🚀 We released DuckDB v1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition.

🔎 We are shipping new Iceberg features, improved logger/profiler integration and several bugfixes. The new DuckDB version can also read and write Vortex files.

📖 For more details, read
duckdb.org/2025/11/12/a...

🔬 We are hosting the first “DuckDB in Science” meetup in London on September 4, co-located with VLDB 2025.

🔍 We'll have two deep-dive presentations from DuckDB's developers and four lightning talks from community members.

📍 For details and registration, see duckdb.org/events/2025/...

🎓 On September 4, we are hosting a new kind of meetup in London which will focus on the use of DuckDB in Science and Education!

⚡️ We still have some spots for lightning talks. If you're working with DuckDB in your research and/or classroom, consider sharing your story!

🔗 duckdb.org/events/2025/...

🚀 The DuckDB 1.3.2 bugfix release is out!

📦 The Python and CLI clients are already on the latest version, while the rest will follow in the coming days.

🔖 See the detailed change log at github.com/duckdb/duckd...

I wrote a small Bash snippet to streamline my workflow for using Cloudflare R2 with the AWS CLI:

szarnyasg.org/posts/cloudf...

It turns out DuckDB can load Latin-2 encoded CSV files just fine with the combination of iconv and the shellfs extension.

New blog post by @a13x.bsky.social and @archie.sarrewood.com:

Reading and Writing Google Sheets in DuckDB

This post introduces the gsheets community extension, which enables DuckDB to directly read from and write to Google Sheets.

duckdb.org/2025/02/26/g...

I solved the exercises in Chapter 5 of the "Data Science at the Command Line" book using the @duckdb.org CLI client. Most exercises had a straightforward solution in DuckDB's SQL – see here:

szarnyasg.org/posts/data-s...

I gathered some ideas for DuckDB blog posts and learned a few new CLI tricks: