DuckLake follows semantic versioning. Larger new features are introduced in minor versions, while patch versions mostly contain bugfixes.

DuckLake is expected to mature over the course of 2025 with a 1.0 release planned in late 2025 or early 2026.

Upcoming Releases

Upcoming releases are shown in the table below. Please note that these dates are tentative and DuckLake maintainers may decide to push back release dates to ensure the stability and quality of releases. DuckLake specification releases are currently tied to DuckLake extension releases, this may change in the future. It is also worth mentioning that some DuckLake extension releases may have a dependency on DuckDB and therefore will need to adjust to the DuckDB release calendar.

Date	DuckLake Spec	DuckLake Extension
2025-09-10	0.3	0.3

Past Releases

In the following, we list DuckLake's past releases.

Date	DuckLake Spec	DuckLake Extension	Announcement
2025-07-04	0.2	0.2	post
2025-05-27	0.1	0.1	post

Compatibility Matrix

The DuckLake specification and the ducklake DuckDB extension are currently released together. This may not be the case in the future, where the specification and the extension may have different release cadences. It can also be the case that the extension needs a DuckDB core update, therefore DuckDB versions are also included in this compatibility matrix.

DuckDB	DuckLake Extension	DuckLake Spec
1.3.x	0.2	0.2
1.3.x	0.1	0.1