Hi devs, As Flink CDC 3.5 was released recently, it's a good time to kick off the upcoming Flink CDC 3.6 release cycle.
For a long time, we have received significant feedback from community users regarding the need to upgrade Flink/Debezium version dependencies. We plan to gradually address these requests in the upcoming releases. Moreover, as the framework's capabilities continue to enhance, we will devote more effort to providing more robust connectors. In this version, we will focus on the following development tasks: 1. Upgrade the Flink dependency to version 2.2 and integrate new features from the higher Flink version. This involves adding FLIP-27 API-based implementations to the current TiDB and Vitess connectors, which are currently implemented using the SourceFunction interface. 2. Add synchronized schema evolution support to the PostgreSQL Pipeline connector and introduce a new Kafka Pipeline Source connector, which has been frequently reported by users. 3. Add support for LanceDB/Milvus pipeline connectors and explore YAML-based configuration for RAG scenarios. For developers who are interested in participating and contributing new features in this release cycle, please feel free to create a task that targets cdc-3.6.0 to trace your planning features [1]. I'm happy to volunteer as a release manager and of course open to work together with someone on this. To ensure that we can complete the above plan, we plan to complete the development of Flink CDC 3.6 in 2026-02-28. Best, Yanquan [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Flink%20CDC%22
