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sqlite-utils 4.0a0. New alpha release of sqlite-utils, my Python library and CLI tool for manipulating SQLite databases.

It's the first 4.0 alpha because there's a (minor) backwards-incompatible change: I've upgraded the .upsert() and .upsert_all() methods to use SQLIte's UPSERT mechanism, INSERT INTO ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE. Details in this issue.

That feature was added to SQLite in version 3.24.0, released 2018-06-04. I'm pretty cautious about my SQLite version support since the underlying library can be difficult to upgrade, depending on your platform and operating system.

I'm going to leave the new alpha to bake for a little while before pushing a stable release. Since this is a major version bump I'm going to take the opportunity to see if there are any other minor API warts that I can clean up at the same time.