1.0 Alpha 4

Add __std__ alias for std module so that there’s a way to refer to the standard module which cannot be masked by a WITH std AS MODULE foo construct (#1457).

Allow explicit OPTIONAL qualifier for links and properties in DDL and SDL. In particular, use it in DESCRIBE command output. (#1342).

Only show link properties on link computables that are aliases.

DESCRIBE command now shows matches that are potentially masked by the user-defined types or functions (#1439).

Add DESCRIBE ROLES and DESCRIBE SYSTEM CONFIG to the DESCRIBE command.

Allow underscore in numeric literals and forbids float and decimal constants to end in . (#920).

Validate the REQUIRED flag on computables (#217).

Forbid reference to link properties outside of a path expression (#1512).

Allow annotations to be renamed (#762).

Initial implementation of the new migration syntax (RFC 1000).

We have a new edgedb server group of commands that ships with the default EdgeDB CLI. Check out the details in this RFC 1001.

The edgedb REPL prompt now has a transaction indicator:

edgedb> 

start transaction;

OK: START TRANSACTION
edgedb[T]>

Remove reliance on Postgres table inheritance (#1468)

The edgedb-server installed by official installers is now called edgedb-server-1-alpha4.

Rename fetch to query in the edgedb-js and the edgedb-python drivers.

Add connection pooling to edgedb-js driver.

Update the edgedb-js driver to v0.8.0.

Update the edgedb-python driver to v0.9.0.