Impact Score: 5/10
PocketBase: v0.20.3 Release
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Component: pocketbase · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
PocketBase v0.20.3. Source highlight: _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Minor Go tests improvements
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fixed the `json` field equal query comparisons to work correctly with plain JSON primitive values like `null`, `bool` `number`, etc. (#4068).
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._
- Fixed the `json` field equal query comparisons to work correctly with plain JSON primitive values like `null`, `bool` `number`, etc. ([#4068](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/4068)).
Since there are plans in the future to allow custom SQLite builds and also in some situations it may be useful to be able to distinguish `NULL` from `''`, for the `json` fields (and for any other future non-standard field) we no longer apply `COALESCE` by default, aka.:
```
Dataset:
1) data: json(null)
2) data: json('')
For the json field filter "data = null" only 1) will resolve to TRUE.
For the json field filter "data = ''" only 2) will resolve to TRUE.
```
- Minor Go tests improvements
- Sorted the record cascade delete references to ensure that the delete operation will preserve the order of the fired events when running the tests.
- Marked some of the tests as safe for parallel execution to speed up a little the GitHub action build times.