This is the kind of release that makes the prior bugfix feel like clearing the runway. Changelog conversion operators let SQL pipelines work directly with change streams without custom UDFs, and materialized tables bring incremental refresh semantics closer to what you'd expect from a warehouse — but in motion. The release also calls out real-time AI workload support, which tracks with where the Flink community has been heading. Flink Agents 0.3.0 (see below) appears to be the complementary piece for agent-style workloads. If you were waiting on 2.x SQL maturity before migrating from DataStream API heavy lifting, this is worth a closer look.