# Prisma 5.9.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Prisma (https://prisma.io)
- **Version:** 5.9.0
- **Released:** Jan 30, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/prisma/updates/5.9.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Prisma 5.9.0. Source highlight: Today, we are excited to share the `5.9.0` stable release 🎉

## New Features
- Improve the performance of relation queries by introducing JOINs (see last release).
- feat(qe): avoid extra select on delete queries
- feat(qe): enable queries with returning for sqlite

## Upgrade Command
```bash
npm install --save-dev --save-exact prisma@5.9.0
```