DuckDB 1.0 (via) Six years in the making. The most significant feature in this milestone is stability of the file format: previous releases often required files to be upgraded to work with the new version.
This release also aspires to provide stability for both the SQL dialect and the C API, though these may still change with sufficient warning in the future.
Recent articles
- Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
- Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
- sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025