As we approach the final stages of the Debezium 3.6 release cycle, we’re excited to announce the release of Debezium 3.6.0.CR1 , the first candidate release for this milestone. This release delivers several notable enhancements, including Spanner Omni compatibility, a monitoring REST API and multi-panel dashboard in Debezium Platform, JDBC sink support in Platform, off-heap memory management for table history and schemas using RocksDB, and performance improvements that significantly reduce allocation and CPU overhead in the MySQL connector’s poll path. On the bug-fix front, this release resolv