Debezium 3.7.0.Alpha1 is the first preview release of the 3.7 series, resolving 97 issues and introducing a wide range of new features. Highlights include incubating connectors for Ingres and YashanDB, a new ExtendedTimestamp type to handle high-precision timestamps beyond INT64 limits, and expanded JDBC sink support with CockroachDB, SingleStore, and Starrocks dialects. Core improvements cover schema history memory deduplication for multi-tenant deployments, LOB re-selection caching to reduce source database load, and configurable shutdown strategies for the embedded engine. The Oracle connector gains downstream mining support for both XStream and LogMiner, while PostgreSQL gets first-class geometric type mapping. The CockroachDB connector adds sinkless changefeed support, eliminating the need for an intermediate Kafka cluster. PyDebeziumAI now supports PGVector and Milvus backends alongside Chroma for CDC-to-vector synchronization. Platform and operator improvements include reduced OTel metrics latency, JMX metrics for the JDBC sink, and new CLI commands for connection, transform, and pipeline log management. Breaking changes affect MySQL-to-MySQL JDBC sink pipelines due to type preservation fixes.
