# DuckDB v0.7.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** DuckDB (https://duckdb.org)
- **Version:** v0.7.1
- **Released:** Feb 27, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/duckdb/updates/v0.7.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
DuckDB v0.7.1. Source highlight: This is a bug fix release for various issues discovered after we released 0.7.0. There are no new features, just bug fixes. Notably, there is no incompatibility with database files created with v0.7.0

## New Features
- When building extensions we need to add _storage_init to the whitelist on MacOS
- Add missing shell mode descriptions
- Correctly compute Windows terminal width, and add a `.maxwidth` option to the shell for duckbox mode
- feat: allow extensions to implement CREATE/DROP DATABASE
- JDBC: Expand Blob, add UUID support
- Implement #6003 - add names option to CSV reader

## Improvements
- Improve error message similarity score by using a weighted levenshtein that penalizes non-equal characters more than additions/deletions

## Bug Fixes
- Some more read_json_auto bugfixes
- Fix for Thrift.h: std::iterator is deprecated
- Fix #6255: Shell should be installed in INSTALL_BIN_DIR
- Fix lateral join bug
- fix: add storage_version_info entry for v0.7.0
- Fix to #5461