Monday, 6th July 2026
I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changelog since rc2 kept getting bigger.
The biggest new feature is support for introspecting and creating compound foreign keys - a feature that involves a subtle breaking change to table.foreign_keys and hence needed to land for the 4.0 stable release.
sqlite-utils also now follows SQLite's convention for case insensitive column names, which turned out to touch a bunch of different places at once.
tencent/Hy3. New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China:
Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April, we gathered feedback from 50+ products and scaled up post-training with higher quality data. Today, we introduce Hy3, which outperforms similar-size models and rivals flagship open-source models with 2-5x parameters. It also shows significant gains in utility across various products and productivity tasks.
The full-sized model is 598GB on Hugging Face, and the FP8 quantized one is 300GB. The context length is 256K.
It's available for free on OpenRouter until July 21st. I had it "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" there and got this:
