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Dev · simonwillison.net · Tuesday, 23 June 2026

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 brings built‑in migrations and nested transaction support

The first release candidate of sqlite-utils 4.0 adds a tiny migrations framework that tracks schema versions in a _sqlite_utils_migrations table, and a new db.atomic() API that maps to SQLite savepoints for nested transactions. Python developers can now evolve SQLite schemas and manage complex writes without hand‑rolled transaction code.

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