We are thrilled to unveil the latest Acra Community Edition, version 0.96.0.
Acra — a database security suite — continues to evolve, enabling easy data protection with low impact on the application architecture and performance. The latest improvements to the Acra Community Edition reflect the outstanding collaboration with Acra’s users and open-source contributors.
The new Acra Community Edition 0.96.0 focuses on improving user experience and expands compatibility with databases and their protocols. This update contributes to reliability and stability in securing sensitive assets.
Try Acra Community Edition 0.96.0!
Main updates: #
Extended compatibility:
- Added support for Debian “bookworm”.
- Added support for Ubuntu 24.04.1 (Noble Numbat).
Database support enhancements:
- Improved MariaDB support: Expanded handling of MariaDB extensions now covers both wire and binary protocols, enhancing the stability of Acra-MariaDB interactions for more efficient database communication.
- Enhanced MySQL functionality: Acra now supports MySQL’s text protocol for Prepared Statements, broadening its applicability across various database environments. Additionally, issues with handling null values in MySQL Prepared Statements have been resolved, ensuring more reliable data processing and less bugs.
- Improved Unicode support for PostgreSQL: Unicode character processing for PostgreSQL has been refined for more accurate data management.
Stability Enhancements:
- Improved Acra stability for multi-statement queries in PostgreSQL.
Operation efficiency:
- Simplified TLS connection configuration: Setting up TLS between Acra, the application, and the database is now easier. Global TLS settings can be configured once, specifying only the unique parameters for individual services.
- AcraBackup has been merged into AcraKeys: Users can now use fewer tools to handle the entire key management workflow.
Docs and examples:
- Updated Acra engineering examples: Try out more easy-to-run Docker-based examples and demo apps that demonstrate common data security features and data flow architectures.
This release reflects our commitment to providing strong data protection in developer-friendly form. Free Acra 0.96.0 Community Edition is available on GitHub. Check it out!