DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS: hidden gems beyond the release announcement
After releasing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS, the team highlights smaller features and improvements that didn't make the main announcement, alongside headline items like the Quack protocol and VARIANT type.
Gems of DuckDB 2.0.0 💎 🦆 Last week DuckLabs released DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS, our biggest feature release so far. The announcement covered the headline items: the Quack protocol, asynchronous I/O, the first-class `VARIANT` type, agent mode, the PEG parser and triggers, and more. #DuckDB 2.0.0 is now available in all primary clients. However, a release of this size ships many smaller improvements that never make it into the original announcement. In this blog post, Gábor Szárnyas and @GeertjanW highlight a few of the hidden gems of DuckDB 2.0 – smaller features and improvements which are still valuable – that didn’t make it into the main release announcement: https://duckdb.org/2026/10/26/gems-of-duckdb-200?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social