Aggregate functions can now include an ORDER BY clause after their last
+ parameter. The arguments to the function are processed in the order
+ specified. This can be important for functions like
+ string_agg() and json_group_array().
+
Add support for the concat() and concat_ws() scalar SQL functions,
+ compatible with PostgreSQL, SQLServer, and MySQL.
+
Add support for the string_agg() aggregate SQL function, compatible
+ with PostgreSQL and SQLServer.
+
Many errors associated with CREATE TABLE are now raised when the CREATE TABLE statement
+ itself is run, rather than being deferred until the first time the table is actually
+ used.
+
The SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE setting now prevents PRAGMA writable_schema
+ from being turned on. Previously writable_schema could be turned on, but would
+ not actually allow the schema to be writable. Now it simply cannot be turned on.
+
SQLITE_USE_SEH (Structured Exception Handling) is now enabled by default whenever
+ SQLite is built using the Microsoft C compiler. It can be disabled using
+ -DSQLITE_USE_SEH=0
+
Query planner optimizations:
+
+
In partial index scans, if the WHERE clause implies a constant value for a table
+ column, replace occurrences of that table column with the constant. This
+ increases the likelihood of the partial index being a covering index.
+
Disable the view-scan optimization (added in version 3.42.0 - item 1c)
+ as it was causing multiple performance regressions. In its place, reduce
+ the estimated row count for DISTINCT subqueries by a factor of 8.
+
+
SQLite now performs run-time detection of whether or not the underlying hardware
+ supports "long double" with precision greater than "double" and uses appropriate
+ floating-point routines depending on what it discovered.
+
The CLI for Windows now defaults to using UTF-8 for both input
+ and output on platforms that support it. The --no-utf8 option is available
+ to disable UTF8 support.
+
+
Prior changes from version 3.44.1 (2023-11-22):
+
+
Change the CLI so that it uses UTF-16 for console I/O on Windows. This
+ enables proper display of unicode text on old Windows7 machines.
+
Other obscure bug fixes.
+
+
Changes in this specific patch release, version 3.44.2 (2023-11-24):
+
+
Fix a mistake in the CLI that was introduced by the fix (item 15 above) in 3.44.1.
+
Fix a problem in FTS5 that was discovered during internal fuzz testing only
+ minutes after the 3.44.1 release was tagged.
+
Fix incomplete assert() statements that the fuzzer discovered the day after
+ the previous release.
+
Fix a couple of harmless compiler warnings that appeared in debug builds with GCC 16.
+