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Backend changelog digest

Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2026. Useful releases, risky migrations, and noisy updates from the Backend channel.

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Backend updates in 2026-w07

7.4.0

  • Introduce an ORM caching layer with an LRU cache to reuse compiled query plans and reduce event‑loop contention
  • Add preview support for Partial (filtered) Indexes on PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and CockroachDB
  • Fix multiple issues: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY migrations, BigInt precision in JSON aggregation, Unicode DB names, transaction commit errors, race conditions, and connection string parsing

8.6.0

  • GA release of Redis 8.6 delivering major performance gains and reduced memory usage for hashes and sorted sets, plus per‑type memory histograms
  • Introduces stream XADD idempotency (IDMP/IDMPAUTO), new eviction policies (volatile lrm, allkeys lrm), hot‑key detection via HOTKEYS, TLS certificate‑based client authentication, and time‑series NaN support with COUNTNAN/COUNTALL aggrega...
  • Adds extensive internal optimizations (ACL checks, vector distance kernels, command syscall reductions) and new binary distributions for Alpine, Debian, Docker, Snap, Brew, RPM

2026-02-10, Version 25.6.1 (Current), @aduh95

  • Replaced the CJS module lexer with the new merve parser
  • Updated a range of dependencies (npm, amaro, minimatch, undici, googletest, OpenSSL) and bumped related GitHub Actions
  • Fixed Windows SRV ECONNREFUSED handling, resolve‑hook duplication, flaky test issues, and added several documentation clarifications