If the mapping source contains null values and you use the

Create Target

option to create a Parquet target file, the default schema contains optional fields and you can insert null values to the target.

Previously, all the fields were created as REQUIRED in the default schema and you had to manually update the data type in the target schema from "required" to "Optional" to write the columns with null values to the target.

If the mapping source contains null values and you use the

Create Target

option to create an Avro target file, null values are defined in the default schema and you can insert null values into the target file.

Previously, the null values were not defined in the default schema and you had to manually update the default target schema to add "null" data type to the schema.