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Velocity1.7

Distributed SQL database

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CockroachDB is on a metronome — every six weeks an Innovation or Regular release, no fireworks in the entries themselves.

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◆Current state
What we can see is purely cadence: v25.2, v25.4, v26.1, v26.2, v26.3 stacking up on a steady rotation between Innovation and Regular tracks. The entries are version stubs with no payload, so any feature-level analysis would be inference from the release programme rather than the data here.
◆Where it's heading
Cockroach Labs is committed to its dual-track model — Innovation releases for new capabilities, Regular releases for the LTS-style path enterprises consume. The fact that v26 is already at .3 suggests they shipped on schedule across H1 2026 without slipping.
◆Prediction
The next observable entry will be a v26.4 Regular release in mid-to-late summer 2026. Without entry content to read, no confident feature predictions are warranted from these data points alone.

◆Recent moves

  1. just now

    CockroachDB v26.3 Innovation Release

    v26.3 lands as the latest Innovation release, but the entry itself is a stub linking out — fits the visible six-weekly cadence without telling us what's inside.

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  2. 24d ago

    CockroachDB v26.2 Regular Release

    v26.2 ships on the Regular track in late April — the enterprise-consumable counterpart that locks in features from earlier Innovation releases.

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  3. 3mo ago

    CockroachDB v26.1 Innovation Release

    v26.1 opens the v26 line on the Innovation track in early February — the speculative-features release that sets up later Regular versions.

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  4. 6mo ago

    CockroachDB v25.4 (Regular)

    v25.4 closes out the v25 line as a Regular release in November 2025, consistent with a clean half-year cycle before the v26 reset.

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  5. 1y ago

    CockroachDB v25.2 (Regular)

    v25.2 lands mid-May 2025 on the Regular track, anchoring the visible cadence — six-week ticks alternating Innovation and Regular across the v25 series.

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  6. 1y ago

    CockroachDB v24.3 (Regular Release)

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