Sourced from sqlx's changelog.

0.8.4 - 2025-04-13

50 pull requests were merged this release cycle.

As of this release, development of 0.9.0 has begun on main. Barring urgent hotfixes, this is expected to be the last release of 0.8.x.

Added

• [#3603]: Added missing special casing for encoding embedded arrays of custom types [[@​nico-incubiq]]
• [#3625]: feat(sqlite): add preupdate hook [[@​aschey]]
• [#3655]: docs: add example for postgres enums with type TEXT [[@​tisonkun]]
• [#3677]: Add json(nullable) macro attribute [[@​seanaye]]
• [#3687]: Derive clone and debug for postgresql arguments [[@​remysaissy]]
• [#3690]: feat: add postres geometry line segment [[@​jayy-lmao]]
• [#3707]: feat(Sqlite): add LockedSqliteHandle::last_error [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3710]: feat: add ipnet support [[@​BeauGieskens]]
• [#3711]: feat(postgres): add geometry box [[@​jayy-lmao]]
• [#3714]: chore: expose bstr feature [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3716]: feat(postgres): add geometry path [[@​jayy-lmao]]
• [#3724]: feat(sqlx-cli): Add flag to disable automatic loading of .env files [[@​benwilber]]
• [#3734]: QueryBuilder: add debug_assert when push_values is passed an empty set of tuples [[@​chanmaoganda]]
• [#3745]: feat: sqlx sqlite expose de/serialize [[@​mattrighetti]]
• [#3765]: Merge of #3427 (by @​mpyw) and #3614 (by @​bonsairobo) [[@​abonander]]
  • [#3427] Expose transaction_depth through get_transaction_depth() method [[@​mpyw]]
    • Changed to Connection::is_in_transaction in [#3765]
  • [#3614] Add begin_with methods to support database-specific transaction options [[@​bonsairobo]]
• [#3769]: feat(postgres): add geometry polygon [[@​jayy-lmao]]
• [#3773]: feat(postgres): add geometry circle [[@​jayy-lmao]]

Changed

• [#3665]: build(deps): bump semver compatible dependencies [[@​paolobarbolini]]
• [#3669]: refactor(cli): replace promptly with dialoguer [[@​paolobarbolini]]
• [#3672]: add #[track_caller] to Row::get() [[@​karambarakat]]
• [#3708]: chore(MySql): Remove unnecessary box [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3715]: chore: add pg_copy regression tests [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3721]: Replace some futures-core / futures-util APIs with std variants [[@​paolobarbolini]]
• [#3725]: chore: replace rustls-pemfile with rustls-pki-types [[@​tottoto]]
• [#3754]: chore(cli): remove unused async-trait crate from dependencies [[@​tottoto]]
• [#3762]: docs(pool): recommend actix-web ThinData over Data to avoid two Arcs [[@​jonasmalacofilho]]

Fixed

• [#3289]: Always set SQLITE_OPEN_URI on in-memory sqlite [[@​LecrisUT]]
• [#3334]: Fix: nextest cleanup race condition [[@​bonega]]
• [#3666]: fix(cli): running tests on 32bit platforms [[@​paolobarbolini]]
• [#3686]: fix: handle nullable values by printing NULL instead of panicking [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3700]: fix(Sqlite): stop sending rows after first error [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3701]: fix(postgres) use signed int for length prefix in PgCopyIn [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3703]: fix(Postgres) chunk pg_copy data [[@​joeydewaal]]
• [#3712]: FromRow: Fix documentation order [[@​Turbo87]]
• [#3720]: Fix readme: uuid feature is gating for all repos [[@​jthacker]]

... (truncated)

• See full diff in compare view

You can trigger Dependabot actions by commenting on this PR:

• @dependabot rebase will rebase this PR
• @dependabot recreate will recreate this PR, overwriting any edits that have been made to it
• @dependabot merge will merge this PR after your CI passes on it
• @dependabot squash and merge will squash and merge this PR after your CI passes on it
• @dependabot cancel merge will cancel a previously requested merge and block automerging
• @dependabot reopen will reopen this PR if it is closed
• @dependabot close will close this PR and stop Dependabot recreating it. You can achieve the same result by closing it manually
• @dependabot show <dependency name> ignore conditions will show all of the ignore conditions of the specified dependency
• @dependabot ignore this major version will close this PR and stop Dependabot creating any more for this major version (unless you reopen the PR or upgrade to it yourself)
• @dependabot ignore this minor version will close this PR and stop Dependabot creating any more for this minor version (unless you reopen the PR or upgrade to it yourself)
• @dependabot ignore this dependency will close this PR and stop Dependabot creating any more for this dependency (unless you reopen the PR or upgrade to it yourself)