Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0
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·October 14, 2025jasonthorsness
The change log is massive, so this is not unexpected to have a few issues. Maybe the two-year backlog of features and updates should have been batched into a few releases instead of this one big one? But there was a beta, and this is ripping the bandaid.
https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/releases/tag/v0.5....
mtlynch
I think the most disruptive part is the migration to the new LTX format,[0] which I'd imagine is hard to do incrementally.
[0] https://fly.io/blog/litestream-v050-is-here/#the-ltx-file-fo...
emschwartz
Extremely helpful. I've been eagerly awaiting v0.5 but have been holding off on deploying it until I had more confidence that it would work and be stable. Reading this, I'm definitely glad that I waited.
ComputerGuru
No need for all the “I love Litestream” disclaimers, these are serious issues that speak for themselves.
I've been trying to get a headstart on the lightweight read replicas for my Go SQLite driver and, yes, there are issues.
But the concept is really cool, and it's workable. I already have a version that mostly works.
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/#lightweight-read-re...
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/litestream