Redpanda Connect v4.99.0 - CDC and Iceberg Updates

Redpanda Connect v4.99.0 was published on July 2, 2026, with changes that matter most for CDC pipelines and mutable lakehouse writes. The main item is Iceberg output support for insert, upsert, and delete operations, backed by configurable mappings and equality delete files, which makes the release relevant to teams moving change streams into analytical tables.

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ingestr v1.0.55 - Vitess TLS and Postgres CDC Arrays

ingestr v1.0.55 was published on June 30, 2026, with release notes focused on CDC reliability for Vitess and Postgres. The main change is TLS support for the Vitess CDC VStream connection, which matters when a pipeline reads change events across secured database links. The same release also preserves Postgres CDC array columns and makes BigQuery load errors visible instead of leaving operators with a quiet failure path.

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Apache Flink Recovery and Planner Correctness Work

Apache Flink had 47 commits on master in this review window, with the useful signal sitting in runtime recovery, SQL changelog planning, and state backend cleanup. For data engineers running Flink jobs, this is not a release note. It is a look at the paths that decide how cleanly a job restores state, plans table output, and survives boring production friction.

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