Airbyte 1.6

The Easter Bunny reports a shortage of eggs this year, but there are plenty of new features in Airbyte, so we're cracking 🐣 open a new version just for you. Airbyte 1.6 was released on April 3, 2025. We're excited to share new improvements and changes to the Airbyte platform.

🚀 Platform changes

These changes improve Airbyte for everyone.

Connection page dashboard

Connection pages now include a dashboard that visualizes sync successes and failures. This high-level view gives you quick insight into the health of your syncs over hours, days, and weeks. Track down intermittent failures, even after a connection becomes healthy again. With one click, you can get more information about a point in time, and fast access to any problematic sync in your workspace. Learn more >

Schema configuration updates in the connection Timeline

When someone makes a change to a connection's schema, Airbyte now logs an event in the connection's Timeline page. This data can help you understand why sync behaviors or record volumes suddenly changed. Learn more >

Copy JSON from connectors

All connectors now have a Copy JSON button in the Airbyte UI. This button generates a JSON object matching the configuration of that connector. It's ready for use in Airbyte's API and Terraform provider. Learn more >

Airbyte source connector example

{
  "name": "Airbyte",
  "workspaceId": "c0e5b294-2c71-475b-ae9c-6d70b36ff4f4",
  "definitionId": "284f6466-3004-4d83-a9b2-e4b36cbbbd41",
  "configuration": {
    "client_id": "******", // Replace this with your real client ID.
    "start_date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "client_secret": "******" // Replace this with your real client secret.
  }
}

Connector Builder improvements

Airbyte's Connector Builder has new features to target more advanced and complex API sources: asynchronous endpoints, non-REST APIs, new response formats, and more.

Asynchronous streams

The Connector Builder UI now supports asynchronous streams, allowing you to handle scenarios where data extraction happens over multiple steps. Some APIs that handle large datasets or perform resource-intensive operations do not support synchronous requests. By setting up a stream as asynchronous, you can separate creating a request, polling for a response, and downloading the response into distinct steps. Learn more >

GraphQL request body

You can write request bodies as free form GraphQL queries with built-in syntax validation.

Handle CSV, gzip, and ZIP response formats

Airbyte has two new ways to handle API responses in the Connector Builder.

• CSV decoding: Make requests to sources that respond in CSV format and set expected delimiter and encoding options.

• Nested decoding. Make requests to sources that respond with compressed gzip or zip files, then set a nested decoding option to handle the unzipped contents within.

Learn More >

Create custom connectors from YAML or Docker images

You can now create and update custom connectors using a Connector Builder YAML manifest or Docker image. The following endpoints are available.

For YAML source definitions:

• GET/POST - /workspaces/{workspaceId}/definitions/declarative_sources - List/Create YAML source definitions
• GET/PUT/DELETE - /workspaces/{workspaceId}/definitions/declarative_sources/{definitionId} - Get/Update/Delete a specific YAML source definition

For source definitions:

• GET/POST - /workspaces/{workspaceId}/definitions/sources - List/Create source definitions
• GET/PUT/DELETE - /workspaces/{workspaceId}/definitions/sources/{definitionId} - Get/Update/Delete a specific source definition

For destination definitions:

• GET/POST /workspaces/{workspaceId}/definitions/destinations - List/Create destination definitions
• GET/PUT/DELETE /workspaces/{workspaceId}/definitions/destinations/{definitionId} - Get/Update/Delete a specific destination definition

You can't use these endpoints to modify Airbyte's public connector definitions. If you're using the Cloud version of Airbyte, you can only create or modify custom connectors using a YAML manifest.

API reference docs >

🚀 Self-Managed Enterprise changes

These changes bring new capabilities to Airbyte's Self-Managed Enterprise customers.

Multi-region Airbyte deployments

Self-Managed Enterprise customers can now use the public API to define regions and create self-registering data planes that operate in those regions. You tie these regions to Airbyte workspaces, ensuring each workspace moves data in the region of your choice. You can use the API or the Organization Settings in Airbyte's UI to identify the region associated with each of your workspaces, ensuring you're satisfying your data residency and governance requirements.

Unique stream prefixes or namespaces are now mandatory

Airbyte now requires that stream identifiers be unique across Airbyte connections that share a destination. You can no longer set multiple connections to sync to the same destination stream.

A common scenario looks like this: you have multiple source accounts and want to sync all this data to a single table in your destination. Although convenient, doing this carried a risk of data loss as multiple connections clashed with each other while writing to the same table.

After careful consideration, Airbyte has stopped supporting this. You must use a unique prefix for each stream or use unique namespaces in each connection. Then, you can combine your tables downstream of Airbyte. Learn more >

Full changelog

Full changelog

This is the full list of changes this version. Some changes improve internal tools or are milestones toward future releases, so not every change results in a noticeable change to Airbyte.