# DuckDB v1.4.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** DuckDB (https://duckdb.org)
- **Version:** v1.4.2
- **Released:** Nov 12, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/duckdb/updates/v1.4.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
DuckDB v1.4.2. Source highlight: This is a bug fix release for various issues discovered after we released 1.4.1. PR #19716 addresses the issues raised in CVE-2025-64429. Users of the DuckDB encryption feature are encouraged to update.

## New Features
- Add settings field to test config
- add test tag support [vfs integration tests p1]
- Add forwards compatibility tests to CI
- Add tests for nested lambda bindings
- Add test that either 'latest' or 'vX.Y.Z' are supported STORAGE_VERSIONs
- [v1.4-andium] Add Profiler output to logger interface

## Improvements
- [DevEx] Improve error message when FROM clause is omitted
- Improve error message around compression type deprecation/availability checks

## Bug Fixes
- Fix regex optimization to remove flags when converting to contains
- feat: Fix length of sort keys
- hugeint_t fixes
- Bugfixes
- [C API] bind_value out of range fix
- BUGFIX: Silent failure to write row groups with large lists