Release Notes

Documentation: https://ververica.github.io/flink-cdc-connectors/release-2.4

Improvements and Bug fixes

1. [sqlserver] Fix get latest lsn (#2551)
2. [sqlserver] Add support bigint type as table split column (#2416)
3. [hotfix] Fix vitess docker image tag
4. [e2e] Remove db docker image after test cases are executed. (#2508)
5. [postgres] Not drop replication slot for stream split (#2436)
6. [postgres] Close jdbc connection after creating replication slot for stream split (#2425)
7. [cdc-base] Fix TM hangs caused by uncaught exception (#2511)
8. [postgres] Close idle readers when snapshot finished (#2400)
9. [hotfix][mysql] Keep assigned splits in order to fix wrong meta group calculation
10. [mysql] Add finished unack splits to state for the MysqlSourceReader (#2399)
11. [cdc-base] Fix parsing error when serializing and deserializing the table name with dot (#2443)
12. [oracle] Correct the naming error (#2405)
13. [sqlserver] Add table filter to speed up SqlServerSchema read (#2369)
14. [hotfix][sqlserver] Fix backfill stream task hang (#2374)
15. [hotfix][mysql] Trim default value for BIGINT and SMALLINT types when parsing MySQL DDL (#2418)
16. [Doc] Use redo log instead of binlog in Oracle document (#2408)
17. [mysql] Filter databases that do not need to be read when discovering tables (#2160)
18. [test] Fix TiDBE2eITCase by updating the container version to avoid tikv disk full failure (#2402)
19. [test][postgres] Close postgres containers after tests and fix container reuse bug (#2394)
20. [mysql] quota the field names when executing mysql query (#2381) (#2388)
21. [test][mysql] Provide the server-time-zone setting in MySqlSourceExampleTest#testConsumingAllEvents (#2364)
22. [hotfix][mysql] Catch underlying throwable in snapshot reading.
23. [hotfix][mysql] Fix failed test LegacyMySqlSourceTest#testSnapshotOnFailedSource (#2384)
24. [db2] [tests] Fix unstable Db2ConnectorITCase due to cleanup failure
25. [mongodb][hotfix] Fix SourceRecord range check (#2343)
26. [polish] Add type parameter for MySqlRecords(#2300)
27. [doc] fix errors in PostgresParallelSourceExample (#2324)
28. [docs][oracle] Add an example of Incremental Snapshot based DataStream for Oracle CDC Connector
29. [mongodb] [tests] Loosen E2E timeout limitations
30. [build] Add vcs.xml for IDEA (#2064)
31. [hotfix] update dbz option name 'xx. whitelist' to 'xx.include.list'(xx = database, schema or table) (#2212)

Contributor List (sorted alphabetically)

1. BIN
2. FocusComputing
3. GOODBOY008
4. Hang Ruan
5. Hongshun Wang
6. Jiabao Sun
7. Kunni
8. Leonard Xu
9. Malcolmjian
10. North.Lin
11. Paddy Gu
12. Tyrantlucifer
13. e-mhui
14. gongzhongqiang
15. wuzhenhua
16. yuxiqian
17. zhaomin