6.9.0

Today, we are excited to share the 6.9.0 stable release 🎉 

🌟 Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo ☝️ or posting on X about the release.

Highlights

Prisma ORM without Rust engines for PostgreSQL & SQLite (Preview)

If you've been excited about our work of removing the Rust engines from Prisma ORM but hesitated trying it out because it was in an Early Access (EA) phase, now is a great time for you to get your hands on the Rust-free Prisma ORM version.

This major architectural change has moved from EA into Preview in this release, meaning there are no more know major issues. If you want to try it out, add the queryCompiler and driverAdapters preview feature flags to your generator, install the driver adapter for your database, and get going:

generator client {
  provider        = "prisma-client-js"
  previewFeatures = ["queryCompiler", "driverAdapters"]
  output          = "../generated/prisma"
}

Now run prisma generate to re-generate Prisma Client. If you didn't use a driver adapter before, you'll need to install, e.g. the one for PostgreSQL:

npm install @prisma/adapter-pg

Once installed, you can instantiate PrismaClient as follows:

import { PrismaClient } from './generated/prisma'
import { PrismaPg } from '@prisma/adapter-pg'

const adapter = new PrismaPg({ connectionString: env.DATABASE_URL })
const prisma = new PrismaClient({ adapter })

No more hassle with query engines, binary targets and an even smoother experience in serverless and edge environments!

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Major improvements for local Prisma Postgres (Preview)

In the last release, we enabled you to spin up a Prisma Postgres instance locally via the new prisma dev command. Local Prisma Postgres uses PGlite under the hood and gives you an identical experience as you get with a remote Prisma Postgres instance.

This release brings major improvements to this feature:

• Persists your databases across prisma dev invocations.
• Enables you to have multiple local Prisma Postgres instances running at the same time.
• Running prisma init now uses local Prisma Postgres by default.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

📚 Learn more in the docs.

More news

Connect to Prisma Postgres with any ORM (Preview)

Since its GA release, you could only interact with Prisma Postgres using Prisma ORM via a custom connection string.

This has changed now: When setting up a new Prisma Postgres instance, you receive a regular PostgreSQL direct TCP connection string (starting with postgres://...) that lets you connect to it using your favorite tool or database library, including Drizzle, Kysely, TypeORM, and others.

If you want to access Prisma Postgres from a serverless environment, you can also use our new serverless driver (Early Access).

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Automated backup & restore

Prisma Postgres' backup and restore mechanism has seen a major upgrade recently: You can now easily restore any previous backup via the UI in the Prisma Console. Find the new Backups tab when viewing your database and select any backup from the list to restore its state to a previous point in time.

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Prisma's VS Code extension now has a UI to manage Prisma Postgres

If you're using Prisma ORM, chances are that you're using our VS Code extension too. In its latest release, we've added a major new capability to it: A UI for managing databases.

With this new UI, you can:

• Authenticate with the Prisma Console
• Create and delete remote Prisma Postgres instances
• View local Prisma Postgres instances
• View and edit data via an embedded Prisma Studio
• Visualize your database schema

To use the new features, make sure to have the latest version of the Prisma VS Code extension installed and look out for the new Prisma logo in VS Code's Activity Bar.

📚 Learn more in the docs.

New region for Prisma Postgres: San Francisco (us-west-1)

We keep expanding Prisma Postgres availability across the globe! After having added Singapore just a few weeks ago, we're now adding San Francisco based on another poll we ran on X. Here are all the regions where you can spin up Prisma Postgres instances today:

• us-west-1: San Francisco (new!)
• us-east-1: North Virginia
• eu-west-3: Paris
• ap-northeast-1: Tokyo
• ap-southeast-1: Singapore

Keep an eye on our X account to take part in the poll and vote for the next availability zone of Prisma Postgres!

6.8.2

Today, we are issuing the 6.8.2 patch release. It fully resolves an issue with the prisma init and prisma dev commands for some Windows users who were still facing problems after the previous incomplete fix in version 6.8.1.

Fixes:

• #27195

6.8.1

Today, we are issuing the 6.8.1 patch release. It fixes an issue with the prisma init and prisma dev commands on Windows.

Fixes

• #27192

6.8.0

Today, we are excited to share the 6.8.0 stable release 🎉 

🌟 Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo ☝️ or posting on X about the release.

Highlights

Local development with Prisma Postgres via prisma dev (Early Access)

In this release, we're releasing a way to develop against Prisma Postgres locally — no Docker required!

To get started, run the new prisma dev command:

npx prisma dev # starts a local Prisma Postgres server

This command spins up a local Prisma Postgres instance and prints the connection URL that you'll need to set as the url of your datasource block to point to a local Prisma Postgres instance. It looks similar to this:

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = "prisma+postgres://localhost:51213/?api_key=ey..." 
}

You can then run migrations and execute queries against this local Prisma Postgres instance as with any remote one. Note that you need to keep the prisma dev process running in order to interact with the local Prisma Postgres instance.

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Native Deno support in prisma-client generator (Preview)

In this release, we're removing the deno Preview feature from the prisma-client-js generator. If you want to use Prisma ORM with Deno, you can now do so with the new prisma-client generator:

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client"
  output   = "../src/generated/prisma"
  runtime = "deno"
}

📚 Learn more in the docs.

VS Code Agent Mode: AI support with your database workflows

Have you tried agent mode in VS Code already?

"The agent acts as an autonomous pair programmer that performs multi-step coding tasks at your command, such as analyzing your codebase, proposing file edits, and running terminal commands."

As of this release, your agent is capable of supporting you with your database workflows more than ever! If you're using VS Code and have the Prisma VS Code extension installed, your agent now is able to help you with your database workflows, such as:

• checking the status of your migrations (e.g. telling you if migrations haven't been applied)
• creating and running schema migrations for you
• authenticating you with the Prisma Console
• provisioning new Prisma Postgres instances so you can start coding right away

All you need to do is make sure you're using the latest version of Prisma's VS Code extension and your agent is ready to go 🚀

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Other news

You voted, we acted: New Singapore region for Prisma Postgres

We recently ran a poll where we asked you which region you'd like to see next for Prisma Postgres. The majority vote went to Asia Pacific (Singapore), so as of today, you're able to spin up new Prisma Postgres instances in the ap-southeast-1 region.

We're not stopping here — keep an eye out on X for another poll asking for your favorite regions that we should add!

6.7.0

Today, we are excited to share the 6.7.0 stable release 🎉 

🌟 Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo ☝️ or posting on X about the release.

Highlights

Prisma ORM without Rust engines (Early Access)

If you're a regular visitor of our company blog, you may already know that we're currently working on moving the core of Prisma from Rust to TypeScript. We have written extensively about why we're moving away from Rust and already shared the first measurements of performance boosts we saw from the re-write.

This re-write is not just a move from one programming language to another. It fundamentally improves the architecture of Prisma ORM and replaces the Query Engine (which is written in Rust and deployed as a standalone binary) with a much leaner and more efficient approach that we call Query Compiler.

In this release, we're excited to give you Early Access to the new Query Compiler for PostgreSQL and SQLite database 🥳 Support for more database will follow very soon!

To use the new "Rust-free" version of Prisma ORM, add the queryCompiler (new) and driverAdapters feature flags to your client generator:

generator client {
  provider        = "prisma-client-js"
  previewFeatures = ["queryCompiler", "driverAdapters"]
  output          = "../generated/prisma"
}

Now run prisma generate to re-generate Prisma Client. If you didn't use a driver adapter before, you'll need to install one. For example, the one for PostgreSQL:

npm install @prisma/adapter-pg

Once installed, you can instantiate PrismaClient as follows:

import { PrismaPg } from '@prisma/adapter-pg'
import { PrismaClient } from './generated/prisma'

const adapter = new PrismaPg({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL })
const prisma = new PrismaClient({ adapter })

This version of PrismaClient doesn't have a Query Engine binary and you can use it in the exact same way as before.

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Support for better-sqlite3 JavaScript driver (Preview)

Driver adapters are Prisma ORM's way of letting you use JS-native drivers (like pg) to interact with your database. In this release, we're introducing a new driver adapter for using the better-sqlite3 package, so you can now interact with SQLite database in a JS-native way.

To use it, first enable the driverAdapters Preview feature flag in on your client generator, then install these libraries:

npm install @prisma/adapter-better-sqlite3

Now you can instantiate Prisma Client as follows:

import { PrismaBetterSQLite3 } from '@prisma/adapter-better-sqlite3';
import { PrismaClient } from './generated/prisma';

const adapter = new PrismaBetterSQLite3({
  url: "file:./prisma/dev.db"
});
const prisma = new PrismaClient({ adapter });

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Multi-file Prisma schemas are now production-ready

The prismaSchemaFolder Preview feature is moving into General Availability 🎉 With that change, Prisma ORM now by default supports splitting your Prisma schema file and e.g. lets you organize your schema as follows:

prisma/schema.prisma → defines data source and generator

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
}

prisma/models/posts.prisma → defines Post model

model Post {
  id        Int     @id @default(autoincrement())
  title     String
  content   String?
  published Boolean @default(false)
  author    User?   @relation(fields: [authorId], references: [id])
  authorId  Int?
}

prisma/models/users.prisma → defines User model

model User {
  id    Int     @id @default(autoincrement())
  email String  @unique
  name  String?
  posts Post[]
}

⚠️ Note that there have been breaking changes to the prismaSchemaFolder Preview feature in the last 6.6.0 release. If you've been using this feature to split your Prisma schema, make sure to read the release notes and update your project accordingly.

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Splitting generated output with new prisma-client generator (Preview)

With the prisma-client-js generator, the generated Prisma Client library is put into a single index.d.ts file. This sometimes led to issues with large schemas where the size of the generated output could slow down code editors and breaking auto-complete.

As of this release, our new prisma-client generator (that was released in 6.6.0) now splits the generated Prisma Client library into multiple files and thus avoids the problems of a single, large output file.

Also: As a bonus, we now ensure that generated files do not raise any ESLint and TypeScript errors!

Before

generated/
└── prisma
    ├── client.ts
    ├── index.ts # -> this is split into multiple files in 6.7.0
    └── libquery_engine-darwin.dylib.node

After

generated/
└── prisma
    ├── client.ts
    ├── commonInputTypes.ts
    ├── enums.ts
    ├── index.ts
    ├── internal
    │   ├── class.ts
    │   └── prismaNamespace.ts
    ├── libquery_engine-darwin.dylib.node
    ├── models
    │   ├── Post.ts
    │   └── User.ts
    └── models.ts

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Company news

Our team has been busy shipping more than just the ORM! Check out these articles to learn what else we've been up to recently:

• Announcing: Prisma Postgres Integration for Vercel Marketplace
• Securely Access Prisma Postgres from the Frontend (Early Access)
• Announcing Prisma's MCP Server: Vibe Code with Prisma Postgres

6.6.0

Today, we are excited to share the 6.6.0 stable release 🎉 This version comes packed with exciting features, we can't wait to see what you're going to build with it! Read our announcement blog post for more details: Prisma ORM 6.6.0: ESM Support, D1 Migrations & MCP Server

🌟 Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo ☝️ or posting on X about the release. 🌟

Highlights

ESM support with more flexible prisma-client generator (Early Access)

We are excited to introduce a new prisma-client generator that's more flexible, comes with ESM support and removes any magic behaviours that may cause friction with the current prisma-client-js generator.

Note: The prisma-client generator is currently in Early Access and will likely have some breaking changes in the next releases.

Here are the main differences:

• Requires an output path; no “magic” generation into node_modules any more
• Supports ESM and CommonJS via the moduleFormat field
• Outputs plain TypeScript that's bundled just like the rest of your application code

Here's how you can use the new prisma-client generator in your Prisma schema:

// prisma/schema.prisma
generator client {
  provider     = "prisma-client"           // no `-js` at the end
  output       = "../src/generated/prisma" // `output` is required
  moduleFormat = "esm"                     // or `"cjs"` for CommonJS
}

In your application, you can then import the PrismaClient constructor (and anything else) from the generated folder:

// src/index.ts
import { PrismaClient } from './generated/prisma/client'

⚠️ Important: We recommend that you add the output path to .gitignore so that the query engine that's part of the generated Prisma Client is kept out of version control:

# .gitignore
./src/generated/prisma

📚 Learn more in the docs.

Cloudflare D1 & Turso/LibSQL migrations (Early Access)

Cloudflare D1 and Turso are popular database providers that are both based on SQLite. While you can query them using the respective driver adapter for D1 or Turso, previous versions of Prisma ORM weren't able to make schema changes against these databases.

With today's release, we're sharing the first Early Access version of native D1 migration support for the following commands:

• prisma db push: Updates the schema of the remote database based on your Prisma schema
• prisma db pull: Introspects the schema of the remote database and updates your local Prisma schema
• prisma migrate diff: Outputs the difference between the schema of the remote database and your local Prisma schema

Note: Support for prisma migrate dev and prisma migrate deploy will come very soon!

To use these commands, you need to connect the Prisma CLI to your D1 or Turso instance by using the driver adapter in your prisma.config.ts file. Here is an example for D1:

import path from 'node:path'
import type { PrismaConfig } from 'prisma'
import { PrismaD1HTTP } from '@prisma/adapter-d1'

// import your .env file
import 'dotenv/config'

type Env = {
  CLOUDFLARE_D1_TOKEN: string
  CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID: string
  CLOUDFLARE_DATABASE_ID: string
}

export default {
  earlyAccess: true,
  schema: path.join('prisma', 'schema.prisma'),

  migrate: {
    async adapter(env) {
      return new PrismaD1HTTP({
        CLOUDFLARE_D1_TOKEN: env.CLOUDFLARE_D1_TOKEN,
        CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID: env.CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID,
        CLOUDFLARE_DATABASE_ID: env.CLOUDFLARE_DATABASE_ID,
      })
    },
  },
} satisfies PrismaConfig<Env>

With that setup, you can now execute schema changes against your D1 instance by running:

npx prisma db push

📚 Learn more in the docs:

• Cloudflare D1
• Turso / LibSQL

MCP server to manage Prisma Postgres via LLMs (Preview)

Prisma Postgres is the first serverless database without cold starts. Designed for optimal efficiency and high performance, it's the perfect database to be used alongside AI tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable or co.dev. In this ORM release, we're adding a command to start a Prisma MCP server that you can integrate in your AI development environment. Thanks to that MCP server, you can now:

• tell your AI agent to create new DB instances
• design your data model
• chat through a database migration

… and much more.

To get started, add this snippet to the MCP configuration of your favorite AI tool and get started:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Prisma": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "prisma", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

📚 Learn more in the docs.

New --prompt option on prisma init

You can now pass a --prompt option to the prisma init command to have it scaffold a Prisma schema for you and deploy it to a fresh Prisma Postgres instance:

npx prisma init --prompt "Simple habit tracker application"

For everyone, following social media trends, we also created an alias called --vibe for you 😉

npx prisma init --vibe "Cat meme generator"

Improved API for using driver adapters

In this release, we are introducing a nice DX improvement for driver adapters. Driver adapters let you access your database using JS-native drivers with Prisma ORM.

Before 6.6.0

Earlier versions of Prisma ORM required you to first instantiate the driver itself, and then use that instance to create the Prisma driver adapter. Here is an example using the @libsql/client driver for LibSQL:

import { createClient } from '@libsql/client'
import { PrismaLibSQL } from '@prisma/adapter-libsql'
import { PrismaClient } from '@prisma/client'

// Old way of using driver adapters (before 6.6.0)
const driver = createClient({
  url: env.LIBSQL_DATABASE_URL,
  authToken: env.LIBSQL_DATABASE_TOKEN,
})
const adapter = new PrismaLibSQL(driver)

const prisma = new PrismaClient({ adapter })

6.6.0 and later

As of this release, you instantiate the driver adapter directly with the options of your preferred JS-native driver.:

import { PrismaLibSQL } from '@prisma/adapter-libsql'
import { PrismaClient } from '../prisma/prisma-client'

const adapter = new PrismaLibSQL({
  url: env.LIBSQL_DATABASE_URL,
  authToken: env.LIBSQL_DATABASE_TOKEN,
})

const prisma = new PrismaClient({ adapter })

Other changes

prismaSchemaFolder breaking changes

If you are using the prismaSchemaFolder Preview feature to split your Prisma schema into multiple files, you may encounter some breaking changes in this version.

Explicit declaration of schema folder location

You now must always provide the path to the schema folder explicitly. You can do this in either of three ways:

• pass the the --schema option to your Prisma CLI command (e.g. prisma migrate dev --schema ./prisma/schema)
• set the prisma.schema field in package.json:

  // package.json
  {
    "prisma": {
      "schema": "./schema"
    }
  }

• set the schema property in prisma.config.ts:

  import path from 'node:path'
  import type { PrismaConfig } from 'prisma'
  
  export default {
    earlyAccess: true,
    schema: path.join('prisma', 'schema'),
  } satisfies PrismaConfig<Env>

migrations folder must live next to .prisma file with datasource block

Your migrations directory must live next to the .prisma file that defines your datasource blog. If you relied on the implicit schema folder location of ./prisma/schema make sure to move your migrations folder from ./prisma/migrations to ./prisma/schema/migrations.

Assuming schema.prisma defines the datasource in this example, here's how how need to place the migrations folder:

# `migrations` and `schema.prisma` are on the same level
.
├── migrations
├── models
│   ├── posts.prisma
│   └── users.prisma
└── schema.prisma

See this PR for more details.

No more Bun issues if Node.js is not installed

Bun users reported an issue that prisma generate would hang if Node.js installed on their machine. This is now fixed and Bun users can generate Prisma Client without issues.

Company news

Enterprise support

Prisma offers an enterprise support plan for Prisma ORM. Get direct help from our team and a joint slack channel! With Prisma ORM 7 on the horizon, this is a great time to upgrade your support today.

We are hiring: Developer Support Engineer

If you care about making developers successful, join us as a Developer Support Engineer.

6.5.0

Today, we are excited to share the 6.5.0 stable release 🎉

🌟 Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo ☝️ or tweeting about the release. 🌟

Highlights

Databases can only be reset manually and explicitly

In previous versions, if Prisma ORM determined that a migrate command could not be applied cleanly to the underlying database, you would get a message like this one:

? We need to reset the "public" schema at "db.url.com:5432"
Do you want to continue? All data will be lost. (y/N)

While "no" was the default, we've determined that having this prompt in the first place was a mistake. In this version we're removing the prompt entirely and instead exiting with an appropriate error message.

To get the previous behavior, you will need to run prisma migrate reset directly.

Support for prisma.config.ts in Prisma Studio

We've expanded support for our prisma.config.ts file to include Prisma Studio!

To use the new config file, including the ability to connect to driver adapter enabled databases with Prisma Studio, add a studio block to your prisma.config.ts file:

import path from 'node:path'
import type { PrismaConfig } from 'prisma'
import { PrismaLibSQL } from '@prisma/adapter-libsql'
import { createClient } from '@libsql/client'

export default {
  earlyAccess: true,
  schema: {
    kind: 'single',
    filePath: './prisma/schema.prisma',
  },
  studio: {
    adapter: async (env: unknown) => {
      const connectionString = `file:./dev.db'
      const libsql = createClient({
        url: connectionString,
      })
      return new PrismaLibSQL(libsql)
    },
  },
} satisfies PrismaConfig

Notice how this looks a little different from last release! Instead of an @prisma/config package there’s now two different options:

1. Using the defineConfig helper exported by prisma/config.
2. Using the PrismaConfig utility type exported by Prisma.

All the relevant info for the prisma.config.ts file, including these new ways of defining your config, can be found in our docs.

Allow for chaining $on and $extends.

In previous versions of Prisma ORM, the return type of the $on client method was void. This did not allow for chaining $on() and $extends() calls, as $on is not available on extended clients.

In this version we've resolved this issue and $on will now return the modified Prisma Client.

Community fixes

We have a number of community-submitted fixes that improve Prisma ORM:

• Allow for binaries to be loaded from local network. Thank you @RaHehl!
• Enhance type safety of the AtLeast utility type. Thank you @de-novo!
• Resolve a race condition in the NextJS monorepo plugin. Thank you @toniopelo!
• allow for filtering out spans with PrismaInstrumentation. Thank you @overbit!

Prisma is hiring

Join us at Prisma and work on our TypeScript ORM (now faster than ever) and our Cloud products like Prisma Postgres (now in GA!)

We currently have two open roles in our Engineering team:

• Developer Support Engineer (Americas)
• Senior Engineering Manager

If these don’t fit, you can still check out our jobs page and send a general application.

Enterprise support

Prisma offers an enterprise support plan for Prisma ORM. Get direct help from our team and a joint slack channel! With Prisma ORM 7 on the horizon this is a great time to upgrade your support today.

Credits

Thank you to @overbit, @RaHehl, @toniopelo, and @de-novo for your contributions to this release!

6.4.1

Today, we are issuing the 6.4.1 patch release. It fixes a few issues with the NPS survey and makes it respect the --no-hints CLI flag.

Fixes

Prisma CLI

• #26364

6.4.0

Today, we are excited to share the 6.4.0 stable release 🎉

🌟 Help us spread the word about Prisma by starring the repo ☝️ or tweeting about the release. 🌟

Highlights

TypeScript-based configuration with prisma.config.ts (Early Access)

In this release, we're introducing an Early Access version of a TypeScript-based configuration file for Prisma ORM: prisma.config.ts.

This file will serve as a central configuration point for Prisma ORM:

import path from 'node:path'

export default {
  earlyAccess: true, // required while in Early Access

  schema: {
    kind: 'single', // use 'multi' if you're using the `prismaSchemaFolder` preview feature
    filePath: path.join('custom', 'prisma', 'schema.prisma')
  }
  
})

With this file you are able to run any arbitrary code needed to get values required by Prisma ORM, such as database URLs from a secret store or fine-grained control of settings. It needs to live in the current working directory from where you're executing Prisma CLI commands (typically, the root of your project).

Note: If you're using prisma.config.ts, the Prisma CLI will not load environment variables from .env files. If you want to use a .env file with prisma.config.ts, you'll need to load the environment variables manually using the dotenv package (see here).

Learn more about the new prisma.config.ts file in the docs.

Case-insensitive mode in JSON filters

You can now do case-insensitive filtering on JSON data.

Just use the new mode option when filtering using string_contains, string_starts_with or string_ends_with in a JSON object and set it to "insensitive":

await prisma.user.findMany({
  where: {
    pets: {
      path: ['favorites', 'catBreed'],
      string_contains: 'Van',
      mode: "insensitive",
    },
  },
});

The above query returns all users where the favorites.catBreed value contains "Van" or "van".

Thanks to @lubosmato who implemented this feature 🎉

Improved CockroachDB migration speed

In this release we found some inefficiencies in our migration engine that was impacting CockroachDB migrations. In 6.4.0, CockroachDB migrations should be significantly faster.

Calling all devs: Give us your feedback!

Prisma ORM's community keeps us going. To make sure that we're focused on what the community needs, we would like to get your feedback via our online feedback form.

Credits

Huge thanks to @lubosmato, @notomo, @Mayureshd-18, @mydea, @omar-dulaimi and @Hazmi35 for helping out with this release!

6.3.1

This patch releases introduces improvements to the prisma init output when invoked to with the --db option.

Run npx prisma@latest init --db to get an instant Prisma Postgres database.