1.0 Alpha 6

Introduce new enum definition syntax (#1843).

Instead of using strings, the enums are now defined using identifiers:

CREATE SCALAR TYPE schema::TypeModifier
    EXTENDING enum<SetOfType, OptionalType, SingletonType>;

Rename built-in schema enums to use CamelCase names (#1843).

Rename string handling functions to use start and end in their name (#1752):

• Deprecate str_lpad() in favor of str_pad_start()

• Deprecate str_rpad() in favor of str_pad_end()

• Deprecate str_ltrim() in favor of str_trim_start()

• Deprecate str_rtrim() in favor of str_trim_end()

Improve UPDATE functionality ( #1746).

Forbid usage of DML in some special cases (#1726).

Add tracking of DML inside function bodies (#1741).

Allow functions with non-statement bodies (#1723).

Allow the usage of EXISTS in constraints (#1750).

Allow partial paths in object constraints (#1704)

Allow trailing commas in collection types (#1749).

Fix INSERT ... UNLESS CONFLICT ... ELSE when combined with shape (#1743).

Fix how FOR statement correlates values (#1776).

Fix handling of collections of newly created types in SDL (#1730).

Fix handling of function definitions in SDL (#1649).

Fix interactions of SET OF and OPTIONAL arguments (#1640).

Implementation of more of the features of the new migration syntax (RFC 1000).

Require instance name for most edgedb server commands.

Add version check to show a warning when tools should be updated (#158).

Add edgedb self-upgrade command (#159).

Add support for installing server using Docker (edgedb server install --method=docker)

Stop treating “edgedb” as special (#1729)

Improve database initialization (#1755).

Import setuptools before distutils in setup.py (#1734).

Switch UUID decoding from a rich object to a string ( #72).

Add EdgeDBDateTimeCodec for handling various datetime scalars (#68).

Update the edgedb-js driver to 0.11.0.

Update the edgedb-python driver to 0.11.0.