Datastream now supports MongoDB extended JSON canonical mode as the default format for new streams from MongoDB sources to BigQuery destinations.

Datastream now supports replicating SQL Server GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY spatial data types.

For more information, see the following:

Datastream now supports partial backfill for SQL Server, Spanner, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL sources.

Partial backfill lets you load a specific subset of data from the source into the destination by providing a SQL WHERE clause as a custom filter.