Skip to main content

Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dbdock.xyz/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

Full changelog lives in the repository: dbdock/dbdock CHANGELOG.md. Below is a high-level summary of notable releases.

​
1.1.26 — Latest

  • --driver flag on copydb for serverless Postgres compatibility (Neon, Supabase pooler, PlanetScale Postgres)
  • Stricter TypeScript types across the codebase
  • Re-enabled @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any — the codebase is now any-free
  • Open-source release: moved to github.com/dbdock/dbdock, added CONTRIBUTING/SECURITY/CHANGELOG, CI workflow

​
1.1.22

  • Replaced uuid with nanoid for backup ID generation (smaller, URL-safe)
  • SMTP configuration handling improvements with optional chaining

​
1.1.17

  • Support for environment-only configuration — no config file needed
  • DBDOCK_DB_URL / DATABASE_URL as first-class database configuration

​
1.1.15

  • copydb command for direct database-to-database copies

​
1.1.11

  • Custom webhook support
  • Improved environment variable handling

​
1.1.4

  • Migration tool for moving legacy secrets from config to env (dbdock migrate-config)
  • Credential masking in logs

​
1.0.0

  • First stable release
  • PostgreSQL backup and restore
  • Storage adapters: local, S3, R2, Cloudinary
  • AES-256-GCM encryption, zstd compression
  • Retention policies
  • Email and Slack alerts
  • Cron-based scheduling
  • Programmatic SDK

​
Release notes on GitHub

Each release has detailed notes and the diff since the previous version on GitHub: github.com/dbdock/dbdock/releases

​
Upgrading

DBdock follows semver. Patch and minor updates are backwards-compatible.

​
Check your version

dbdock --version

​
Update global install

npm update -g dbdock

​
Update project dependency

npm update dbdock
Or pin to a specific version: 
npm install dbdock@1.1.26

​
Breaking changes

None to date — every 1.x release is backwards-compatible with 1.0. If a 2.0 release arrives with breaking changes, this page will document the migration path.