Six more connectors have moved into Airbyte's certified tier: the MySQL source, Gmail, Ashby, Pipedrive, Reddit Ads, and Zoom. Airbyte engineers now own the maintenance and support of all six connectors, giving you more robust coverage and upgrade windows when changes could break your connections.
This batch covers a wide spread of what Airbyte users sync daily: a production database, email data, employee applicant tracking, customer management, ad analytics, and meeting metrics. Each one responds to needs we identified from the Airbyte Community. MySQL syncs are now much faster, and three of these sources (Gmail, Ashby, and Pipedrive) carry the kind of long, text-heavy records that give agents rich business context for decision making.
What certification means for these six Certified connectors are tested and vetted by Airbyte before release; if a connector breaks, Airbyte owns the fix. We tested every stream against live credentials, corrected declared schemas and primary keys to match each API, replaced silent failures with explicit codes and messages, and ran regression comparisons before release.
For the full breakdown of marketplace, certified, and enterprise connectors, see our last certification post on Linear, Gong, and YouTube Data .
MySQL: Up to 10 times faster on the same hardware MySQL is the first source in Airbyte's faster sync speed initiative. On supported connections, syncs run between 4 and 10 times faster than they did historically. Even better: they do it with fewer resources.
Airbyte benchmarked a 170.68 GB MySQL to S3 sync on Google Compute Engine:
Node type
Before
After
Total resources
C4 (high-performance CPU)1 h 35 m
22 m (about 4x faster)
12 CPU / 12 GB down to 9 CPU / 9 GB (about 25% fewer)
N2D (medium-performance CPU)5 h 21 m
1 h (about 5x faster)
6 CPU / 6 GB down to 5 CPU / 5 GB (about 17% fewer)
When converting the MySQL source, we also targeted the slowest, riskiest part: the initial snapshot of a large table.
Better partitioning for large tables. Concurrent snapshots now split tables with BIGINT UNSIGNED primary keys, text primary keys in legacy character sets, and GUID keys containing sentinel values. Each of these previously limited how far a snapshot could parallelize.
Checkpoints on single-partition reads. When a table can't be split, the connector now reads it with a resumable reader that emits state at the checkpoint interval. A multi-hour snapshot that fails partway through resumes from its last checkpoint instead of starting over.
Steadier CDC. Binlog EOF errors and dropped connections now retry as transient failures, and a GTID set that gains a new server UUID no longer breaks CDC state.
Keep the following things in mind when you migrate to the certified connector. Sync speed now correlates directly to CPU performance, so if you self-manage Airbyte on Kubernetes, pick compute-optimized nodes to improve syncs. Additionally, both ends of the connection must support the new version. On the destination side, that's currently S3, Azure Blob Storage, BigQuery, and ClickHouse. To turn it on:
Airbyte Cloud: Run the current connector versions.Airbyte Core (open source) and Flex: Upgrade the platform to 1.8 or later, then upgrade the MySQL source and your destination.Details for each release are in the MySQL changelog.
Gmail, Ashby, and Pipedrive: certified pipelines for text-heavy data An email thread, an interviewer's written feedback, and a note logged on a customer profile all include free text that changes often. They're also the best kind of business context to share with an agent. Certification helps ensure the pipeline for that data is reliable and each connector includes some major upgrades:
Gmail now pages 500 items per request, paces requests to stay inside Gmail's per-user quota, and honors Gmail's retry timing on rate limits. Incremental messages_details reads only fetch messages since the previous sync, with a one-hour lookback.Ashby gained incremental sync for 20 streams using Ashby's sync tokens, so large hiring pipelines no longer re-read every candidate and application for each run. Schemas for applications, job_postings, application_criteria_evaluations, and interviews now match the Ashby API.Pipedrive now defaults to OAuth 2.0, adds product_variations and leads_archived streams, and fails loudly on plan-gated streams instead of returning false empty results.Airbyte context layer for your Gmail inbox An agent searching email has to find the three related messages from a mailbox of thousands. If it calls the Gmail API, that means wasting tokens on pagination and rate limits.
The new Gmail connector helps reduce this spend with the Airbyte MCP and the Airbyte context layer. Airbyte keeps a searchable replica of Gmail messages, threads, labels, and drafts, so an agent filters and aggregates with an indexed query instead of crawling the live API. On top of that, semantic search embeds message text so the agent can match on meaning rather than keywords.
With the Python SDK, a semantic search over message snippets looks like this:
Python
import asyncio
from airbyte_agent_sdk import connect
async def main ():
gmail = connect ("gmail" )
try:
result = await gmail.execute (
"messages" ,
"context_store_search" ,
{
"semantic": {
"field": "snippet" ,
"prompt" : "customer asking to push back their renewal date" ,
},
"limit": 10 ,
},
)
for hit in result.data ["data" ] :
print (hit["metadata" ]["score" ], hit["metadata" ]["context" ])
finally:
await gmail.close ()
asyncio.run (main ())From an MCP client, you don't write the call at all. Ask your agent to find emails where a customer raised a renewal question, and it can access semantic search to serve up the most relevant emails.
You can see how this pattern saves tokens in our benchmarks. The Airbyte context layer used up to 80% fewer tokens and 40% fewer tool calls than native vendor MCPs and APIs on multi-source queries. Agent capabilities cover a growing set of connectors. Check the agent connector docs for the current list.
Reddit Ads: full account structure and reporting Reddit Ads picked up ad_account and ad_group streams plus three report streams:
ad_account_reportad_group_reportad_reportVersion 1.0.0 also aligns timestamp, date, and integer fields with Reddit's API and normalizes report dates to YYYY-MM-DD, so joins against other ad platforms behave predictably.
Reddit Ads campaigns and ads are also searchable through the Airbyte context layer, which lets an agent answer questions like "which campaigns are paused, and what are their objectives?" without paginating through API calls.
Zoom: measure meeting and webinar engagement Engagement questions often span systems. Did webinar attendees later book a demo? Which poll answers predict a closed deal? Which recurring meetings run with half the invite list missing? You can now use the certified Zoom connector to join meeting data with your CRM and email marketing to fully answer each question.
Attendance. report_meeting_participants and report_webinar_participants record who joined each session when, how long they stayed, and when they left. Pair them with meeting_registrants, webinar_registrants, and webinar_absentees to build a full funnel that connects registration to attendance for every session.
Interaction. meeting_poll_results and webinar_poll_results capture how each participant answered each poll while webinar_qna_results captures questions. Poll response rates and question volume show which sessions held attention. Individual responses and questions can be added to your CRM entry for follow ups.
Acquisition. webinar_tracking_sources records which registration link each registrant used, allowing you to assign attribution back to the email, social post, or partner content.
You also help preserve your history on Zoom when you replicate the data from these streams. Zoom only maintains report data for roughly six months, so syncing them to your warehouse lets you compare this quarter's webinar attendance with the same quarter last year.
Certification brought several reliability changes to these streams:
meetings, webinars, report_meetings, and report_meeting_participants now sync incrementally, so scheduled syncs read only new and changed sessions instead of re-requesting six months of reports.The connector honors Zoom's Retry-After header on rate limits, and refreshes OAuth tokens that expire mid-sync. Syncs no longer fail on users without meeting hosting rights, on deleted meetings and webinars, or on webinar IDs that contain slashes. OAuth 2.0 is now the default authentication, and existing Server-to-Server configurations migrate automatically. The report streams require a Zoom Pro plan or higher and the webinar streams require a Zoom webinar license. Zoom's past-meetings report also omits sessions with fewer than two participants, so one-person sessions don't produce report rows.
Before you upgrade MySQL's certification release has no breaking changes. The other five need a quick check:
Connector
Version
What changes
What to do
Gmail 1.0.0
Adds a primary key to profile; count and size fields become integers
Refresh the source schema. If a destination can't retype the columns, refresh the affected stream. Messages deleted since your original sync won't come back, so back up first. See the migration guide.
Ashby 2.0.0
Corrects schemas for four streams
Refresh the source schema, then refresh applications to rewrite archiveReason. Connections auto-upgrade on November 30, 2026. See the migration guide.
Pipedrive 4.2.0
OAuth 2.0 becomes the default; existing API tokens move into credentials automatically
No action needed. Confirm your configuration after upgrading.
Reddit Ads 1.0.0
Field types match Reddit's API
Refresh the source schema. S3 Data Lake and other Iceberg destinations can't retype columns in place, so back up report tables before clearing them. See the migration guide.
Zoom 2.0.0
Key and schema changes on 18 streams; timestamps become date-time types and webinar_id becomes an integer; meeting reports move to session-level reports
Before upgrading, add report:read:user:admin (granular) or report:read:admin (classic) to your Zoom app if you sync the meeting report streams, then re-authenticate OAuth connections. Refresh the source schema, back up Full Refresh, Append streams first, and switch the meeting report streams to Incremental. Connections auto-upgrade on November 23, 2026. See the migration guide.
Connections that sync only Reddit Ads ad_account and ad_group, or that don't sync the four affected Ashby streams, need no action.
What's next More certifications are in the queue. If a marketplace connector you rely on belongs at the top, tell us in the Airbyte Community Slack and include roughly how much data you move through it.
