anchor.diff:  == Debezium Server
   
   Should I pick one feature I'm the most excited about, it would be Debezium Server.
  -It allows to benefit even more folks from open-source change data capture with Debezium,
  +It allows even more users to benefit from open-source change data capture with Debezium,
   no matter which messaging infrastructure they are on.
   Being able to propagate Debezium data change events via managed services such as Kinesis and Pub/Sub was a feature request we've received again and again from the community,
  -and it's great to see this feature eventually becoming a reality.
  +and it's amazing to see that this feature eventually becomes a reality.
   
   Debezium Server will also be a great foundation for exposing Debezium as a native https://knative.dev/docs/eventing/[Knative Eventing] event source, and you can expect to see more exciting developments in this area very soon.
   With Debezium Server, there's now link:/documentation/reference/1.2/architecture.html[three ways] for running Debezium:
  
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  I'm really excited about all the opportunties which this brings to the Debezium community.
  Debezium Server is powered by the innovative https://quarkus.io/[Quarkus] framework, which also opens up many interesting technical possibilities.
  E.g. we could explore running Debezium connectors as native binaries via GraalVM,
  resulting in a largely reduced memory consumption, which could make this a very interesting deployment option for cloud environments.
  
  == A Big Thank You to the Community!
  
  Please refer to the original announcements (link:/blog/2020/04/16/debezium-1-2-alpha1-released/[Alpha1], link:/blog/2020/05/07/debezium-1-2-beta1-released/[Beta1], link:/blog/2020/05/19/debezium-1-2-beta2-released/[Beta2], link:/blog/2020/06/11/debezium-1-2-cr1-released/[CR1]) to learn more about these and other new features.
  You can find the complete list of addressed issues, upgrade procedures, and notes on any backward compatibility changes in the link:/releases/1.2/release-notes/#release-1.2.0-final[release notes].
  
  An open-source project would be nothing without its community of users in contributors;
  
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  == Outlook
  
  Let's close this post with an outlook to the next things to come.
  We'll stick to our quarterly release cadence, i.e. you can expect Debezium 1.3 to be out by the end of September,
  with preview releases in between every three weeks.
  
  We're https://github.com/debezium/debezium.github.io/pull/469[currently updating] the roadmap for the release,
  and your input and feedback on this will be very welcomed!
  The things we've planned so far include more flexible options for snapshotting (re-snapshotting specific tables, filter changes, parallelized snapshotting, etc.),
  moving Db2 connector out of incubating state, and an exploration of what it'd take to officially support MariaDB.
  
  Onwards and upwards!
  
  