FoundationDB 8.0.0 Released

FoundationDB 8.0.0 is now officially available.

The latest FoundationDB release can be downloaded and installed as binaries from the github downloads page (available for macOS and Linux), or as source from our GitHub repository. If you’re already running FDB, also see our upgrade instructions.

Highlights of the 8.0.0 release include:

• Added Native CDC (Change Data Capture): durable named streams over one or more disjoint user-key ranges, commit-version-grouped mutations, resumable consumers, and durable acknowledgements controlling log retention. Native C++, C, and Python APIs support registration, listing, removal, consumption, and acknowledgement; ordered fixed-partition streams can merge mutations into commit-version order. Operator commands report stream status and guard removal while consumers lag.
• Migrated Flow actors to standard C++20 coroutines and removed the actor compiler and its source-generation step. Updated developer documentation and tutorials to use co_await, co_return, and the Flow coroutine runtime.

A full list of features, fixes, and other changes are documented in our release notes.