Changelog

• May 15, 2026

  Announcing deployment retention for Functions and Sites

  Appwrite now supports deployment retention for Functions and Sites, letting you automatically delete old non-active deployments after a retention window you control. Deployment artifacts count toward your project's storage allowance on Appwrite Cloud, so retention reclaims that space and reduces storage overage on builds you would never roll back to.

  The active deployment is always kept. Set deploymentRetention to 0 to keep non-active deployments forever, or choose a day-based value up to 36500 days. You can configure it from the Console or through the Functions and Sites APIs.

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• May 13, 2026

  Database relationships are out of beta

  Database relationships in Appwrite are graduating from experimental to production-ready. After a year of performance, ergonomics, and capability improvements, they are now a first-class way to model connected data.

  What's shipped over the past year

  • Opt-in relationship loading: Related rows are no longer pulled in automatically, you select exactly which relationships to load using query selection. Smaller payloads, faster responses.
  • Filter queries on relationships: Filter across related data using dot notation, like Query.equal('author.name', ['Jake']). All comparison operators are supported, including equal, notEqual, greaterThan, lessThan, between, contains, and spatial queries.
  • 12-18x faster relationship operations: A full internal overhaul made every relationship read, write, and join dramatically faster, with no configuration changes required.
  • CSV export support: Relationship fields export cleanly as IDs from the Console.

  Read the announcement to learn more

• May 12, 2026

  Store 64-bit integers with BigInt columns

  Appwrite Databases now supports BigInt columns, giving you a 64-bit signed integer type alongside the existing 32-bit integer. Use BigInt when your values may exceed the ±2.1 billion range of a regular integer, for example large counters, high-resolution timestamps, or external IDs from systems that use 64-bit keys.

  BigInt columns accept optional min, max, and default parameters and work with Operators for atomic server-side updates, just like regular integers.

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• May 11, 2026

  Appwrite plugin for Codex

  The Appwrite plugin is now available for Codex. Install it to get agent skills for the Appwrite CLI and every major SDK, two guided deployment skills for Sites and Functions, and the Appwrite Docs MCP server, all in a single setup.

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• May 6, 2026

  Appwrite CLI now supports multi-file project configuration

  Appwrite CLI 20.0.0 adds support for splitting large appwrite.config.json files into multiple local JSON files with a new includes field.

  You can move supported resource arrays, such as functions, sites, tablesDB, tables, topics, teams, buckets, webhooks, and messages, into their own files while keeping init, pull, push, and run workflows unchanged. The CLI reads included resources into the same in-memory config shape and writes updates back to the file where each resource is defined.

  Function and site paths are resolved relative to the file that defines them, so nested workspaces, packages, and submodules can keep resource configuration and source paths together.

  JSON

  {
      "projectId": "<PROJECT_ID>",
      "endpoint": "https://<REGION>.cloud.appwrite.io/v1",
      "includes": {
          "functions": "./appwrite/functions.json",
          "sites": "./appwrite/sites.json",
          "buckets": "./appwrite/buckets.json"
      }
  }
  

  Learn more about multi-file configuration

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