0.4.4 -- 2026-01-30

Release Notes

Added

• Implement simple strategy to restart WAL log if possible (Nikita Sivukhin)
• core/mvcc: Add support for synchronous off mode (Pekka Enberg)

Updated

• Remove unused lints, variables and functions (Pedro Muniz)
• WAL auto truncation: increase epoch to prevent stale pages reuse (Nikita Sivukhin)
• Refactor core/lib.rs Connection impl out to its own file (Preston Thorpe)
• Replace GPL-2.0 bloom crate with MIT-licensed fastbloom (Jussi Saurio)
• core: Use fast monotonic time when possible (Pekka Enberg)

Fixed

• Fix wal checkpoint (Nikita Sivukhin)
• Busy snapshot bugfix (Nikita Sivukhin)
• fix(vdbe): CHAR() function should handle full Unicode range (Mikaël Francoeur)
• do not call unlock_after_restart in case of error during wal truncation - because we already released these locks earlier (Nikita Sivukhin)
• properly unlock WriteLock if restart failed and ignore Busy errors when attempt to restart WAL file failed (Nikita Sivukhin)
• Checkpoint restart fix (Nikita Sivukhin)
• core/vdbe/sorter: Propagate write errors instead of corrupting data (Preston Thorpe)
• fix/connect: read page1 in transaction to prevent illegal WAL read (Jussi Saurio)
• fix(parser): reject duplicate PRIMARY KEY clauses on a single column (Mikaël Francoeur)
• fix: fsync DB file before truncating WAL after checkpoint (Jussi Saurio)
• fix/vdbe: convert BusySnapshot to Busy if conn rolled back (Jussi Saurio)
• sdk-kit: Export busy snapshot error to callers (Pekka Enberg)

Install turso_cli 0.4.4

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.4.4/turso_cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.4.4/turso_cli-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download turso_cli 0.4.4

File	Platform	Checksum
turso_cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
turso_cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
turso_cli-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
turso_cli-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
turso_cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo tursodatabase/turso

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>