During November 2025, Poonam Meghnani enhanced the Debezium/debezium repository by improving Oracle AI Database version compatibility parsing. She developed a new regex-based logic in Java to extract version information from the Oracle database banner, addressing the challenge of supporting evolving Oracle AI Database releases. This approach increased the resilience of version detection to banner variations, reducing future compatibility issues and maintenance overhead. Poonam’s work focused on forward-looking improvements rather than immediate bug fixes, and she ensured code quality through clear commit messages and unit testing. The update strengthened the connector’s adaptability to new Oracle AI Database versions.