# Prisma 5.6.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Prisma (https://prisma.io)
- **Version:** 5.6.0
- **Released:** Nov 14, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/prisma/updates/5.6.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Prisma 5.6.0. Source highlight: 🌟 **Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo or tweeting about the release.** 🌟

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- This release also introduces a small breaking change to the `@prisma/adapter-planetscale` package to improve its stability and performance. The serverless driver adapter will now use a connection pool instead of a single connection from PlanetScale’s serverless driver.

## Improvements
- A new `$replica()` method that explicitly enables you to use a replica for your query.
- Validation for when there’s an empty list of replicas.

## Bug Fixes
- Webpack bundling fixes
- `prisma debug`

## Upgrade Command
```bash
npm install --save-dev --save-exact prisma@5.6.0
```