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title: "HeliosDB-Lite v3.2 Release Notes"
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# HeliosDB-Lite v3.2 Release Notes

**Version**: 3.2.0

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## Overview

HeliosDB-Lite v3.2 adds multi-tenancy infrastructure with Row-Level Security (RLS), Tenant Quota Enforcement, and Change Data Capture (CDC) for data migration. This release focuses on security isolation and resource management for SaaS deployments.

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## What's New

### 1. Row-Level Security (RLS) Framework


Comprehensive security framework for data isolation in shared environments:

**Features**:
- **Type-Safe Policy System**: Policies with USING and WITH CHECK expressions
- **RLS Commands**: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ALL command types
- **Database Execution Hooks**: Automatic RLS enforcement in DML operations
- **Tenant Context Management**: Per-request user/role/tenant tracking
- **Policy Registration**: Simple API for policy creation and retrieval

**Architecture**:
```
Application → Tenant Context → Database Layer → RLS Evaluation → Execution
```

**Security Guarantees**:
- Data isolation by tenant via RLS policies
- Automatic policy enforcement in UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT
- Defense-in-depth: RLS AND-ed with WHERE clauses
- Type-safe policy definition prevents injection

**Known Limitations**:
- Expression evaluation deferred to v3.3
- SELECT queries require application-level filtering
- Single policy per table (multiple policies use first match)

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### 2. Tenant Quota Enforcement System


Real-time resource management system for multi-tenant deployments:

**Features**:
- **Connection Limiting**: Enforce max concurrent connections per tenant
- **Storage Quotas**: Track and limit storage usage (bytes)
- **QPS Throttling**: Rate-limit queries per second with sliding windows
- **Tier Configuration**: Pre-configured plan templates (Free/Starter/Pro/Enterprise)
- **Monitoring APIs**: Real-time quota tracking and metrics

**Architecture**:
```
Operation Request → Quota Check (O(1)) → Allow/Reject → Record Metrics
```

**Performance**:
- **Connection Check**: O(1) HashMap lookup
- **Storage Update**: O(1) atomic write
- **QPS Recording**: O(1) counter increment
- **Memory per Tenant**: < 1 KB

**Default Limits**:
```
Free:        10 GB storage, 5 connections, 100 QPS
Starter:     50 GB storage, 20 connections, 500 QPS
Pro:        500 GB storage, 100 connections, 5000 QPS
Enterprise: 10 TB storage, 1000 connections, 50000 QPS
```

**Known Limitations**:
- Quotas reset on restart (in-memory only)
- Single-process instance (no coordination)
- QPS window not reset by background task

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### 3. RETURNING Clause Framework


Support for PostgreSQL-compatible RETURNING clause in DML operations:

**Features**:
- **Logical Plan Support**: RETURNING for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
- **Parser Integration**: RETURNING columns parsed from SQL
- **Execution Hooks**: Framework ready for tuple capture in v3.3

**Supported Syntax**:
```sql
INSERT INTO users (name, email) VALUES ('Alice', 'alice@example.com')
RETURNING id, name, email;

UPDATE users SET email = 'newalice@example.com' WHERE id = 1
RETURNING id, old_email, new_email;

DELETE FROM users WHERE id = 1
RETURNING id, name;
```

**Architecture**:
```
SQL → Parser (extract RETURNING) → Logical plan → Executor (capture tuples)
```

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### 4. Change Data Capture (CDC) for Tenant Migration


Infrastructure for tenant-to-tenant data migration:

**Features**:
- **Change Events**: Capture all INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations
- **CDC Log**: Ordered, immutable change sequence per tenant
- **Migration State Machine**: Pending → Snapshotting → Replicating → Verifying → Completed
- **Consistency Verification**: Checksum-based validation
- **Replication Targets**: Track multiple migrations per source tenant
- **Lifecycle Control**: Pause, resume, rollback migration at any stage

**Architecture**:
```
Source Tenant Data
    ↓
Record Change Events
    ↓
CDC Log (per tenant)
    ↓
Start Migration
    ├─ Stage 1: Snapshot
    ├─ Stage 2: Replicate Changes
    ├─ Stage 3: Verify Consistency
    └─ Stage 4: Complete or Rollback
        ↓
Target Tenant Data
```

**Performance**:
- **Event Recording**: O(1) monotonic ID + append
- **Progress Tracking**: O(1) field update
- **Consistency Check**: O(1) checksum comparison
- **Log Retrieval**: O(n) clone of events

**Known Limitations**:
- Manual change-event recording required (v3.3 adds hooks)
- Logs lost on restart (v3.3 adds persistence)
- No automatic checksum computation (v3.3 adds helpers)
- Single-process scope (v3.4 adds distribution)

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## Breaking Changes

**None**

All v3.2 features are:
- **Opt-in**: Existing code unaffected
- **Backward compatible**: No API changes to existing methods
- **Non-breaking**: new parameters are optional

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## Deprecations

**None planned**

All existing APIs remain stable through v3.2 and beyond.

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## Migration Guide for Users

### For Single-Tenant Applications

**Impact**: Zero impact

- RLS, Quota, and CDC are opt-in
- Existing queries and operations unaffected
- No performance degradation
- Default: features disabled

### For Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications

**Prepare for CDC in v3.3**:
```rust
// v3.2: Framework ready, manual integration
// v3.3: Automatic hooks will be added

// For now, applications can:
// 1. Monitor DML operations
// 2. Plan migration workflows
// 3. Prepare target tenants
```

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## Performance Impact

### Compilation

- **Binary Size**: +0.2%
- **Build Time**: +3% (additional type checking)

### Runtime (When Features Disabled)

- **Query Execution**: No overhead
- **Memory**: +200 bytes
- **Latency**: < 1 microsecond (feature flag check)

### Runtime (When Features Enabled)

Measured on representative fixtures; reproduce on your own hardware.

| Operation | Latency | Throughput |
|-----------|---------|-----------|
| RLS policy check | < 10 µs | 100k+/sec |
| Quota check | < 5 µs | 200k+/sec |
| Record change event | < 100 µs | 10k+/sec |
| Get CDC log | < 1 ms | 1k+/sec |

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## Known Issues

### v3.2 Framework Level

1. **RLS SELECT not supported**: Use application-level filtering
   - **Workaround**: Manual WHERE clause + tenant context
   - **Fix**: v3.3 expression evaluation

2. **CDC logs not persistent**: Lost on restart
   - **Workaround**: Implement application-level persistence
   - **Fix**: v3.3 RocksDB integration

3. **Manual change recording**: No automatic hooks
   - **Workaround**: Record change events from your application's DML paths
   - **Fix**: v3.3 automatic integration

4. **Quota window reset**: No background task
   - **Workaround**: Reset the QPS window manually
   - **Fix**: v3.3 background task

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## Testing

### How to Verify Installation

```bash
# Check version on a running server (HTTP port); in the REPL use the \version meta-command
curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/version
# Should return: {"name":"HeliosDB-Lite","version":"3.2.0","api_version":"v1"}

# Verify features compile
cargo build --all-features

# Run embedded tests
cargo test --lib
```

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## Dependencies

### New Dependencies

**None** - All features use existing dependencies

### Dependency Versions

- `parking_lot`: 0.12+ (RwLock)
- `uuid`: 1.0+ (TenantId)
- `chrono`: 0.4+ (Timestamps)
- `serde`: 1.0+ (JSON serialization)

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## Upgrade Instructions

### From v3.1 to v3.2

1. **Backup your data** (no schema changes)

2. **Unpack the v3.2 source distribution** (available to licensed customers) next to the v3.1
   one, so you can roll back.

3. **Recompile**:
   ```bash
   cargo build --release
   ```

4. **No migration required**: v3.2 is fully backward compatible

5. **Optional: Enable features** in your application code

### Rollback Instructions

If needed, revert to v3.1: stop the server, then start the v3.1 binary you kept (or rebuild it
from the v3.1 source distribution with `cargo build --release`) on the same data directory.

No data changes needed - v3.2 framework is non-destructive.

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## Support & Feedback

### Reporting Issues

Support: support@heliosdb.com

Include:
- HeliosDB version (`GET /version` on the HTTP port, or `\version` in the REPL)
- Feature being used (RLS/Quota/CDC)
- Reproduction steps
- Error messages

### Feature Requests

Discuss on [Discord](https://discord.gg/yTykuUrFXc):
support@heliosdb.com

Vote on priority features for v3.3.

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## License

HeliosDB-Lite remains under the same license as v3.1.
See LICENSE file for details.

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## Acknowledgments

Thanks to the HeliosDB community for feedback and requirements that shaped v3.2's design.

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## What's Next?

1. **Try v3.2**: Explore new RLS, Quota, and CDC capabilities
2. **Provide feedback**: Tell us what works and what needs improvement
3. **Plan upgrades**: Evaluate v3.2 features for your deployment
4. **Stay tuned**: v3.3 brings expression evaluation and persistence

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**HeliosDB-Lite v3.2.0 - Enterprise Multi-Tenancy, Now Available**