ticdc v4.0.0

Note: The current version of TiCDC is still experimental and not recommended for use in a production environment.

Changed Behaviors

• Optimized the structure of Changefeed configuration file #588
• Filter transactions by the start ts instead of the commit ts #589

New Features

• Check the validity of Sink URI when creating the Changefeed #561
• Check the PD and TiKV versions when starting TiCDC Server #570
• Optimized the table scheduling mechanism to support scheduling multiple tables in one tick period #572
• Add the node role information in HTTP API #591

Bug Fix

• Fix some data race problems #565 #566
• Fix some leakage or blocking issues when releasing resources #574 #586
• Fix the problem that cli will block when unable to connect to PD #579

ticdc v4.0.0-beta.2

Initial release of the change data capture, providing following features in this release

• Support capturing change data from TiKV since v4.0.0-beta.2
• Support replicating change data to MySQL protocol compatible database, with a eventual consistency guarantee
• Support replicating change data to Kafka, with either a eventual consistency guarantee or row level order guarantee
• Provide a native support for high availability