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 dateStart version
Partitioned Postgres CDC table2024.92.0
Map type2024.82.0
Azure Blob sink2024.82.0
Approx percentile2024.82.0
Auto schema change in MySQL CDC2024.82.0
SQL Server CDC source2024.82.0
Sink data in parquet format2024.82.0
Time travel queries2024.72.0
Manage secrets2024.72.0
Amazon DynamoDB sink2024.61.10
Auto-map upstream table schema in MySQL CDC and PostgreSQL CDC2024.61.10
Version column2024.61.9
Snowflake sink2024.51.9
Subscription2024.51.9
RisingWave as PostgreSQL FDW2024.41.9
Iceberg source2024.31.8
Google BigQuery sink2023.111.4
SET BACKGROUND_DDL command2023.101.3
Decouple sinks2023.101.3
Pulsar sink2023.101.3
Cassandra sink2023.91.2
Elasticsearch sink2023.91.2
NATS sink2023.91.2
NATS source2023.91.2
Append-only tables2023.81.1
Emit on window close2023.81.1
Read-only transactions2023.81.1
AWS Kinesis sink2023.71.0
CDC Citus source2023.50.19
Iceberg sink2023.40.18
Pulsar source2022.120.1

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