Picodata 24.1 is out!

The Picodata development team is pleased to announce the release of Picodata 24.1, our core software product. It’s been just few months since our last release, yet the team managed to implement quite a lot of stunning new features of our distributed DBMS.

Here are the highlights:

  • New [picodata admin](https://docs-picodata-io.translate.goog/picodata/stable/tutorial/connecting/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp#admin_console) command connects to an instance via unix socket under the admin account
  • New [picodata connect](https://docs-picodata-io.translate.goog/picodata/stable/tutorial/connecting/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp#sql_console) implementation provides a console interface to the distributed SQL
  • New option [picodata run --shredding](https://docs-picodata-io.translate.goog/picodata/stable/reference/cli/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp#run_shredding) enables secure removing of data files (snap, xlog).
  • New option [picodata run --log](https://docs-picodata-io.translate.goog/picodata/stable/tutorial/audit_log/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp#audit_log_config) configures the diagnotic log.
  • New option [picodata run --memtx-memo](https://docs-picodata-io.translate.goog/picodata/devel/reference/cli/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp#run_memtx_memory)ry controls the amount of memory allocated for the database engine.
  • Global tables now can be used in complex queries that include EXCEPT, JOIN, UNION ALL, WHERE … IN (SELECT…), GROUP BY

See the full list of changes in the CHANGELOG for this release.

Get a hand of our software by downloading the pre-built packages for supported Linux distributions at our downloads site at
https://picodata.io/download

You can find installation advisory as well as documentation for installing software, creating instances, cluster configuration and deployment at our dedicated documentation site at
https://docs.picodata.io/picodata

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