Overview

This release focused on additional usability with the CLI & adding real-time metrics. It also introduced a few breaking changes to the checkpointing & file replica disk layout.

New commands

• litestream wal—Lists WAL files for a database.
• litestream snapshots—List snapshots for a database.
• litestream databases—Lists databases listed in configuration file.
• litestream validate—Restores the database from a replica and verifies the primary & replica match.

Other changes

• Group file replica WAL files into subdirectories with 64K files.
• Add checkpoint interval to limit the maximum amount of time a WAL file spans. Defaults to 1 minute.
• Remove shadow WAL files that have been copied to all replicas.
• Add database metrics via Prometheus endpoint (http://localhost:9090/metrics). Can be turned off by setting addr: "" in the config.