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Manticore tags a GitHub release per commit, so the real news is one entry in five.

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◆Current state
Only one item in the recent window is a release in the ordinary sense: 28.6.6, whose notes cover UUID document IDs for real-time tables — explicit or generated, with equality and IN filters and UUID-based REPLACE, UPDATE and DELETE — and an ordered, limited GROUP_CONCAT() that keeps the top N values per group. The rest are individual commits published as releases: a buddy dependency bump, a backup component bump, a fix restoring USER() parsing after authentication made USER a keyword, and a revert of UTF-8 table and field name support that had been merged by mistake.
◆Where it's heading
The feature direction visible here is making Manticore behave more like the SQL engine users expect. UUID identifiers remove the requirement to mint your own document IDs, the GROUP_CONCAT extension closes a gap against MySQL semantics, and the USER() fix is repairing MySQL client compatibility that the new authentication support broke. The reverted UTF-8 identifier support belongs to the same effort and will presumably return deliberately.
◆Prediction
UTF-8 table and field names were reverted as merged by mistake rather than rejected, so the clearest next step is that feature landing properly. The commit-per-release pattern means most upcoming entries will continue to be single fixes rather than release notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 22h ago

    UTF-8 table and field name support reverted

    Reverts UTF-8 table and field name support, which the notes say was merged by mistake. The feature is withdrawn rather than rejected.

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  2. 1d ago

    Buddy component bumped from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0

    A version bump of the bundled buddy component from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, published as its own release.

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  3. 7d ago

    UUID document IDs and ordered, limited GROUP_CONCAT()

    The actual 28.6.6 release notes: UUID document IDs for real-time tables, including generated identifiers and UUID-based REPLACE, UPDATE and DELETE, plus an ordered and limited GROUP_CONCAT() that keeps the top N values per group. Fixes span replication, backups and secondary indexes.

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  4. 8d ago

    USER() parsing restored for MySQL client compatibility

    Restores USER() parsing, which broke when authentication support turned USER into a syntax token and left the MySQL client's status command failing.

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  5. 9d ago

    Backup component bumped to 1.10.2

    Bumps the backup component from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 to pick up an upstream fix.

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