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

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.

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

Canonical mode provides higher data fidelity by explicitly labeling every BSON type to prevent precision loss during data exchange.