SQLite (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

- Fix the WAL-reset database corruption bug
- Enhance ALTER TABLE to permit adding and removing NOT NULL and CHECK constraints
- Add the Query Result Formatter (QRF) library for formatting the results of SQL queries for human readability on a fixed-pitch font screen
- Add the format method to the TCL Interface so that QRF is accessible from TCL
- QRF is used for result formatting in the CLI, resulting in improved display capabilities
- New built-in SQL functions: json_array_insert(), and jsonb_array_insert()

Renovations to the CLI:
- Major enhancements to the .mode command
- Improved result formatting, due to the addition of the QRF extension. For example, numeric values are now right-justified by default in tabular output modes
- The default output mode for interactive CLI sessions now uses QRF to display query results in boxes formed using Unicode box-drawing characters, for improved legibility. Batch CLI sessions use the legacy output format for compatibility
- Bare (unquoted) semicolons at the end of dot-commands are silently ignored.  ← Potential incompatibility
- Fix the .testcase and .check commands so that they actually work, and use those commands in scripts that part of the standard SQLite test suite included with the source tree
- Command-line arguments that match *.sql or *.txt and are the names of non-empty files are read and interpreted as scripts of SQL statements and/or dot-commands
- The argument to the ".timer" command can now be "once", to run the timer on only the next SQL statement
- The new "--timeout S" option to the ".progress" dot-command causes SQL statements to interrupt after S seconds

New C-language interfaces:
- sqlite3_str_truncate()
- sqlite3_str_free()
- sqlite3_carray_bind_v2()
- Add the SQLITE_PREPARE_FROM_DDL option to sqlite3_prepare_v3() which permits virtual table implementations to safely prepare SQL statements that are derived from the database schema
- Added the SQLITE_UTF8_ZT constant which can be used as the encoding parameter to sqlite3_result_text64() or sqlite3_bind_text64() to indicate that the value is UTF-8 encoded and zero terminated
- The SQLITE_LIMIT_PARSER_DEPTH option is added to sqlite3_limit()
- The SQLITE_DBCONFIG_FP_DIGITS option is added to sqlite3_db_config(). See also item 8b below.

Query planner improvements:
- Always use a sort-and-merge algorithm for EXCEPT, INTERSECT, and UNION, since this is almost always faster than using a hash table
- Improvements to join order selection in large multi-way joins on a star schema
- Enhance the EXISTS-to-JOIN optimization so that the inserted JOIN terms are not required to be on the inner-most loops, as long as all dependencies for the EXISTS-to-JOIN loops are in outer loops
- Enhance the omit-noop-join optimization so that it is able to omit a chain of joins that do not affect the output
- Allow queries that use "GROUP BY e1 ORDER BY e2" where e1 and e2 are identical apart from ASC/DESC sort-orders to be optimized using a single index
- Allow virtual tables to optimize DISTINCT in cases where the result-set of a query does not exactly match the ORDER BY clause
- Improvements to floating-point ↔ text conversions
- Reimplemented to improve performance
- Rounding is now done by default to 17 significant digits, instead of 15, as was the case for all prior versions. The sqlite3_db_config(SQLITE_DBCONFIG_FP_DIGITS) API (item 6g above) can change this, if desired
- The body of TEMP triggers may now modify and/or query tables in the main schema
- Enhance VACUUM INTO so that if a URI filename is used as the target and that filename has a reserve=N query parameter with N between 0 and 255, then the reserve amount for the generated database copy is set to N
- Add the "-p|--port" option to sqlite3_rsync
- Discontinue support for Windows RT