SingleStore 7.6 was released on November 10th, 2021. Below you can find the release highlights. In addition, you can see the complete feature list on our Release Notes page.
Release Highlights
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Point-in-time recovery (PITR) has moved from preview to production status and is now supported for production use cases.
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By default, all backups are now lock-free. As a result, distributed write transactions no longer have to wait when a backup starts.
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Added support for the current user security model in stored procedures. In this model, when the current user executes a stored procedure, the stored procedure is executed using the security permissions of that user.
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Added support on Azure for unlimited storage databases and point-in-time recovery (PITR).
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As a preview feature, added support on Google Cloud Storage (GCS) for unlimited storage databases and point-in-time recovery (PITR).
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Added support for transactions in Kafka pipelines.
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Added support for new vector functions, namely JSON_ARRAY_UNPACK, SCALAR_VECTOR_MUL, VECTOR_ADD, and VECTOR_MUL.
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Added support for external functions as a preview feature. An external function calls code that is executed outside of a SingleStore database. For more information, see CREATE [OR REPLACE] EXTERNAL FUNCTION.
For a list of all new features and bug fixes, see the maintenance release changelog.