5.16-release-notes

5.16.3 Patch notes

Release date

Cinchy version 5.16.3 was released on August 6, 2025.

• Fixed a regression that could prevent Worker threads from consuming Kafka messages in some environments.
• DXD updated to v1.8.6 which includes support for User Defined Topics.

5.16.2 Patch notes

Release date

Cinchy version 5.16.2 was released on July 18, 2025.

• When updating a table via 'Design Table', the system no longer enforces title case for table and column names. This allows naming conventions to be set by users, and is useful in cases where tables are intended to align with the naming conventions of external systems.
• CQL DDL Create Index queries now support Include columns.

5.16.1 Patch notes

Release date

Cinchy version 5.16.1 was released on June 19, 2025.

• Fixed a regression so that the 'End of Transmission' character no longer appears in exports generated by the Batch Export CLI.
• Fixed an issue where worker shutdown could fail due to uninitialized worker threads.

5.16 Release notes

Upgrade guides

• Upgrading on IIS
• Upgrading on Kubernetes

Release date

Cinchy v5.16 was released on May 21, 2025.

Important changes

• Due to changes in encryption and certificate validation behavior, existing connection strings will be updated (once off) to include Trust Server Certificate=true. This is to preserve existing behaviour, i.e. encryption without certificate validation. If you use a TLS connection with a certificate provisioned on a server, manually remove this directive from the connection strings to enable certificate validation. For new connection strings, this directive should be added to skip certificate validation, or omitted to require it.
• Latest supported EKS and AKS versions updated to v1.32.

Enhancements

• Topics in Kafka real-time syncs now have individual consumer groups; this allows for more stable rebalancing when the load increases/decreases.

warning

To prevent data loss in your real-time syncs when upgrading to v5.16, we recommend that you:

1. Navigate to the [Cinchy].[Listener Config] table and disable all listener configs.
2. Wait until all Kafka messages are processed by the worker.
3. Perform your Cinchy upgrade.
4. Re-enable your listener configs.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a regression (introduced in v5.11) in the Connections CLI whereby the -l short option would specify a PAT rather than a delimiter.
• Columns with JSON data that are synced into Kafka Topic destinations will be correctly formatted when SchemaRegistryConfig is disabled and the data is configured to be a JSON object.