# DuckDB v1.4.5 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** DuckDB (https://duckdb.org)
- **Version:** v1.4.5
- **Released:** Jun 17, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/duckdb/updates/v1.4.5/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
DuckDB v1.4.5. Source highlight: This is a bug fix release for various issues discovered after we released v1.4.4.

## New Features
- [lance] Add for v1.4-andium
- add lance for v1.4
- Add v1.4.5 to storage version map

## Improvements
- backport GetLocalFileSystem improvements to andium

## Bug Fixes
- Fix escape handling in AddEscapes function
- Backport various race condition fixes to v1.4
- Fix unbounded row group growth for indexed tables on repeated load+insert cycles
- Fix for CSV reader buffer-boundary value read
- Backport `__EMSCRIPTEN__` fix
- counting fix