Prisma

Prisma ORM v8.0.0-rc.8 landed this week alongside @prisma/prisma7, a compatibility package for running Prisma 7 and 8 in the same project.

Side-by-side Prisma 7 and 8 installation is now supported. 7.10.0 introduced @prisma/prisma7; install it with prisma@8 to keep a prisma7 alias for all Prisma 7 CLI commands while upgrading incrementally. 7.10.0 also secured Prisma Studio's local server against unauthorized access.

Prisma 8's RC series is accumulating breaking changes before GA. Projects preparing to migrate should note:

• Config: prisma-next.config.ts and the flat config shape are removed (rc.4); prisma.config.ts using the definePrismaConfig envelope is the only accepted format.
• Commands: ORM commands now mount at unified CLI paths — db migrate, contract format, orm init — standalone aliases retired (rc.5).
• Pagination: .take(n) / .skip(n) on ORM collections renamed to .limit(n) / .offset(n) (rc.7).
• Temporal: PostgreSQL date/time columns return Temporal values or text strings, never Date (rc.6).
• Engine: @prisma/management-api-sdk moved to a peer dependency in rc.8; hosts running the engine outside the unified CLI must install it explicitly.

Earlier 7.x improvements remain active context. Query plan caching (tunable via queryPlanCacheMaxSize) shipped in 7.4.0–7.8.0. Nested transaction savepoints arrived in 7.5.0. prisma bootstrap unified hosted database setup in 7.7.0. Partial indexes are available as a preview feature for PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and CockroachDB.