Merge pull request #1254 from redis/DOC-4944-rdi-rel-notes-161

DOC-4944 added release notes for v1.6.1

Author: andy-stark-redis

config.toml

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ rdi_redis_gears_version = "1.2.6"
 rdi_debezium_server_version = "2.3.0.Final"
 rdi_db_types = "cassandra|mysql|oracle|postgresql|sqlserver"
 rdi_cli_latest = "latest"
-rdi_current_version = "v1.6.0"
+rdi_current_version = "v1.6.1"
 
 [params.clientsConfig]
 "Python"={quickstartSlug="redis-py"}

content/integrate/redis-data-integration/release-notes/rdi-1-6-1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+---
+Title: Redis Data Integration release notes 1.6.1 (March 2025)
+alwaysopen: false
+categories:
+- docs
+- operate
+- rs
+description: Installation on Kubernetes with a Helm chart. Improvements for installation on VMs.
+linkTitle: 1.6.1 (March 2025)
+toc: 'true'
+weight: 991
+---
+
+> This release replaces the 1.6.0 release.
+
+RDI’s mission is to help Redis customers sync Redis Enterprise with live data from their slow disk-based databases to:
+
+- Meet the required speed and scale of read queries and provide an excellent and predictable user experience.
+- Save resources and time when building pipelines and coding data transformations.
+- Reduce the total cost of ownership by saving money on expensive database read replicas.
+
+RDI keeps the Redis cache up to date with changes in the primary database, using a [_Change Data Capture (CDC)_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_data_capture) mechanism.
+It also lets you _transform_ the data from relational tables into convenient and fast data structures that match your app's requirements. You specify the transformations using a configuration system, so no coding is required.
+
+## Headlines
+
+- Fixed missing metrics and incorrect status for SQL Server.
+- Improved Redis Insight autocomplete using schema description property.
+- Restricted Redis connections to targets and non-Redis connections to sources.
+- Enhanced scaffolded `config.yaml` with examples for each database type.
+- VM Installer: Captured output of all sub-processes.
+- Improved error message for critical errors when sending commands to Redis cluster fails.
+- Fixed issue where pipeline status did not return to streaming after stopping and starting.
+- Added RDI API logging, validation examples, and bug fixes.
+- Disabled strict parsing of collector application properties to allow overriding.
+- Fixed HTTP 500 error in `GET /pipelines/sources/{source}/columns` when passing tables parameter.
+- VM setup: Fixed incorrect output status and incomplete upgrades in `upgrade.sh` script.
+- Ensured `collector-api` service force upgrades when `Operator` restarts.
+- Corrected typos in CLI option help messages.
+- Generated and published [API reference page]({{< relref "/integrate/redis-data-integration/reference/api-reference" >}}).
+- Resolved error in `collector-api` when Source secret contains special characters.
+- Fixed RDI 1.6.0 installation failure for HA due to `rdi-operator` deployment timeout.
+- Added support for downloading Debezium image from a private registry.
+- VM Installer now supports Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04.
+- Resolved performance degradation in 1.6.0 that caused the initial sync to be 3-5 times slower.
+
+## Limitations
+
+RDI can write data to a Redis Active-Active database. However, it doesn't support writing data to two or more Active-Active replicas. Writing data from RDI to several Active-Active replicas could easily harm data integrity as RDI is not synchronous with the source database commits.