After weeks of testing and multiple release candidates, Appwrite 1.8.0 for self-hosted environments is now available.
This release brings major improvements across runtime support, performance, and data capabilities, making Appwrite even more powerful for teams running their own infrastructure.
Appwrite has always been built for developers who want complete control. With this release, we're expanding what's possible in your environment.
Here's everything we've released in Appwrite 1.8.0, our most powerful self-hosted version yet.
Powerful Database features
Over the past two months, we've been rolling out a series of major database upgrades, all focused on giving you more power, flexibility, and reliability when managing data at scale.
Introducing TablesDB
Meet TablesDB. A major step forward in how Appwrite handles structured data. It introduces familiar relational concepts like tables, columns, and rows, along with a new TablesDB API that aligns with standard CRUD patterns such as createTable, createRow, and createColumn.
Built for developers who prefer a more structured model, TablesDB offers the clarity of relational databases while remaining fully compatible with Appwrite's existing collections and documents. It's ideal for analytics, structured datasets, and complex relationships, giving you more control and flexibility when modelling data at scale.
Transactions API
Appwrite now supports Database Transactions. With this feature, you can stage multiple operations across one or more tables, and commit them only when you're ready.
- If every operation checks out, Appwrite commits them in one atomic action.
- If anything fails, whether due to permissions, conflicts, validations, or other reasons, Appwrite automatically rolls everything back.
Learn more about Transactions API
API for spatial columns
If you're building maps, logistics, travel, mobility, real estate, or safety and compliance features, this unlocks the geo foundation you've been waiting for.
With this new API, you can store points, lines, and polygons directly in Appwrite Database, index them efficiently, and query how they interact with each other with first-class geo primitives and queries.
Learn more about Spatial columns
CSV import
CSV import is a new way to populate your Appwrite databases from CSV files. Built on top of Appwrite's migration APIs, this feature makes it easy to bring in large datasets, seed collections, or migrate structured data using only a CSV file.
Bulk API
Explicitly designed to handle heavy write workloads, with the new Bulk API, you can create, update, or delete multiple rows in one go, vastly speeding up your workflows and reducing network overhead.
Database Upsert
Database Upsert allows you to create or update a row using a single API call.
- If the row does not exist, it is created.
- If it does, it is updated.
You no longer need to write separate logic to check for existence or handle 404 responses. The server handles that for you.
Learn more about Database Upsert
Auto increment support
Previously, maintaining consistent insertion order and generating numeric identifiers required either manual increments, complex logic, or dependence on timestamps, which weren't always accurate or reliable.
Appwrite's new Auto-increment support feature solves these issues seamlessly, providing a built-in numeric identifier that increases predictably with every new row added.
Learn more about Auto increment support
Opt-in relationship loading
This powerful enhancement empowers developers with explicit, granular control over exactly which related rows they fetch from the database.
With Opt-in relationship loading, rows now only return their immediate fields by default. You explicitly specify exactly which relationships should be included in your queries. This eliminates unintended data fetching, drastically reduces payload sizes, and ensures you load only what matters.
Learn more about Opt-in relationship loading
New set of queries
Appwrite Databases now have smarter queries. We've added two sets of new queries that let you handle time-based filtering and exclusions directly in your queries.
createdBefore, createdAfter, updatedBefore, updatedAfter
notSearch, notContains, notBetween, notStartsWith, notEndsWith
Together, these new queries make your code cleaner, reduce the need for workarounds, and give you more control over your data.
Atomic numeric operations
Before this feature, updating a number meant fetching the entire row, modifying it on the client, and writing it back, a process prone to race conditions, unnecessary bandwidth use, and extra logic to handle edge cases.
With Atomic numeric operations, you simply send a delta (like +1 or -3), and Appwrite applies the update atomically on the server.
Learn more about Atomic numeric operations
Real-time support for Bulk API
The Bulk API now supports real-time events, ensuring all connected clients stay in sync during multi-record operations. It's perfect for collaborative dashboards, analytics tools, and live data systems.
Runtimes & SDK updates
Flutter 3.32 and Dart 3.8 support
Appwrite 1.8.x introduces Flutter 3.32 and Dart 3.8 runtimes for Sites and Functions, ensuring full compatibility with the latest SDKs. These updates bring faster build times, improved stability, and access to new language features, helping you ship high-performance apps across web, mobile, and desktop while staying aligned with the latest Flutter ecosystem advancements.
Expanded Runtime compatibility
This release also brings updates and optimizations to other runtimes, improving startup speed, dependency resolution, and logging reliability for Node.js, Python, PHP, and Deno environments.
Improved SDK Consistency
SDKs across platforms have been updated for greater parity and more predictable behaviour. This includes refined error handling, better type safety, and smoother developer ergonomics across the board.
Auth and security improvements
Native Sign in with Apple
Add “Sign in with Apple” to your apps in minutes using the new built-in function template. It integrates seamlessly with Appwrite's Auth and session management to simplify native Apple authentication across platforms.
React Native scheme handling
Appwrite now natively handles React Native URL schemes, improving the reliability of authentication callbacks and deep-link flows across iOS and Android.
Origin validation for web extensions
Appwrite 1.8.0 also introduces support for web extensions, allowing them to connect and interact with Appwrite resources without being blocked by origin validation. This update makes it easier to build browser-based tools and integrations that rely on Appwrite APIs.
Performance and delivery improvements
Improved email delivery
Appwrite's SMTP system now uses BCC-only emails, improving privacy and deliverability — especially for large user bases or bulk notifications.
Core optimizations
Behind the scenes, Appwrite 1.8.0 includes a series of core performance and memory optimizations, reducing startup times and improving reliability for self-hosted deployments at scale.
Built for developers who self-host
Appwrite 1.8.0 represents the most capable self-hosted Appwrite yet, combining modern runtimes, advanced Database capabilities, stronger security, and real-time improvements into one release.
Upgrade today, and experience more speed, reliability, and control. All on your own infrastructure.
To see the complete list of updates and improvements, head over to the complete release notes.
