⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Prisma 5.15.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
- [Breaking change? `Int` switched to being `Int32` for MongoDB](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24262)
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Prisma 5.15.0. Source highlight: Today, we are excited to share the `5.15.0` stable release 🎉
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- - [Breaking change? `Int` switched to being `Int32` for MongoDB](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24262)
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- We incorrectly read commented out preview features if they are before the real preview features
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- Bug: Migrations not compatible with D1
- [Bug: [D1] Error in performIO: Error: D1_ERROR: too many SQL variables](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23743)
- Bug: Error or bug using Prisma with DriverAdapter with PostgreSQL database Neon
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Today, we are excited to share the `5.15.0` stable release 🎉
🌟 **Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo or [tweeting](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Check%20out%20the%20latest%20@prisma%20release%20v5.15.0%20%F0%9F%9A%80%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps://github.com/prisma/prisma/releases/tag/5.15.0) about the release.** 🌟
## **Highlights**
### Multi-File Prisma Schema support
Prisma ORM 5.15.0 features support for multi-file Prisma Schema in Preview.
This closes [a long standing issue](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/2377) and does so in a clean and easy to migrate way.
To get started:
1. Enable the `prismaSchemaFolder` Preview feature by including it in the `previewFeatures` field of your `generator`.
```prisma
datasource db {
provider = "postgresql"
url = env("DATABASE_URL")
}
generator client {
provider = "prisma-client-js"
previewFeatures = ["prismaSchemaFolder"]
}
```
2. Create a `schema` subdirectory under your `prisma` directory.
3. Move your `schema.prisma` into this directory.
You are now set up with a multi-file Prisma Schema! Add as many or as few `.prisma` files to the new `prisma/schema` directory.
When running commands where a Prisma Schema file is expected to be provided, you can now define a Prisma Schema directory. This includes Prisma CLI commands that use the `--schema` option as well as defining schema via `package.json`
Our tooling has also been updated to handle multiple Prisma Schema files. This includes our Visual Studio Code extension and tools like database introspection, which will deposit new models in a `introspected.prisma` file. Existing models will be updated in the file they are found.
To learn more, please refer to our official documentation and [announcement blog post](https://www.prisma.io/blog/organize-your-prisma-schema-with-multi-file-support). If you try out `prismaSchemaFolder`, please [let us know](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions/24413)!
### Interesting Bug Fixes
#### Fix for PostgreSQL prepared statement caching for raw queries
This release fixes a [nasty bug with the caching of prepared statements](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/22482) in [raw Prisma Client queries](https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-client/queries/raw-database-access/raw-queries) that affected PostgreSQL when you ran the same SQL statement with differently typed paramters. This should not fail any more.
#### Fix for SQL Server introspection of (deprecated) **`CREATE DEFAULT`**
Our Introspection logic [crashed](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24275) on encountering certain multi-line `CREATE DEFAULT`, a [deprecated way to define defaults in SQL Server](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create-default-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15). As many SQL Server users are working with established databases, this happened frequently enough that we now explicitly ignore these defaults instead of crashing.
#### Fix for Cloudflare D1’s lower parameter limit
Cloudflare’s D1 has a lower parameter limit than local SQLite, which caused [bigger queries to fail](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23743). We adapted that limit to the D1 default for `@prisma/adapter-d1`, which will avoid such failures.
#### Fix for Cloudflare D1’s different `PRAGMA` support
Our generated migration SQL for SQLite [did not always work for Cloudflare D1](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24208), because of differences in the supported pragmas. We adapted the SQL to work in both local SQLite and Cloudflare D1.
### Fixes and improvements
#### Prisma Migrate
- [Crash on multiline defaults introspection on MSSQL](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/10123)
- [Error: [libs\sql-schema-describer\src\mssql.rs:315:30] called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: "Couldn't parse default value: `create default [dbo].[member_notification_cancel_flags] as 0\r\n`" ](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/10740)
- [Error: [libs\sql-schema-describer\src\mssql.rs:315:30] called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: "Couldn't parse default value: `create default d_password as 'D,73' `" ](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/11010)
- [Crash introspecting MSSQL database with `DEFAULT`s](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/11557)
- [doing introspection on a SQL Server 2018 DB - for Dynamic GP get the following error.](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/14200)
- [Error: [libs\sql-schema-describer\src\mssql.rs:317:30] called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: "Couldn't parse default value: `\r\ncreate default D_BIT_OFF\r\nas 0\r\n`" ](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/15704)
- [Error: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: "Couldn't parse default value in SQL Server](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/17069)
- [db pull errors on SQL Server with `Error: [libs\sql-schema-describer\src\mssql.rs:336:30] called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: "Couldn't parse default value: [...]`](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/17104)
- [Error: [libs\sql-schema-describer\src\mssql.rs:336:30] called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: "Couldn't parse default value: `\r\ncreate default [va_nulla] as 0\r\n`" ](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/17292)
- [Error when pulling from database](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/19971)
- [Foreign key relation results in erroneous second migration](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23043)
- [`db pull` can't parse script setting default value](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23453)
- [Bug: Migrations not compatible with D1](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24208)
- [SQL Server Introspection crashes on multi-line (deprecated) defaults](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24275)
#### Prisma Client
- [Raw query failed. Code: `22P03`. Message: `db error: ERROR: incorrect binary data format in bind parameter 1`](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/16611)
- [Float number on raw query: `incorrect binary data format in bind parameter 1`](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/17110)
- [Can't use Prisma client in Next.js middleware, even when deploying to Node.js](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/21310)
- [Prepared statement caching is data dependent on numeric input parameters (`incorrect binary data format in bind parameter x`)](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/22482)
- [Turso Driver Adapter: Including `_count` leads to error](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23566)
- [Next.js app build fails when using Prisma with DB driver in Server Action](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23600)
- [Bug: [D1] Error in performIO: Error: D1_ERROR: too many SQL variables](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23743)
- [Remove `warn(prisma-client) This is the 10th instance of Prisma Client being started.` warning in Edge (and potentially) other envs)](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23763)
- [$executeRawUnsafe: `incorrect binary data format in bind parameter 6`](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23872)
- [Bug: Error or bug using Prisma with DriverAdapter with PostgreSQL database Neon](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23903)
- [`Inconsistent column data: Unexpected conversion failure from Number to BigInt` error when using `@prisma/adapter-pg` ](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23926)
- [Incompatibility with NextJS app dir, CloudFlare Pages and D1](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/23929)
- [Breaking change? `Int` switched to being `Int32` for MongoDB](https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/24262)
#### Language tools (e.g. VS Code)
- [VS Code extension is showing an advertisement](https://github.com/prisma/language-tools/issues/1732)
- [`Generate` codelens fails on Windows](https://github.com/prisma/language-tools/issues/1738)
- [We incorrectly read commented out preview features if they are before the real preview features](https://github.com/prisma/language-tools/issues/1741)
### Credits
Huge thanks to @pranayat, @yubrot, and @skyzh for helping!