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SharePlex®12.2

Release Notes

Revision: 12/15/2025

Release Notes

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About SharePlex

For over two decades, SharePlex has provided high speed database replication for mission critical database environments.

SharePlex supports a wide variety of configurations to meet different and complex data availability needs. A primary class of use cases revolves around database scaling and availability.

• SharePlex supports reliable Oracle and PostgreSQL high-availability and disaster recovery configurations where replication maintains a duplicate database in a different location that is ready for fast, seamless fail-over and failback in planned or unplanned mode.

• SharePlex also supports bi-directional, active/active configurations with conflict resolution for PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL and Oracle to Oracle to support horizontal scaling and strategic placement of databases near regional users.

• SharePlex can support cross platform (Oracle ← → PostgreSQL) bi-directional, active-active replication with conflict resolution to de-risk Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations in complex Oracle environments.

• SharePlex can improve scaling by offloading Oracle or PostgreSQL reporting workloads.

Another class of use cases involves (generally) cross-platform data movement to support application integration, database interoperability and data lake population. Examples include:

• PostgreSQL and/or Oracle replication to Snowflake to support data warehouse/data lake pipelines

• PostgreSQL and/or Oracle replication to Kafka for real-time streaming analytic applications

• PostgreSQL to Oracle (or) Oracle to PostgreSQL replication to provide interoperability between systems to support database refactoring or migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL.

You can also use SharePlex to replicate data from Oracle source to maintain a change history database in an Oracle target. Rather than updating or deleting target rows based on the source change, SharePlex inserts a new row on the target for every source change. The result is an archive that reflects the chronological history of every change made to the source database.

SharePlex's value and versatility continue to grow with the requirements and requests of our customers. Although SharePlex is a reliable, relatively low-maintenance solution, our top-rated support team is ready around the clock to help with any trouble you may have. To get you started with your deployment, our professional services team is highly experienced and readily available.

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New Features

What's New in this Release

The following new features, enhancements and platforms are supported in this release.

Feature enhancements

The following technical feature enhancements are supported in this release.

AVRO format in Apache Kafka with Confluent Schema Registry integration

SharePlex now supports replicating data from Oracle to Apache Kafka in AVRO format with Confluent Schema Registry integration.

This enhancement provides:

• Efficient data replication while maintaining existing schema governance, forward and backward compatibility, and a reduced payload size.

• A centralized repository for managing schema definitions.

• Consistent schema management through validation and controlled schema evolution policies, helping prevent breaking changes downstream.

Multiple concurrent Capture connections to the same remote Oracle database

SharePlex now supports multiple concurrent Capture connections to the same remote Oracle database.

This enhancement:

• Enables simultaneous DDL monitoring and data replication

• Provides isolation between Capture, Compare, and user command sessions

• Improves resilience and scalability in high-volume environments

Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) for autonomous transaction processing as a target on OCI Cloud

SharePlex now supports replication from Oracle and PostgreSQL to Oracle ADB for autonomous transaction processing database.

This new capability enables hybrid-cloud deployments, cloud-migration initiatives, and analytics workloads using ATP—while continuing to leverage the full SharePlex toolkit for data integrity, target initialization, and discrepancy resolution.

Compare/Repair command on Windows

SharePlex now supports the Compare and Repair commands on Windows when replicating data from Oracle to PostgreSQL.

Enhanced Capture to handle Oracle Data Guard failover

This enhancement enables SharePlex to correctly identify and select the appropriate sequence file following a Data Guard failover, supporting both VIP and non-VIP modes.

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System installer

SharePlex has upgraded its Windows installer technology to NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). This change improves installation flexibility, enhances scripting capabilities, and increases the overall maintainability of the installer package.

Platform support

The following new platform is supported in this release.

Oracle Exadata on AWS/Azure

Resolved Issues and Enhancements

Resolved Issues in this Release

The following is a list of issues addressed in this release of SharePlex.