Off-heap memory upgrade: Chronicle Queue has been replaced with Java's native Foreign Function and Memory API (MemorySegment) for off-heap transaction storage. This removes the Chronicle Queue dependency and leverages JDK-native memory management.

Apache Mina SSH support: New SSH provider option (a2.ssh.provider=mina) using Apache Mina SSHD, alongside existing SSHJ and Maverick Synergy providers. Includes a new a2.ssh.connect.timeout parameter (default 30,000 ms).

Performance improvements: Agrona-based optimizations for internal data structures.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed incorrect type cast in SinkTable for tables with LOB columns (#142)
• Fixed OraCdcRedoMinerConnector error with Oracle 11g large UPDATE statements (#139)
• Fixed wrong Date generation for test redo records
• Corrected "the message value must only be a record schema" error
• Dockerfile fix for CVE-2025-67030

Security fix: Dockerfile fix for GHSA-72hv-8253-57qq and CVE-2026-1605.

Flexible topic naming: New strategy for specifying a Kafka topic by table name - KafkaFlexibleTopicNameMapper. See the RedoMiner Connector documentation for details.

Advanced compression: Correct processing of compressed KDOIRP vector.

Bug fixes

Code cleanup: split code into core CDC code and code specific to the Kafka Connect ecosystem.

Bug fixes