Just last few days before Christmas we are releasing Debezium 0.7.1! This is a bugfix release that fixes few annoying issues that were found during first rounds of use of Debezium 0.7 by our community. All issues relate to either newly provided wal2json support or reduced risk of internal race condition improvement.
Robert Coup has found a performance regression in situations when 0.7.0 was used with old version of Protobuf decoder.
Suraj Savita (and others) has found an issue when our code failed to correctly detect it runs with Amazon RDS wal2json plug-in. We are outsmarted by the JDBC driver internals and included a distinct plugin decoder name wal2json_rds that bypasses detection routine and by default expects it runs against Amazon RDS instance. This mode should be used only with RDS instances.
We have also gathered feedback from first tries to run with Amazon RDS and included a short section in our documentation on this topic.
About Debezium
Debezium is an open source distributed platform that turns your existing databases into event streams, so applications can see and respond almost instantly to each committed row-level change in the databases. Debezium is built on top of Kafka and provides Kafka Connect compatible connectors that monitor specific database management systems. Debezium records the history of data changes in Kafka logs, so your application can be stopped and restarted at any time and can easily consume all of the events it missed while it was not running, ensuring that all events are processed correctly and completely. Debezium is open source under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Get involved
We hope you find Debezium interesting and useful, and want to give it a try. Follow us on Twitter @debezium, chat with us on Zulip, or join our mailing list to talk with the community. All of the code is open source on GitHub, so build the code locally and help us improve ours existing connectors and add even more connectors. If you find problems or have ideas how we can improve Debezium, please let us know or log an issue.
