Product release lifecycle

In RisingWave, the release of product typically follows three main stages:

  1. Technical preview: The technical preview stage is where we release a new feature for testing and feedback. It’s not fully polished or finalized and is subject to change. We cannot guarantee its continued support in future releases, and it may be discontinued without notice. You may use this feature at your own risk.

  2. Public preview: The public preview stage is where we’ve incorporated feedback from the technical preview and are nearing the final product. It’s more stable than the technical preview, but there may still be some bugs and issues. During this stage, the corresponding guides are available in the official documentation for your reference. For the overview of all such features, see the list below.

  3. General availability (GA): All other features are considered to be generally available. The general availability stage is where the feature is fully developed, tested, and ready for use in production environments.

Features in the public preview stage

As introduced above, when you see a “Public preview” note in the documentation, it indicates that a feature has not yet achieved 100% stability. We recommend evaluating the feature according to your specific use case. If you encounter any issues with the feature, please contact us via our Slack channel. We also welcome any of your feedback to help us improve it.

Below is a list of all features in the public preview phase:

Feature nameStart version
Ingest data from webhook2.1
Shared source2.1
ASOF join2.1
Partitioned Postgres CDC table2.1
Map type2.0
Azure Blob sink2.0
Approx percentile2.0
Auto schema change in MySQL CDC2.0
SQL Server CDC source2.0
Sink data in Parquet format2.0
Time travel queries2.0
Manage secrets2.0
Amazon DynamoDB sink1.10
Auto-map upstream table schema in MySQL and PostgreSQL1.10
Version column1.9
Snowflake sink1.9
Subscription1.9
RisingWave as PostgreSQL FDW1.9
Iceberg source1.8
Google BigQuery sink1.4
SET BACKGROUND_DDL command1.3
Decouple sinks1.3
Pulsar sink1.3
Cassandra sink1.2
Elasticsearch sink1.2
NATS sink1.2
NATS source1.2
Append-only tables1.1
Emit on window close1.1
Read-only transactions1.1
AWS Kinesis sink1.0
CDC Citus source0.19
Iceberg sink0.18
Pulsar source0.1

This table will be updated regularly to reflect the latest status of features as they progress through the release stages.