Astra Streaming release notes
This page summarizes significant changes and updates to Astra Streaming.
October 2026
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- Removed features
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The GPT schema translator is discontinued for the Astra DB Sink Connector. The Generate mapping with GPT option is no longer available in the Cassandra Enhanced sink configuration. Generate Mapping is unchanged.
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June 2023
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Added support for the Azure
westeurope(Amsterdam, Netherlands) region. -
The GPT schema translator is now available for the Astra DB Sink Connector.
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Added support for the AWS
eu-west-1(Dublin, Ireland) region.
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May 2023
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Added support for AWS
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Added support for Spring Boot.
You can use this Java framework to build your Astra Streaming applications. For more information, see Spring Boot for Astra Streaming.
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April 2023
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Custom functions require a paid Astra Streaming plan.
February 2023
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Launched a refreshed Astra Portal.
November 2022
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Added support for the Azure
australiaeast(New South Wales, Australia) region. -
Astra Streaming now supports transform functions.
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Astra Streaming now supports georeplication.
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June 2022
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Astra Streaming now supports scraping metrics with Prometheus.
April 2022
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Starlight for RabbitMQ is now available, bringing built-in RabbitMQ® protocol support to Apache Pulsar™, enabling migration of existing RabbitMQ applications and services to Pulsar without modifying the code.
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Starlight for Kafka is now available, bringing built-in Apache Kafka® protocol support to Pulsar.
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March 2022
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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CDC for Astra DB is now available, which automatically captures changes in real time, de-duplicates the changes, and streams the clean set of changed data into Astra Streaming where it can be processed by client applications or sent to downstream systems.
January 2022
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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Astra Streaming is now generally available.
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Added support for the Google Cloud
us-central1(Council Bluffs, Iowa) region. -
Pulsar tokens simplify connecting to your streaming instances.
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Enabled billing.
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December 2021
This release includes the following changes and updates:
- New features and enhancements
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The public preview of Astra Streaming brings the ability to quickly create Apache Pulsar™ instances, manage your clusters, scale across cloud regions, and manage Pulsar resources such as topics, connectors, functions and subscriptions.
- Security updates
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Security upgrade to Log4J 2.17.0 to mitigate CVE-2021-45105.
