DuckDB has reached 40,000 GitHub stars. Since the 30,000-star milestone in summer 2025, the project released DuckDB 1.4.0 (first LTS release) and 1.5.0, launched the DuckLake 1.0 lakehouse standard, and introduced the Quack remote protocol enabling client-server multi-writer setups. Community metrics have surged: 8M+ monthly unique visitors to duckdb.org, 2 PB in extension download traffic, and 50M+ monthly PyPI downloads. The team also hosted multiple meetups and DuckCon #7. Notable community highlights include streaming analytics use cases, graph query support via SQL/PGQ, Iceberg-in-browser capabilities, C# extension development, and Spotify's production use of DuckDB.
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