SharePlex 11.4 - Upgrade Guide

What's New in this Release

Compare/Repair commands support:

SharePlex now supports the Compare and Repair commands for PostgreSQL database as both a source and a target.

Data Types support:

SharePlex now supports the JSON and JSONB data types for PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL replication.

Note: JSON and JSONB data types are supported only with logical replication.

Snowflake Performance Enhancement:

SharePlex now supports the replication of bulk updates and deletes for the Snowflake database as a target, excluding the following advanced data types:

• RAW, LONGRAW, BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, BINARY_FLOAT (for Oracle databases)

• CHAR(2000), VARCHAR(4000), TEXT, BYTEA (for PostgreSQL databases)

Database/Platform Support:

• This release includes support for PostgreSQL 16 and PostgreSQL Enterprise Database (EDB) 16 as both a source and a target.

• This release includes support for Kafka 3.3 and 3.6.1 as a target.

• This release includes support for the following JMS message Queues:

  • Apache ActiveMQ 5.16.7

  • IBM MQ 9.3

• This release includes support for Snowflake 8.1 as a target.

Operating System support:

This release includes support for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 9.x.

Other features:

• This release includes support for Azure Flexible Server with high availability using logical replication.

• This release includes support for communication protocol TLS 1.3 for all supported Unix platforms.

• This release includes support for Docker containers.