Alpha of version 0.2, this marks a large step forward with a new build architecture and better stability.

What's Changed

• PGlite Next by @pmp-p in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/112
  • Now based on Postgres version 16.3
  • Support for dynamic loading of extensions, with the first being pgvector
  • A new dumpDataDir method to dump a tarball of the database, and a loadDataDir option when starting to load a database
  • Fixes issues with TOAST values and materialised views.
• Fix web worker syntax for webpack static analysis by @gregnr in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/103
• Support for adding or receiving a blob for use with COPY FROM/TO by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/106
• Support for pg_notify by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/102
• Extension API by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/99
• Fix extension loading when server sends content-encoding: gzip header by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/124
• Live Query API by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/104
• New method execProtocolRaw() by @gregnr in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/127
• Multi-tab worker by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/120
• OPFS access handle pool VFS by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/130
• Postgres contrib extensions by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/131
• contrib folder auto builder by @pmp-p in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/129
• Fix close and add support for new stage 3 ECMAScript explicit resource management by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/133
• Fix bundling for Next.js by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/140
• contrib/uuid_ossp by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/136
• Fix closing of the IndexedDB when closing an idb backed pglite by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/141
• Add a "browser" field to package.json to hint to bundlers what is not required in the browser by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/143
• CJS support by @samwillis in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/144
• Enable setting a user when connecting to PGlite by @pmp-p in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/147

New Contributors

• @gregnr made their first contribution in https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/103

Full Changelog: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/compare/v0.1.5...v0.2.0-alpha.7