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Stitch

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Velocity5.0

Cloud ETL service for replicating data from SaaS sources into a data warehouse

Stitch is in connector maintenance mode — OAuth upgrades and auth hardening across Workday, Twilio, and Outbrain.

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Current state
Stitch's recent output is entirely connector-level updates: OAuth 2.0 additions to Workday and Workday RaaS (replacing username/password auth), incremental sync for Workday, auth stream exclusion fixes for Twilio and Outbrain, and Python runtime upgrades for Amplitude and Salesforce Marketing Cloud. There are no platform-level changes visible — the product is operating as a managed connector library with periodic individual connector updates rather than shipping any cross-cutting platform work.
Where it's heading
The pattern across these releases is auth modernization — username/password authentication being replaced with OAuth 2.0 across enterprise connectors — which suggests either compliance pressure or partner API deprecations driving the timeline rather than a product roadmap initiative. Python runtime upgrades across multiple connectors indicate a dependency maintenance cycle, not feature development. Without any platform-level releases visible, Stitch appears to be in sustaining mode under Talend/Qlik ownership.
Prediction
The near-term work will continue to be driven by individual connector API changes and auth requirement updates from source systems; expect OAuth migrations to continue across older connectors that still use legacy auth schemes.

Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Twilio (v1): Remove unauth streams in discovery and add metadata

    The Twilio connector removes unauthorized streams from catalog discovery and adds metadata — fixing an issue where users would see and attempt to sync streams they don't have access to, which caused errors. A real usability fix for the Twilio integration.

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  2. 16d ago

    Workday RaaS (v1): Add OAuth 2.0 support and remove username/password authentication

    Workday RaaS drops username/password auth in favor of OAuth 2.0 — a forced migration for anyone using the legacy credential model. This follows Workday's API security requirements and mirrors the same change made to the base Workday connector two weeks earlier.

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  3. 22d ago

    Outbrain (v2): Exclude un-auth streams from catalog while discovery

    Outbrain v2 excludes unauthorized streams from catalog discovery — the same class of fix as the Twilio update, preventing sync errors caused by streams the account can't access. A targeted correctness fix for the Outbrain connector.

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  4. 28d ago

    Zendesk Support (v2): Bump aiohttp from 3.14.1 to 3.14.3

    Zendesk Support v2 bumps aiohttp from 3.14.1 to 3.14.3, a dependency update with no user-visible behavioral change. Standard library maintenance.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Workday connector gains OAuth 2.0 and incremental sync

    Workday v1 adds OAuth 2.0 authentication and incremental sync — the two most-requested reliability improvements for enterprise Workday pipelines. Incremental sync in particular reduces load on Workday's API and avoids full re-pulls on each pipeline run, which was a common pain point for large orgs.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Snapchat Ads (v1): Update metadata for child parent relationship

    Snapchat Ads v1 updates metadata for the child-parent stream relationship — a schema metadata fix rather than any data or authentication change. Maintenance-level.

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