AWS aurora-dsql documentation change
Summary
Added July 2026 release notes for ALTER TABLE operations and CDC general availability
Security assessment
New features documented without security context. Schema evolution capabilities and CDC improvements are functional enhancements with no security vulnerability fixes or security-specific features mentioned.
Diff
diff --git a/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/release-notes.md b/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/release-notes.md index de60be6b8..90f010e0a 100644 --- a//aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/release-notes.md +++ b//aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/release-notes.md @@ -14,0 +15,12 @@ This page describes new features, service launches, and important updates for Au +### July 2026 + +July 6, 2026 + + +🐘 _PostgreSQL Compatibility_ — **Additional ALTER TABLE operations** — Aurora DSQL now supports additional `ALTER TABLE` operations: `SET DEFAULT`, `DROP DEFAULT`, `DROP NOT NULL`, `DROP EXPRESSION`, `ADD GENERATED AS IDENTITY`, and `DROP CONSTRAINT`. These metadata DDL operations enable more flexible schema evolution without requiring table recreation. For more information, see [ALTER TABLE](sql-command-alter-table.html). + +July 8, 2026 + + +🆕 _Feature_ — **Change data capture now generally available** — Change data capture (CDC) for Aurora DSQL is now generally available. This release adds distinct operation types (`op: "u"` for updates, `op: "c"` for inserts) and documents write-set compaction, which consolidates multiple changes to the same row within a transaction into a single CDC record. If an application inserts and deletes a row in the same transaction, Aurora DSQL recognizes zero net change and omits the row from the stream. For more information, see [CDC streams](cdc-streams.html). +