🧩 If you have played The New York Times Connections Puzzle and found it to be devilishly difficult, worry not. Tom Jakubowski's connections.duckdb project that lets you check your guesses – or outright cheat to solve the puzzle. Up to you!
🔗 github.com/tomjakubowsk...
📉 We decided to postpone the DuckDB release to next week to land some bug fixes and improve the robustness of the system. Sorry about that!
📈 In the meantime, we have a cool new thing to announce – you can now install the DuckDB CLI using Python's pip:
pip install duckdb-cli
🗓️ This year, we came up with new merchandise: the 2026 Friendly DuckDB calendar, which has a SQL feature for every month along with art inspired by the feature.
⬇️ If you were lucky to get one at our events, that's great! :) If not, you can still grab the PDF at blobs.duckdb.org/merch/duckdb...
🌏 We are happy to announce the first DuckCon in the APAC region: DuckCon #7 will take place in the National Gallery Singapore on 2026-05-05.
🗳️ Registration and the Call for Talks are open! Submit your proposals until 2026-03-18.
➡️ duckdb.org/events/2026/...
Hi Klaus, unfortunately not – this is currently an in-person position.
🏗️ The DuckDB team is working hard on delivering DuckDB v1.5.
🌃 While the official release is next week, you can already give it a quick test using the nightly builds available at duckdb.org/install/prev...
If you encounter any issues, let us know! 🐛💬
🦆 ↔️ 🦀 DuckDB Labs is looking for a Rust engineer to join our team in Amsterdam.
📝 See the details and application page at duckdblabs.com/jobs/rust_en...
🎞️ The slide decks and talk recordings of last Friday's developer meeting are out! duckdb.org/events/2026/...
📆 The DuckDB Developer Meeting in Amsterdam starts tomorrow! We'll have a deep-dive extension development workshop in the morning and four exciting talks in the afternoon.
🎟️ Last chance to register at duckdb.org/events/2026/...
DuckDB 1.4.4 LTS is out:
duckdb.org/2026/01/26/a...
The last time we had a “.4” patch release was in 2022 for version 0.3.4. Of course, the project was at a very different stage then.
We hope that this release irons out most of the bugs that you encountered in v1.4. Let us know!
DuckDB now supports reading from and writing to the Vortex file format! The DuckDB Labs and Spiral teams have worked together to make Vortex available as a core extension in DuckDB.
We gave it a test drive, and it performed very well. Read the full article to learn more lnkd.in/eZfGzPiZ
We are going to hold the first DuckDB Developer Meeting in two weeks in Amsterdam! On the day of the meeting, DuckDB Community Extensions development champion Rusty Conover will also give a workshop on DuckDB extension development.
Check out the programme and sign up at duckdb.org/events/2026/...
🖥️ In today's “What's on your desk?” episode, @hannes.muehleisen.org tests the MOREFINE M700S computer. This computer ships with a Loongson processor that comes with its own CPU architecture. Despite this, DuckDB runs on it quite easily. See the details in the blog post.
➡️ duckdb.org/2026/01/06/d...
🏛️ We launched the DuckDB Library: a curated collection of papers, podcasts, talks and books about DuckDB.
📚 We already have a collection of almost one hundred entities. The thumbnails show whether a piece is from the DuckDB team (yellow) or from others (purple).
➡️ duckdb.org/library/
You can now query Iceberg catalogs with DuckDB – from the convenience of your browser.
In our latest blog post, we break down how DuckDB's WebAssembly client makes this possible with zero setup and showcase it in action using Amazon S3 Tables.
👉 duckdb.org/2025/12/16/i...
In seven weeks, we will host the first DuckDB Developer Meeting in Amsterdam.
We have four exciting talks lined up on building extensions in DuckDB, encryption in DuckDB, DuckPL and GizmoEdge.
For more details and the registration links, please head to duckdb.org/events/2026/...
DuckLake now supports data inlining with PostgreSQL and SQLite catalogs! You can avoid the small files problem in your lakehouse with any DuckLake supported catalog.
Update your DuckLake extension in any client on DuckDB 1.4.x to use this feature.
P.S. Don't forget to flush!
We are happy to announce DuckDB v1.4.3 LTS, our latest patch release. Along with bugfixes, this release ships native extensions and Python support for Windows ARM64. Head to duckdb.org/2025/12/09/a... for the announcement blog post and installation instructions.
Hi, we added another alternative installation method using the Posit Public Package Manager:
You can also try installing from r-universe:
install.packages("duckdb", repos = c("https://duckdb.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))
See r.duckdb.org for more details.
Hi, you can make DuckDB's R builds parallel by creating the ~/.R/Makevars file and adding a line with the number of threads available, e.g.:
MAKEFLAGS = -j8
For more details, see the R / Parallelizing the Build documentation section: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
We are hosting the DuckDB Developer Meeting on January 30 (Friday) in Amsterdam, the day before the FOSDEM weekend in Brussels.
This is a new kind of event focused on development in DuckDB and with DuckDB.
Check out the preliminary programme and register at duckdb.org/events/2026/...
In DuckDB v1.4.2, we shipped a number of features and improvements to the DuckDB-Iceberg extension: insert, update, and delete statements are all supported now.
Read Tom Ebergen's new article on these features at duckdb.org/2025/11/28/i...
DuckDB v1.4 introduced the much-requested feature of database encryption. In our new blog post, @ccfelius.bsky.social and @hannes.muehleisen.org explain how the encryption works under the hood: duckdb.org/2025/11/19/e...
DuckDB's website and extension installation endpoint are still intermittently down due to today's Cloudflare outage – see our status page for more details: status.duckdb.org
For a single-file PDF copy of our documentation, see our recent post.
🌊 DuckLake documentation: duckdb.github.io/duckdb-docs-...
Today's Cloudflare outage has affected the DuckDB documentation site. While it seems to be mostly recovered now, it will take some time until everything stabilizes.
If you need to look things up in the DuckDB documentation now, feel free to use our PDF:
duckdb.github.io/duckdb-docs-...
🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition.
🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files.
📖 For more details, read
duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...
📢 The final episode of DuckDB in Research's second season is out!
➗ This week, host Jack Waudby interviews Paul Groß, PhD student at CWI Amsterdam, to explore his work on adaptive factorization and worst-case optimal joins.
🎧 Listen to the episode at duckdb.org/science/paul...
🧭 Great blog post on DuckDB for data scientists!
codecut.ai/deep-dive-in...
