v0.5.1

tursodatabase/tursov0.5.1Mar 10, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

A maintenance release addressing specific SQL and MVCC bugs to improve data integrity and query performance.

Key Highlights

Fix for INSERT failing on non-INTEGER PRIMARY KEY when column is omitted
Optimization improvements for MVCC no-op update
Enhancements to EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN

New Features

Fix INSERT failing on non-INTEGER PRIMARY KEY when column is omitted
Disable no-op update optimisation in MVCC

Full Release Notes

## Release Notes

### Fixed

* Fix INSERT failing on non-INTEGER PRIMARY KEY when column is omitted (Mikaël Francoeur)
* core/mvcc: Disable no-op update optimisation (Avinash Sajjanshetty)

### Optimized

* optimizer: some finetuning for statsless heuristics + improve EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN (Jussi Saurio)

## Install turso_cli 0.5.1

### Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

```sh
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-installer.sh | sh
```

### Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

```sh
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-installer.ps1 | iex"
```

## Download turso_cli 0.5.1

|  File  | Platform | Checksum |
|--------|----------|----------|
| [turso_cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz) | Apple Silicon macOS | [checksum](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz.sha256) |
| [turso_cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz) | Intel macOS | [checksum](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz.sha256) |
| [turso_cli-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip) | x64 Windows | [checksum](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip.sha256) |
| [turso_cli-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz) | ARM64 Linux | [checksum](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz.sha256) |
| [turso_cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz) | x64 Linux | [checksum](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/download/v0.5.1/turso_cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz.sha256) |

## 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](https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_attestation_verify):
```sh
gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo tursodatabase/turso
```

You can also download the attestation from [GitHub](https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/attestations) and verify against that directly:
```sh
gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>
```