What's new in DuckDB and how does DuckDB fit into old shell scripts? These are topics that our DevRel Gábor covered at Ubuntu Summit 2026. His talk explained three aspects of DuckDB:
– A command-line tool that fits neatly into Unix pipelines
– A portable database that can solve analytical database problems anywhere
– A client-server database enabled by the new Quack protocol
The talk is now out on YouTube, so give it a watch – link in the thread.
Today, we are releasing DuckDB v1.5.3. This is not an ordinary patch release – it packs many new features as extensions.
First, DuckDB v1.5.3 ships our new Quack client-server protocol as an autoloadable core extension. Second, Quack can now also work as a DuckLake catalog. And finally, the AWS and Iceberg extensions made huge strides, along with changes in the HTTPS extension for better proxy support.
We wrote a blog post about all these changes and improvements: link in the thread 🧵
ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way
https://t.co/rtU5aLUN6X
The ORDER BY clause is one of the best-known SQL clauses. Yet there are a number of common misunderstandings that are worth clearing up. The article walks you through the evolution of the ORDER BY clause in the SQL standard.