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JUNE 2026

AuthZed June 2026 Release

This release cycle focuses on SpiceDB correctness and operability: case-sensitive identifiers on MySQL, more reliable Watch checkpoints, and a security fix for permission checks that use caveats.


SpiceDB

Security Fix (v1.54.0)

Under concurrent load, some permission checks on schemas that combine caveats with intersections (&) or exclusions (-) could return a full permission when the correct answer was a conditional one. See GHSA-4vrg-r928-h5vv to check whether your schema is affected. We recommend upgrading.

MySQL: Case-Sensitive Identifiers (v1.54.0)

On MySQL, object and subject IDs are now case-sensitive, matching every other SpiceDB datastore. Previously, IDs that differed only in letter case (for example, Foo and foo) could collide.

Upgrade note: this migration rebuilds the relationships table and can lock it for a long time on large datasets. Run the upgrade in a low-traffic window, or apply it with an online schema-change tool.

Reliability Fixes and Improvements (v1.54.0)

  • Watch API: more dependable checkpoints on MemDB and MySQL.
  • Schema caching: the experimental watching schema cache now recovers from temporary errors.
  • CockroachDB: losing one database node no longer briefly blocks reads.
  • Caching: SpiceDB now uses a single, newer cache implementation.
  • Tracing: works with less configuration and no longer drops traces on shutdown.
  • Regressions: fixed issues introduced in v1.53.0 on Postgres and MySQL.
  • Developer experience: editor hover and go-to-definition now work inside arrow expressions, and Go applications that embed SpiceDB get the same defaults as the CLI.
  • Query planner: continued progress on the experimental query planner, which is still not recommended for production.

Zed CLI

Backup Improvements (v1.2.0)

zed backup create now supports streaming to stdout. When no path is given, the backup is written to the current directory and the saved path is printed.