2.5.2.Final. This release includes some improvements and numerous bug fixes, so let’s dive right in…​

As we’ve hit the mid-mark of the quarter, the team is pleased to announce the second installment of the Debezium 2.6 release stream, Debezium 2.6.0.Alpha2. This release is filled to the brim with new features, improvements, and bug fixes, so let’s dive into these…​

While we remain on track with the upcoming Debezium 2.6 release, we are continuously looking at improvements and fixes that are being made that ensures that older releases continue to provide the best possible experience. With that, the team is pleased to announce the first maintenance release of Debezium 2.5, Debezium 2.5.1.Final. Let’s dive into what this release includes and what you should be aware of while upgrading…​

A new year, a new preview release, in true Debezium fashion. The team is pleased to announce the first installment of the Debezium 2.6 release stream, Debezium 2.6.0.Alpha1. Let’s take a moment and dive into these new features, understand how to use these to improve your change data capture experience…​

As the winter chill settles in, and we transition to the festive holiday season, our dedicated team has been busy preparing a special gift for the Debezium community. I am excited to share the immediate release of Debezium 2.5.0.Final, just in time for the holiday celebrations. Get ready to unwrap this latest minor version, filled with holiday cheer and exciting new features!

Let’s take a moment and review all the new features, changes, and improvements that are included in Debezium 2.5, which includes 181 issues resolved by 37 unique contributors.

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.

As the year starts to come to a close, I am happy to announce the first maintenance release for the Debezium 2.4 release series, Debezium 2.4.1.Final.

While our maintenance releases focus primarily on bug fixes and stability improvements, there are a few new features we back ported from our most recent Debezium 2.5 development series. All these new features focus on the Debezium Operator for Kubernetes, so lets take a quick deep dive into those details. As always, you can find the complete list of changes for this release in the release notes.

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.

As the summer months wind down and we enter autumn with cooler temperatures, the team has diligently prepared the next major milestone of Debezium. It’s my pleasure to announce the immediate release of the next minor version, Debezium 2.4.0.Final.

As the team begins the journey toward the next development iteration, let’s take a moment and review all the new features, changes, and improvements that are included in Debezium 2.4, which includes 231 issues resolved by 68 unique contributors.

It has been nearly two weeks since our last preview release of the Debezium 2.4 series, and I am thrilled to announcement the next installation of that series, Debezium 2.4.0.Beta2.

While typically beta releases focus on stability and bugs, this release includes quite a number of noteworthy improves and new features including a new ingestion method for Oracle using OpenLogReplicator, a new single message transform to handle timezone conversions, custom authentication support for MongoDB, configurable order for the MongoDB aggregation pipeline, and lastly support for MongoDB 7.

Let’s take a few moments and dive into all these new features, improvements, and changes in more detail.

It is my pleasure to announce the immediate release of Debezium 2.3.3.Final.

This release includes several bug fixes to address regressions, stability, documentation updates. If you are currently looking to upgrade to the Debezium 2.3.x release stream, we highly recommend you consider using this release. Let’s take a quick look into the regressions and bug fixes.

While development remains steadfast as we continue forward on Debezium 2.4, I am thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Debezium 2.4.0.Beta1.

While this release focuses on stability and bug fixes, there are several new noteworthy features including TimescaleDB support, JMX notifications using JSON payloads, multiple improvements to the Oracle connector’s metrics and embedded Infinispan buffer implementation, SQL Server heartbeats, Vitess shardless strategy, JDBC sink with SQL Server identity-based inserts, and much more. Let’s dive into each of thees new features and others in more detail.

It is my pleasure to announce the immediate release of Debezium 2.3.2.Final.

This release includes several bug fixes to address regressions, stability, documentation updates. If you are currently looking to upgrade to the Debezium 2.3.x release stream, we highly recommend you consider using this release. Let’s take a quick look into the regressions and bug fixes.

It has been several weeks since we released the first installment of Debezium 2.3, and I’m excited to announce the next iteration of Debezium 2.3 with 2.3.1.Final. As with any micro-release, the focus is on stability and bug fixes, as well as adjustments to our documentation; however there are some changes that are noteworthy that I would like to take a few moments to highlight.

It is my pleasure to announce the next Debezium 2.3 release, 2.3.0.CR1!

The main focus of this release is to stabilize the Debezium 2.3 release in preparation for a final release in the coming weeks, which typically means we’re focusing on bugfixes; however, this release includes two new features. Lets take a moment and dive into these new features and any bug fixes that are noteworthy!

It’s my pleasure to announce the next release of the Debezium 2.3 series, 2.3.0.Beta1!

While this release focuses primarily on bug fixes and stability improvements, there are some new improvements with the PostgreSQL connector and the new notification and channels subsystem. In addition, there are also some compatibility breaking changes.

This release contains changes for 22 issues, so lets take a moment and dive into the new features and any potential bug fixes or breaking changes that are noteworthy!

It’s my pleasure to announce the first release of the Debezium 2.3 series, 2.3.0.Alpha1!

This release brings many new and exciting features as well as bug fixes, including Debezium status notifications, storage of Debezium state into a JDBC data store, configurable signaling channels, the ability to edit connector configurations via Debezium UI, the parallelization of Vitess shards processing, and much more.

This release contains changes for 59 issues, so lets take a moment and dive into several of these new features and any potential bug fixes or breaking changes that are noteworthy!

Today, it’s with great joy that we can announce the availability of Debezium 2.2.0.Final!

Many of you may have noticed, this release cadence took a bit longer than our traditional three-months. While we normally prefer to keep to our usual cadence, this shift gives us a unique opportunity to ship Debezium 2.2 with tons of new features and bug fixes, but also major upgrades to several core components.

Today it’s my great pleasure to announce the availability of Debezium 2.1.0.Final!

You might recently noticed that Debezium went a bit silent for the last few weeks. No, we are not going away. In fact the elves in Google worked furiously to bring you a present under a Christmas tree - Debezium Spanner connector.