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vNext (TBD)

Deprecations

  • None

Enhancements

  • None

Fixed

  • <How to hit and notice issue? what was the impact?> (#????, since v?.?.?)
  • None

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

12.13.1 (2024-08-21)

Fixed

  • Fixed a build error on React Native iOS and Android from a change in the CallInvoker's invokeAsync call signature. (#6851 since v12.12.0 in combination with React Native >= v0.75.0).

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

12.13.0 (2024-08-14)

Enhancements

Fixed

  • Fixed an Invalid column key exception when using an RQL "BETWEEN" query on an int or timestamp property across links. (realm/realm-core#7935, since v12.12.0)
  • Fixed conflict resolution bug which could sometimes cause an Invalid prior_size exception to prevent synchronization (realm/realm-core#7893, since v12.10.0)
  • Fixed bug which would prevent eventual consistency during conflict resolution. Affected clients would experience data divergence and potentially consistency errors as a result. (realm/realm-core#7955, since v12.10.0)
  • Fixed issues loading the native Realm libraries on Linux ARMv7 systems when they linked against our bundled OpenSSL resulting in errors like unexpected reloc type 0x03. (realm/realm-core#7947, since v12.7.0)
  • Sync client may report duplicate compensating write errors. (realm/realm-core#7708, since v12.10.0)
  • String serialization of timestamps with a sufficiently large timestamp value could overflow an int causing undefined behavior, causing potentially bad values for the month/day/year values in stringified dates. (realm/realm-core#7934)
  • App subscription callback was getting fired before the user profile was retrieved on login, leading to an empty user profile when using the callback. (realm/realm-core#7889, since v12.9.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.11.0 to v14.12.0.

12.12.1 (2024-07-25)

Fixed

  • Fixed compiler error when building binding for React Native iOS: "'React-featureflags/react/featureflags/ReactNativeFeatureFlags.h' file not found" (#6808, since v12.12.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

  • Removed an unused import in the binding for React Native Android. (#6808, since v12.12.0)

12.12.0 (2024-07-23)

Deprecations

  • The callback for SyncSession.addProgressNotification taking transferred and transferable arguments is deprecated and will be removed. See Enhancements below for the new callback supporting both Flexible Sync and Partition-Based Sync. (#6743)
  • AppConfiguration.app is no longer used by Atlas Device Sync. It will be removed in future SDK releases and should not be used. (#6785)

Enhancements

  • Added support for "bridgeless" React Native on iOS and Android, a part of the "new architecture". (#6737)
  • Added progress notifications support for Flexible Sync using an estimate as the new callback argument. The estimate is roughly equivalent to an estimated value of transferred / transferable in the deprecated Partition-Based Sync callback. (#6743)
realm.syncSession?.addProgressNotification(
  ProgressDirection.Upload,
  ProgressMode.ReportIndefinitely,
  (estimate) => console.log(`progress: ${estimate}/1.0`)
);
  • It is no longer an error to set a base url for an App with a trailing slash - for example, https://services.cloud.mongodb.com/ instead of https://services.cloud.mongodb.com - before this change that would result in a 404 error from the server. (realm/realm-core#7791)
  • Performance has been improved for range queries on integers and timestamps when using the BETWEEN operator. (realm/realm-core#7785)
  • On Windows devices Device Sync will additionally look up SSL certificates in the Windows Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store when establishing a connection. (realm/realm-core#7882)
  • Role and permissions changes no longer require a client reset to update the Realm on-device. (realm/realm-core#7440)

Fixed

  • Opening an Flexible Sync Realm asynchronously may not wait to download all data. (realm/realm-core#7720, since v10.12.0)
  • Clearing a list of mixed in an upgraded file would lead to an assertion failing. (realm/realm-core#7771, since 12.7.0-rc.0)
  • Sync client can crash if a session is resumed while the session is being suspended. (realm/realm-core#7860, since v10.18.0)
  • If a sync session is interrupted by a disconnect or restart while downloading a bootstrap, stale data from the previous bootstrap may be included when the session reconnects and downloads the bootstrap. This can lead to objects stored in the database that do not match the actual state of the server and potentially leading to compensating writes. (realm/realm-core#7827, since v10.18.0)
  • Fixed unnecessary server roundtrips when there is no download to acknowledge. (realm/realm-core#2129, since v12.10.0)
  • Realm.App.Sync.SyncSession#uploadAllLocalChanges() was inconsistent in how it handled commits which did not produce any changesets to upload. Previously it would sometimes complete immediately if all commits waiting to be uploaded were empty, and at other times it would wait for a server roundtrip. It will now always complete immediately. (realm/realm-core#7796)
  • Realm#writeCopyTo() on an encrypted Realm without explicitly specifying a new encryption key would only work if the old key happened to be a valid nul-terminated string. (realm/realm-core#7842, since v12.10.0).
  • You could get unexpected merge results when assigning to a nested collection. (realm/realm-core#7809, since v12.7.0-rc.0)
  • When mapTo is used to have an alias for a property name, Realm.Results#sorted() doesn't recognize the alias leading to errors like Cannot sort on key path 'NAME': property 'PersonObject.NAME' does not exist. (#6779, since v11.2.0)
  • A mixed property with a collection could sometimes end up with a combination of values assigned by different clients. (realm/realm-core#7809, since v12.9.0)
  • Fixed removing backlinks from the wrong objects if the link came from a nested list, nested dictionary, top-level dictionary, or list of mixed, and the source table had more than 256 objects. This could manifest as array_backlink.cpp:112: Assertion failed: int64_t(value >> 1) == key.value when removing an object. (realm/realm-core#7594, since v10.6.0)
  • Fixed a bug when removing an object from a nested collection could lead to an assert with the message array.cpp:319: Array::move() Assertion failed: begin <= end [2, 1]. (realm/realm-core#7839, since v12.9.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

  • Adding a CallInvoker-based scheduler for Core on React Native and removing the "flush ui queue" workaround. (#6791)
  • Refactors throwing uncaught exceptions from callbacks dispatched onto the event loop from C++ on React Native. (#6772)
  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.10.0 to v14.11.0. (#6744)

12.11.1 (2024-06-25)

Fixed

  • path option in the Realm configuration not being set when using a synced Realm. (#6754, since v12.8.0). Note: if you have been using a custom path configuration with your synced Realm, this fix will lead to a re-download of its data in the custom path.

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

12.11.0 (2024-06-17)

Enhancements

  • Building for iOS and Android has been optimized for compatibility with future React Native versions, by deferring compilation of JSI dependent code to the dependent app's build. (#6650)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

12.10.0 (2024-06-14)

Enhancements

  • Report the originating error that caused a client reset to occur. (realm/realm-core#6154)
  • Reduce the size of the local transaction log produced by creating objects, improving the performance of insertion-heavy transactions. (realm/realm-core#7734)
  • A counter presentation data type has been introduced. The int data type can now be used as a logical counter for performing numeric updates that need to be synchronized as sequentially consistent events rather than individual reassignments of the number. (#6694)
    • See the API docs for more information about the usage, or get a high-level introduction about counters in the documentation.
class MyObject extends Realm.Object {
  _id!: BSON.ObjectId;
  counter!: Realm.Types.Counter;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "MyObject",
    primaryKey: "_id",
    properties: {
      _id: { type: "objectId", default: () => new BSON.ObjectId() },
      counter: "counter",
      // or: counter: { type: "int", presentation: "counter" },
    },
  };
}

const realm = await Realm.open({ schema: [MyObject] });
const object = realm.write(() => {
  return realm.create(MyObject, { counter: 0 });
});

realm.write(() => {
  object.counter.increment();
  object.counter.value; // 1
  object.counter.decrement(2);
  object.counter.value; // -1
});

Fixed

  • After compacting, a file upgrade would be triggered. This could cause loss of data for synced Realms. (realm/realm-core#7747, since 12.7.0-rc.0)
  • The function immediatelyRunFileActions was not added to the bindgen's opt-list. This could lead to the error TypeError: app.internal.immediatelyRunFileActions is not a function. (#6708, since v12.8.0)
  • Encrypted files on Windows had a maximum size of 2 GB even on x64 due to internal usage of off_t, which is a 32-bit type on 64-bit Windows. (realm/realm-core#7698, since the introduction of encryption support on Windows - likely in v1.11.0)
  • Tokenizing strings for full-text search could lead to undefined behavior. (realm/realm-core#7698, since v11.3.0-rc.0)
  • A non-streaming progress notifier would not immediately call its callback after registration. Instead you would have to wait for a download message to be received to get your first update - if you were already caught up when you registered the notifier you could end up waiting a long time for the server to deliver a download that would call/expire your notifier. (#7627, since v12.8.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.7.0 to v14.10.0. (#6701)
  • Added privacy manifest for Apple App Store. First released in v12.8.1-alpha.0 only. (#6638)

12.10.0-rc.0 (2024-05-31)

Enhancements

  • A counter presentation data type has been introduced. The int data type can now be used as a logical counter for performing numeric updates that need to be synchronized as sequentially consistent events rather than individual reassignments of the number. (#6694)
    • See the API docs for more information about the usage, or get a high-level introduction about counters in the documentation.
class MyObject extends Realm.Object {
  _id!: BSON.ObjectId;
  counter!: Realm.Types.Counter;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "MyObject",
    primaryKey: "_id",
    properties: {
      _id: { type: "objectId", default: () => new BSON.ObjectId() },
      counter: "counter",
      // or: counter: { type: "int", presentation: "counter" },
    },
  };
}

const realm = await Realm.open({ schema: [MyObject] });
const object = realm.write(() => {
  return realm.create(MyObject, { counter: 0 });
});

realm.write(() => {
  object.counter.increment();
  object.counter.value; // 1
  object.counter.decrement(2);
  object.counter.value; // -1
});

Fixed

  • A non-streaming progress notifier would not immediately call its callback after registration. Instead you would have to wait for a download message to be received to get your first update - if you were already caught up when you registered the notifier you could end up waiting a long time for the server to deliver a download that would call/expire your notifier. (#7627, since v12.8.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

12.9.0 (2024-05-23)

Enhancements

  • A mixed value can now hold a Realm.List and Realm.Dictionary with nested collections. Note that Realm.Set is not supported as a mixed value. (#6613)
class CustomObject extends Realm.Object {
  value!: Realm.Types.Mixed;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "CustomObject",
    properties: {
      value: "mixed",
    },
  };
}

const realm = await Realm.open({ schema: [CustomObject] });

// Create an object with a dictionary value as the Mixed
// property, containing primitives and a list.
const realmObject = realm.write(() => {
  return realm.create(CustomObject, {
    value: {
      num: 1,
      string: "hello",
      bool: true,
      list: [
        {
          string: "world",
        },
      ],
    },
  });
});

// Accessing the collection value returns the managed collection.
const dictionary = realmObject.value;
expectDictionary(dictionary);
const list = dictionary.list;
expectList(list);
const leafDictionary = list[0];
expectDictionary(leafDictionary);
console.log(leafDictionary.string); // "world"

// Update the Mixed property to a list.
realm.write(() => {
  realmObject.value = [1, "hello", { newKey: "new value" }];
});

// Useful custom helper functions. (Will be provided in a future release.)
function expectList(value: unknown): asserts value is Realm.List {
  if (!(value instanceof Realm.List)) {
    throw new Error("Expected a 'Realm.List'.");
  }
}
function expectDictionary(value: unknown): asserts value is Realm.Dictionary {
  if (!(value instanceof Realm.Dictionary)) {
    throw new Error("Expected a 'Realm.Dictionary'.");
  }
}

Fixed

  • Inserting the same typed link to the same key in a dictionary more than once would incorrectly create multiple backlinks to the object. This did not appear to cause any crashes later, but would have affecting explicit backlink count queries (eg: ...@links.@count) and possibly notifications (realm/realm-core#7676 since v12.7.1).
  • Having links in a nested collections would leave the file inconsistent if the top object is removed. (realm/realm-core#7657, since v12.7.0)
  • Automatic client reset recovery would crash when recovering AddInteger instructions on a Mixed property if its type was changed to non-integer (realm/realm-core#7683, since v10.18.0).

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.6.2 to v14.7.0.
  • Upgraded @trunk/launcher from v1.3.0 to v1.3.1 to support Apple's versioning scheme for macOS.

12.8.1 (2024-05-15)

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash experienced on React Native when accessing Realm.deleteFile, Realm.exists, Realm.schemaVersion, Realm.determinePath, Realm.transformConfig and User#isLoggedIn. (#6662, since v12.8.0)
  • Accessing Realm.App#currentUser from within a notification produced by Realm.App.switchUser (which includes notifications for a newly logged in user) would deadlock. (realm/realm-core#7670, since v12.8.0)
  • Fixed a bug when running an IN query on a string/int/uuid/objectId property that was indexed. (realm/realm-core#7642 since v12.8.0)
  • Fixed a bug when running an IN query on an int property where double/float parameters were ignored. (realm/realm-core#7642 since v12.8.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.6.1 to v14.6.2 + commits 5ba02142131efa3d97eda770ce33a85a2a085202 and 5462d47998b86459d328648c8057790a7b92af20.

12.8.0 (2024-05-01)

Deprecations

  • MetadataMode.NoMetadata is deprecated and will be removed. The new name is MetadataMode.InMemory.

Enhancements

  • Experimental feature: The new instance members App.baseUrl and App.updateBaseUrl() allow for retrieving and updating the base URL currently used for requests sent to Atlas App Services. These APIs are only available after importing "realm/experimental/base-url". (#6518)
  • Improved performance of "chained OR equality" queries for uuid/objectId types and RQL parsed IN queries on string/int/uuid/objectId types. (realm/realm-dotnet#3566, since the introduction of these types)

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug when running an IN query (or a query of the pattern x == 1 OR x == 2 OR x == 3) when evaluating on a string property with an empty string in the search condition. Matches with an empty string would have been evaluated as if searching for a null string instead. (realm/realm-core#7628, since v10.0.0)
  • App.allUsers() included logged out users only if they were logged out while the App instance existed. It now always includes all logged out users. (realm/realm-core#7300)
  • Deleting the active user left the active user unset rather than selecting another logged-in user as the active user like logging out and removing users did. (realm/realm-core#7300)
  • Fixed several issues around encrypted file portability (copying a "bundled" encrypted Realm from one device to another):
    • Fixed Assertion failed: new_size % (1ULL << m_page_shift) == 0 when opening an encrypted Realm less than 64Mb that was generated on a platform with a different page size than the current platform. (#realm/realm-core#7322, since v12.0.0-rc.3)
    • Fixed an exception thrown when opening a small (<4k of data) Realm generated on a device with a page size of 4k if it was bundled and opened on a device with a larger page size. (since v1.0.0)
    • Fixed an issue during a subsequent open of an encrypted Realm for some rare allocation patterns when the top ref was within ~50 bytes of the end of a page. This could manifest as an exception or as an assertion encrypted_file_mapping.hpp:183: Assertion failed: local_ndx < m_page_state.size(). (realm/realm-core#7319)
  • Schema initialization could hit an assertion failure if the sync client applied a downloaded changeset while the Realm file was in the process of being opened. (realm/realm-core#7041, since v10.8.0)
  • Queries using query paths on mixed values returns inconsistent results. (realm/realm-core#7587, since v12.7.0-rc.0)

Known issues

  • Missing initial download progress notification when there is no active downloads. (realm/realm-core#7627)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10.

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.5.1 to v14.6.1.
  • The metadata disabled mode (MetadataMode.NoMetadata) has been replaced with an in-memory metadata mode (MetadataMode.InMemory) which performs similarly and doesn't work weirdly differently from the normal mode. The new mode is intended for testing purposes, but should be suitable for production usage if there is a scenario where metadata persistence is not needed. (realm/realm-core#7300)

12.7.1 (2024-04-19)

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash when integrating removal of already removed dictionary key. (realm/realm-core#7488, since v10.0.0)
  • Removed incorrect privacy manifest for iOS. (#6624, since v12.7.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10 or later).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v14.5.1 to v14.5.2. (#6628)
  • Update URLs to documentation.

12.7.0 (2024-04-17)

Note

This version bumps the Realm file format to version 24. It is not possible to downgrade to earlier versions. Older files will automatically be upgraded to the new file format. Files created by Realm JavaScript prior to v6.0.0, might not be upgradeable. Only Realm Studio 15.0.0 or later will be able to open the new file format.

Note

This version communicates with Atlas Device Services through a different URL (https://services.cloud.mongodb.com). While we consider this an internal detail of the SDK, you might need to update rules in firewalls or other configuration that you've used to limit connections made by your app.

Enhancements

  • Added iOS Privacy Manifest. (#6547
  • Updated bundled OpenSSL version to 3.2.0. (realm/realm-core#7303)
  • Improved performance of object notifiers with complex schemas by ~20%. (realm/realm-core#7424)
  • Improved performance with very large number of notifiers by ~75%. (realm/realm-core#7424)
  • Improved performance of aggregate operations on Dictionaries of objects, particularly when the dictionaries are empty. (realm/realm-core#7418
  • Property keypath in RQL can be substituted with value given as argument. Use $P<i> in query string. (realm/realm-core#7033)
  • You can now use query substitution for the @type argument. (realm/realm-core#7289)
  • Storage of Decimal128 properties has been optimized so that the individual values will take up 0 bits (if all nulls), 32 bits, 64 bits or 128 bits depending on what is needed. ([realm/realm-core#6111]realm/realm-core#6111))
  • Querying a specific entry in a collection (in particular 'first and 'last') is supported. (realm/realm-core#4269)
  • Index on list of strings property now supported (realm/realm-core#7142)
  • You can set the threshold levels for trace output on individual categories. (realm/realm-core#7004)
  • Improved performance of RQL queries on a non-linked string property using >, >=, <, <= operators and fixed behavior that a null string should be evaluated as less than everything, previously nulls were not matched. (realm/realm-core#3939)
  • Added support for using aggregate operations on Mixed properties in queries. (realm/realm-core#7398)
  • Improved file compaction performance on platforms with page sizes greater than 4k (for example arm64 Apple platforms) for files less than 256 pages in size. (realm/realm-core#7492)
  • Added the ability to set the log level for one or more categories via Realm.setLogLevel. (#6560)
  • Added detection and better instructions when imported from the Expo Go app. (#6523)

Fixed

  • Aligned Dictionaries to Lists and Sets when they get cleared. (#6205, since v10.3.0-rc.1)
  • Fixed equality queries on a Mixed property with an index possibly returning the wrong result if values of different types happened to have the same StringIndex hash. (realm/realm-core#6407, since v10.5.0-beta.1)
  • @count/@size is now supported for Mixed properties. (realm/realm-core#7280, since v10.0.0)
  • Fixed queries like indexed_property == NONE {x} which mistakenly matched on only x instead of not x. This only applies when an indexed property with equality (==, or IN) matches with NONE on a list of one item. If the constant list contained more than one value then it was working correctly. (realm/realm-java#7862, since v10.20.0)
  • Uploading the changesets recovered during an automatic client reset recovery may lead to Bad server version errors and a new client reset. (realm/realm-core#7279, since v12.5.0)
  • Fixed crash in full text index using prefix search with no matches (realm/realm-core#7309, since v12.2.0)
  • Fixed a race condition when backing up Realm files before a client reset which could have lead to overwriting an existing file. (realm/realm-core#7341)
  • Fixed a bug when removing items from a list that could result in invalidated links becoming visible which could cause crashes or exceptions when accessing those list items later on. This affects synced Realms where another client had previously removed a list with over 1000 items in it, and then further local removals from the same list caused the list to have fewer than 1000 items. (#7414, since v10.0.0)
  • Fixed opening a Realm with cached user while offline results in fatal error and session does not retry connection. (#6554 and #6558, since v12.6.0)
  • Fixed sorting order of strings to use standard unicode codepoint order instead of grouping similar English letters together. A noticeable change will be from "aAbBzZ" to "ABZabz". (realm/realm-core#2573)
  • data and string are now strongly typed for comparisons and queries. This change is especially relevant when querying for a string constant on a Mixed property, as now only strings will be returned. If searching for data is desired, then that type must be specified by the constant. In RQL the new way to specify a binary constant is to use mixed = bin('xyz') or mixed = binary('xyz'). (realm/realm-core#6407)
  • Fixed diverging history due to a bug in the replication code when setting default null values (embedded objects included). (realm/realm-core#7536)
  • Null pointer exception may be triggered when logging out and async commits callbacks not executed. (realm/realm-core#7434, since v12.6.0)
  • Fixed a bug which caused crashes when reloading React Native apps. (#6579, since v12.0.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10 or later).

Internal

12.7.0-rc.0 (2024-03-26)

Note

This version bumps the Realm file format to version 24. It is not possible to downgrade to earlier versions. Older files will automatically be upgraded to the new file format. Files created by Realm JavaScript prior to v6.0.0, might not be upgradeable. Only Realm Studio 15.0.0 or later will be able to open the new file format.

Note

This release doesn't include the changes previously released as v12.7.0-alpha.0 and is a pre-release because we plan on updating the setLogLevel API before releasing this as v12.7.0: #6560 and we just wanted to get this out for Realm Studio v15.0.0.

Enhancements

  • Updated bundled OpenSSL version to 3.2.0. (realm/realm-core#7303)
  • Improved performance of object notifiers with complex schemas by ~20%. (realm/realm-core#7424)
  • Improved performance with very large number of notifiers by ~75%. (realm/realm-core#7424)
  • Improved performance of aggregate operations on Dictionaries of objects, particularly when the dictionaries are empty. (realm/realm-core#7418
  • Property keypath in RQL can be substituted with value given as argument. Use $P<i> in query string. (realm/realm-core#7033)
  • You can now use query substitution for the @type argument. (realm/realm-core#7289)
  • Storage of Decimal128 properties has been optimized so that the individual values will take up 0 bits (if all nulls), 32 bits, 64 bits or 128 bits depending on what is needed. ([realm/realm-core#6111]realm/realm-core#6111))
  • Querying a specific entry in a collection (in particular 'first and 'last') is supported. (realm/realm-core#4269)
  • Index on list of strings property now supported (realm/realm-core#7142)
  • You can set the threshold levels for trace output on individual categories. (realm/realm-core#7004)
  • Improved performance of RQL queries on a non-linked string property using >, >=, <, <= operators and fixed behavior that a null string should be evaluated as less than everything, previously nulls were not matched. (realm/realm-core#3939)
  • Added support for using aggregate operations on Mixed properties in queries. (realm/realm-core#7398)
  • Improved file compaction performance on platforms with page sizes greater than 4k (for example arm64 Apple platforms) for files less than 256 pages in size. (realm/realm-core#7492)
  • Added a static Realm.shutdown() method, which closes all Realms, cancels all pending Realm.open calls, clears internal caches, resets the logger and collects garbage. Call this method to free up the event loop and allow Node.js to perform a graceful exit. (#6571, since v12.0.0)

Fixed

  • Aligned Dictionaries to Lists and Sets when they get cleared. (#6205, since v10.3.0-rc.1)
  • Fixed equality queries on a Mixed property with an index possibly returning the wrong result if values of different types happened to have the same StringIndex hash. (realm/realm-core#6407, since v10.5.0-beta.1)
  • @count/@size is now supported for Mixed properties. (realm/realm-core#7280, since v10.0.0)
  • Fixed queries like indexed_property == NONE {x} which mistakenly matched on only x instead of not x. This only applies when an indexed property with equality (==, or IN) matches with NONE on a list of one item. If the constant list contained more than one value then it was working correctly. (realm/realm-java#7862, since v10.20.0)
  • Uploading the changesets recovered during an automatic client reset recovery may lead to Bad server version errors and a new client reset. (realm/realm-core#7279, since v12.5.0)
  • Fixed crash in full text index using prefix search with no matches (realm/realm-core#7309, since v12.2.0)
  • Fixed a race condition when backing up Realm files before a client reset which could have lead to overwriting an existing file. (realm/realm-core#7341)
  • Fixed a bug when removing items from a list that could result in invalidated links becoming visible which could cause crashes or exceptions when accessing those list items later on. This affects synced Realms where another client had previously removed a list with over 1000 items in it, and then further local removals from the same list caused the list to have fewer than 1000 items. (#7414, since v10.0.0)
  • Fixed opening a Realm with cached user while offline results in fatal error and session does not retry connection. (#6554 and #6558, since v12.6.0)
  • Fixed sorting order of strings to use standard unicode codepoint order instead of grouping similar English letters together. A noticeable change will be from "aAbBzZ" to "ABZabz". (realm/realm-core#2573)
  • data and string are now strongly typed for comparisons and queries. This change is especially relevant when querying for a string constant on a Mixed property, as now only strings will be returned. If searching for data is desired, then that type must be specified by the constant. In RQL the new way to specify a binary constant is to use mixed = bin('xyz') or mixed = binary('xyz'). (realm/realm-core#6407)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v15.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v24 (reads and upgrades file format v10 or later).

Internal

12.6.2 (2024-03-04)

Fixed

  • Fixed binding abstraction to allow access of certain properties ($$typeof for now) prior to its injection. (#6522, since v12.6.1)
  • Added a missing dependency on path-browserify. (#6522, since v12.6.1)

Internal

  • Using Realm Core v13.26.0.

12.6.1 (2024-02-26)

Fixed

  • Fixed User#callFunction to correctly pass arguments to the server. Previously they would be sent as an array, so if your server-side function used to handle the unwrapping of arguments, it would need an update too. The "functions factory" pattern of calling user.functions.sum(1, 2, 3) wasn't affected by this bug. Thanks to @deckyfx for finding this and suggesting the fix! (#6447, since v12.0.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Fix Cocoapods to version 1.14.3 on Github Actions.
  • Migrated bingen from util::Optional to std::optional.
  • Upgrading @realm/fetch to the newly released v0.1.1 and no longer bundling it into the SDK package.
  • SDK package is no longer using Rollup, but instead using bare tsc utilizing TypeScript project references. (#6492)

12.6.0 (2024-01-29)

Enhancements

  • Added an optional fetch parameter to the AppConfiguration. Use this to specify a custom implementation of the fetch function used by the app to perform network requests.

Fixed

  • Handle EOPNOTSUPP when using posix_fallocate() and fallback to manually consume space. This should enable android users to open a Realm on restrictive file systems. (#6349, since v12.2.0)
  • Application may crash with incoming_changesets.size() != 0 when a download message is mistaken for a bootstrap message. This can happen if the synchronization session is paused and resumed at a specific time. (realm/realm-core#7238, since v10.12.0)
  • Fixed errors complaining about missing symbols such as __atomic_is_lock_free on ARMv7 Linux. (realm/realm-core#7257)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.25.1 to v13.26.0. (#6403)
  • Bumping the required MacOS version to 10.13.

12.5.1 (2024-01-03)

Fixed

  • Accessing the providerType on a UserIdentity via User.identities always yielded undefined. Thanks to @joelowry96 for pinpointing the fix.
  • Bad performance of initial Sync download involving many backlinks. (realm/realm-core#7217, since v10.0.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.25.0 to v13.25.1. (#6335)

12.5.0 (2023-12-19)

Enhancements

  • Added an optional third keyPaths argument to the addListener methods of Collection and Object. Use this to indicate a lower bound on the changes relevant for the listener. This is a lower bound, since if multiple listeners are added (each with their own "key paths") the union of these key-paths will determine the changes that are considered relevant for all listeners registered on the object or collection. In other words: A listener might fire more than the key-paths specify, if other listeners with different key-paths are present. (#6285) 
    // Adding a listener that will fire only on changes to the `location` property (if no other key-path listeners are added to the collection).
cars.addListener((collection, changes) => {
  console.log("A car location changed");
}, ["location"]);
  • Exceptions thrown during bootstrap application will now be surfaced to the user via the sync error handler rather than terminating the program with an unhandled exception. (realm/realm-core#7197)

Fixed

  • Exceptions thrown during bootstrap application could crash the sync client with an !m_sess assertion. (realm/realm-core#7196, since v10.18.0)
  • If a SyncSession was explicitly resumed via reconnect() while it was waiting to auto-resume after a non-fatal error and then another non-fatal error was received, the sync client could crash with a !m_try_again_activation_timer assertion. (realm/realm-core#6961, since device sync was introduced)
  • Adding the same callback function as a listener on a Collection or Object used to be undefined behavior. Now it throws, which results in runtime errors that can be resolved by ensuring that the callback is only added once per object. (#6310)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.24.1 to v13.25.0. (#6324)

12.4.0 (2023-12-13)

Enhancements

  • Exporting a RealmEventName type. (#6300)
  • Automatic client reset recovery now preserves the original division of changesets, rather than combining all unsynchronized changes into a single changeset. (realm/realm-core#7161)
  • Automatic client reset recovery now does a better job of recovering changes when changesets were downloaded from the server after the unuploaded local changes were committed. If the local Realm happened to be fully up to date with the server prior to the client reset, automatic recovery should now always produce exactly the same state as if no client reset was involved. (realm/realm-core#7161)
  • Improved the experience of logging Realm.Object and Realm.Collection objects on Node.js, by providing a custom "inspect" symbol. (#2758)

Fixed

  • When mapTo is used on a property of type List, an error like Property 'test_list' does not exist on 'Task' objects occurs when trying to access the property. (#6268, since v12.0.0)

  • Fixed bug where apps running under JavaScriptCore on Android will terminate with the error message No identifiers allowed directly after numeric literal. (#6194, since v12.2.0)

  • When an object had an embedded object as one of its properties, updating that property to null or undefined did not update the property in the database. (#6280, since v12.0.0)

  • Fixed download of platform + arch specific prebuilt binaries when building an Electron app using electron-builder. (#3828)

  • Notification listeners on a Dictionary would only fire when the dictionary itself changed (via inserts or deletions) but not when changes were made to the underlying objects. (#6310, since v12.0.0)

  • Fixed deadlock which occurred when accessing the current user from the App from within a callback from the User listener. (realm/realm-core#7183, since v12.2.1)

  • Errors encountered while reapplying local changes for client reset recovery on partition-based sync Realms would result in the client reset attempt not being recorded, possibly resulting in an endless loop of attempting and failing to automatically recover the client reset. Flexible sync and errors from the server after completing the local recovery were handled correctly. (realm/realm-core#7149, since v10.3.0-rc.1)

  • During a client reset with recovery when recovering a move or set operation on a List<Object> or List<Mixed> that operated on indices that were not also added in the recovery, links to an object which had been deleted by another client while offline would be recreated by the recovering client. But the objects of these links would only have the primary key populated and all other fields would be default values. Now, instead of creating these zombie objects, the lists being recovered skip such deleted links. (realm/realm-core#7112 since the beginning of client reset with recovery in v10.18.0)

  • During a client reset recovery a Set of links could be missing items, or an exception could be thrown that prevents recovery e.g., Requested index 1 calling get() on set 'source.collection' when max is 0. (realm/realm-core#7112, since the beginning of client reset with recovery in v10.18.0)

  • Calling sort() or distinct() on a LnkSet that had unresolved links in it would produce duplicate indices. (realm/realm-core#7112, since the beginning of client reset with recovery in v10.18.0)

  • Automatic client reset recovery would duplicate insertions in a list when recovering a write which made an unrecoverable change to a list (i.e. modifying or deleting a pre-existing entry), followed by a subscription change, followed by a write which added an entry to the list. (realm/realm-core#7155, since v10.19.4)

  • Fixed several causes of "decryption failed" exceptions that could happen when opening multiple encrypted Realm files in the same process while using Apple/linux and storing the Realms on an exFAT file system. (realm/realm-core#7156, since v1.0.0)

  • If the very first open of a flexible sync Realm triggered a client reset, the configuration had an initial subscriptions callback, both before and after reset callbacks, and the initial subscription callback began a read transaction without ending it (which is normally going to be the case), opening the frozen Realm for the after reset callback would trigger a BadVersion exception. (realm/realm-core#7161, since v10.19.4)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.23.4 to v13.24.1. (#6311)

12.3.1 (2023-11-23)

Fixed

  • Fixed FLX subscriptions not being sent to the server if the session was interrupted during bootstrapping. (realm/realm-core#7077, since v10.12.0)
  • Fixed FLX subscriptions not being sent to the server if an upload message was sent immediately after a subscription was committed. (realm/realm-core#7076, since v12.3.0)
  • Fixed application crash with KeyNotFound exception when subscriptions are marked complete after a client reset. (realm/realm-core#7090, since v10.19.0)
  • Fixed a crash at a very specific time during a DiscardLocal client reset on a FLX Realm could leave subscriptions in an invalid state. (realm/realm-core#7110, since v10.19.4)
  • Fixed an error "Invalid schema change (UPLOAD): cannot process AddColumn instruction for non-existent table" when using automatic client reset with recovery in dev mode to recover schema changes made locally while offline. (realm/realm-core#7042)
  • When place an embedded object would create a new object and keep the original object too. (#6239, since v12.0.0)
  • When setting an embedded object in a Realm.List by index, the new object would be inserted at the end rather than replacing the existing object at the given index. (#6239, since v12.0.0)
  • When SyncConfiguration.clientReset was undefined, no client reset mode was set which could lead to an app crash with the message m_mode != ClientResyncMode::Manual. The default mode is now RecoverUnsyncedChanges and no callbacks are defined. (#6260, since v12.0.0)
  • Fixed writing the realm-constants.json file used for analytics / telemetry, which used to cause errors such as Unable to resolve module ../realm-constants.json for users installing the package into a mono-repo. We're now storing this information in the realm/package.json file instead. (#6144, since v12.0.0-rc.2)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.23.2 to v13.23.4. (#6234 and #6253)

12.3.0 (2023-11-03)

Enhancements

  • Allow asymmetric objects to contain fields with non-embedded (top-level) links (rather than only embedded links). (realm/realm-core#7003)

Fixed

  • The onBefore, onAfter, and onFallback client reset callbacks were not called. (#6201, since v12.0.0)
  • Symbol.unscopables has been implemented on the base class of Realm.Results, Realm.List, and Realm.Set. (#6215)
  • Deleting an object in an asymmetric table would cause a crash. (realm/realm-kotlin#1537, since v10.19.0)
  • Updating subscriptions did not trigger Realm auto-refreshes, sometimes resulting in async refresh hanging until another write was performed by something else. (realm/realm-core#7031)
  • Fix inter-process locking for concurrent Realm file access resulting in an inter-process deadlock on FAT32/exFAT file systems. (realm/realm-core#6959)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Some disabled tests for client reset (partition based sync) have been enabled. (#6201
  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.22.0 to v13.23.2. (#6220)

12.2.1 (2023-10-05)

Deprecations

  • Realm.User.providerType is deprecated, and will be remove in next major version. Use Realm.User.identities instead.

Fixed

  • Outside migration functions, it is not possible to change the value of a primary key. (#6161, since v12.0.0)
  • Receiving a write_not_allowed error from the server would have led to a crash. (realm/realm-core#6978, since v11.5.0)
  • If querying over a geospatial dataset that had some objects with a type property set to something other than Point (case insensitive) an exception would have been thrown. Instead of disrupting the query, those objects are now just ignored. (realm/realm-core#6989, since v12.0.0)
  • If a user was logged out while an access token refresh was in progress, the refresh completing would mark the user as logged in again and the user would be in an inconsistent state. (realm/realm-core#6837, since v10.0.0)
  • Logging in a single user using multiple auth providers created a separate Realm.User per auth provider. This mostly worked, but had some quirks:
    • Sync sessions would not necessarily be associated with the specific Realm.User used to create them. As a result, querying a user for its sessions could give incorrect results, and logging one user out could close the wrong sessions.
    • Existing local synchronized Realm files created using version of Realm from August - November 2020 would sometimes not be opened correctly and would instead be redownloaded.
    • Removing one of the Realm.Users would delete all local Realm files for all Realm.Users for that user.
    • Deleting the server-side user via one of the Realm.Users left the other Realm.Users in an invalid state.
    • A Realm.User which was originally created via anonymous login and then linked to an identity would still be treated as an anonymous users and removed entirely on logout.
    • realm/realm-core#6837, since v10.0.0

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.20.1 to v13.22.0. (#6158)

12.2.0 (2023-09-24)

Deprecations

  • Realm.App.Sync.reconnect(app) has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major version. You can use Realm.App.Sync.Session.reconnect() instead.

Enhancements

  • Added Realm.Sync.Session.reconnect() to help force a reconnection to Atlas Device Sync. (#6123)
  • Added Realm.App.AppConfiguration.metaData which will make it possible to encrypt metadata used by the Realm.App. (#6147)

Fixed

  • Fixed values of properties being replaced by default value when updating. (#6129, since v12.0.0)
  • Fixed that value for Realm.schemaVersion wasn't propagated correctly for non-existing files. (#6119, since v12.0.0)
  • Full text search supports searching for prefix only e.g., description TEXT 'alex*'. (realm/realm-core#6860)
  • Unknown protocol errors received from the Altas Device Sync server will no longer cause the app to crash if a valid error action is also received. Unknown error actions will cause device sync to fail with an error via the sync error handler. (realm/realm-core#6885)
  • Allow arguments to Realm Query Language to be a string representation of a geospatial object for GEOWITHIN queries. (realm/realm-core#6934)
  • Crash when querying the size of a Object property through a link chain. (realm/realm-core#6915, since v12.0.0)
  • Throw an exception when some limitation on the OS filesystem is reached, instead of crashing the application. The same file locking logic is now also used for all the platforms. (realm/realm-core#6926)
  • Fixed crash that generated the error message Assertion failed: ref + size <= next->first. (realm/realm-core#6340, since v11.3.0)
  • When using OpenSSL (i.e. on non-Apple platforms) a TLS handshake error would never be reported and instead TLS errors would be reported as a sync connection failure. When using SecureTransport (i.e. on Apple platforms) only some TLS handshake errors would be reported, but most were reported as a sync connection failure. Additionally, reported sync errors originating from OpenSSL have been improved. (realm/realm-core#6938).
  • Fixed Bad server version errors and client reset which sometimes occurred when updating a subscription's query. (realm/realm-core#6966, since v10.12.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.17.2 to v13.20.1. (#6077 & #6134)
  • Sync protocol version bumped to 10. (realm/realm-core#6902)
  • Error code reported in the sync error handling for compensating writes is reported as 1033 (previously 231). (#6077)

12.1.0 (2023-08-30)

Enhancements

  • Added configuration option migrationOptions.resolveEmbeddedConstraints to support for automatic resolution of embedded object constraints during migration. (#6073)

Fixed

  • Fixed toolchain on Linux. On older Linux installations, the error GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /home/user/MyProject/node_modules/realm/generated/ts/realm.node) could be observed. (#6082, since v12.0.0)
  • Fixed accessing Realm.Object.linkingObjects() when the origin and target are of different object types. (#6108, since v12.0.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Using Realm Core v13.17.2.
  • Removed pre-v12 source code.
  • Added API documentation for Realm.Configuration. (#6081, since v12.0.0)
  • Added typedoc-plugin-missing-exports to resolved missing exports.

12.0.0 (2023-08-17)

NOTE: This combines all changelog entries for prereleases of v12.0.0.

Breaking changes

Although this is a complete rewrite of our SDK, we've strived to keep breakages to a minimum and expect our users to upgrade from v11 without any significant changes to their code-base.

  • The entire BSON package used to be re-exported as Realm.BSON, to simplify the new SDK we want to export only the BSON types that our SDK database component supports (ObjectId, Decimal128 and UUID). See #4934.
  • As a part of migrating to NAPI (since ~ v6), we saw no performant way to support getting property names of a Realm.Object via the standard Object.keys(obj). As a side-effect we stopped supporting the object spread operator {...obj} and introduced Realm.Object#keys(), Realm.Object#entries() and Realm.Object#toJSON() methods were introduced as a workaround. The new SDK wraps its accessor objects in a Proxy trapping the ownKeys operation which enables calls to the standard Object.keys(obj) and the spread operator {...obj} to work correctly, with minimal performance impact on normal accesses. Therefore, we are deprecating the APIs with the @deprecation annotation and a console.warn when calling RealmObject#keys() and RealmObject#entries(). RealmObject#toJSON still serves the purpose of producing a circularly referencing object graph. We would love the community's feedback on this!
  • We're now reusing code to perform assertions and although this is strictly not a breaking change, since we haven't historically documented error messages, you should probably revisit any code in your app which relies on matching on specific error messages.
  • Results, List and Set used to inherit directly from Collection but now inherits from an abstract OrderedCollection, which extends Collection.
  • In order to better guide users toward correct usage and understanding of the Realm property types, users must now be explicit about the property type when declaring object schemas. Additionally, mixing shorthand (string) and object representation for the property type is no longer permitted. (See the PropertySchema and PropertySchemaShorthand types.)
// Example object schema
const TaskSchema = {
  name: "Task",
  properties: {
    description: /* property schema (shorthand or object form) */,
  },
};

// Explicitness
"[]"          // Bad (previously parsed as implicit "mixed")
"mixed[]"     // Good

{ type: "list" }                              // Bad
{ type: "list", objectType: "mixed" }         // Good

// Mixing shorthand and object form
{ type: "int[]" }                             // Bad
"int[]"                                       // Good
{ type: "list", objectType: "int" }           // Good

{ type: "int?" }                              // Bad
"int?"                                        // Good
{ type: "int", optional: true }               // Good

// Specifying object types
{ type: "SomeType" }                          // Bad
"SomeType"                                    // Good
{ type: "object", objectType: "SomeType" }    // Good

{ type: "object[]", objectType: "SomeType" }  // Bad
"SomeType[]"                                  // Good
{ type: "list", objectType: "SomeType" }      // Good

{ type: "linkingObjects", objectType: "SomeType", property: "someProperty" } // Good
  • To prevent modifying end-users' class-based model classes, we’re now creating and injecting a class in front of the class provided by the user. Objects will still pass instanceof SomeClass checks, however, code which is directly using prototype or constructor comparisons will fail:
Object.getPrototypeOf(object) == CustomObject.prototype // No longer works
object.constructor == CustomObject // No longer works
  • Symbols used to be accepted as keys in a dictionary, where they were coerced to strings prior to performing lookup. This was undocumented behavior that makes little sense in practice (and arguably defeats the main purpose of the JS Symbol type). In the new SDK, using a Symbol as a key in a dictionary will throw.
  • The push service has already been deprecated on the Atlas server. We've deprecated this on v11 and removed it from v12.
  • We’ve decided to remove numeric indexing and “array methods” from the SubscriptionSet, since (a) the team saw little actual use-case for it, (b) it would bloat our SDK code, and (c) there is a simple workaround if needed (spreading into an array [...realm.subscriptions]). (The property length is available.) Again, something we would love feedback on.
  • No longer exporting the ObjectPropsType, UserMap, UserType, BaseFunctionsFactory, AuthProviders, PropertyType, HTTP, *Details interfaces of the EmailPasswordAuthClient and AuthError types, since they weren't used internally and not expected to be used by users. Moreover, most of these are very simple to type out for any user relying on it. Similarly, the DictionaryBase type was introduced to help work around an issue (declaring string index accessors on a class with methods) in our declarations. We consider it an internal detail that got introduced as part of our public API by accident; thus, we ask users to use the Dictionary type directly. We also decided to rename the Session class to SyncSession since it’s now exported directly on the package namespace. Session will still be available (but deprecated) as Realm.Sync.Session. We’re no longer using the *Payload types (they were only used by Realm Web) and we don’t expect end-users to be relying directly on these, hence they were deleted.
  • The return values of Object#getPropertyType was changed to return "list" instead of "array".
  • On v11, if the C++ object had been destroyed already, we would often return undefined or some other default value when calling methods or accessing properties on the JS SyncSession object, even if that would violate our declared TS types. Now, in v12, we will throw from all methods and property accessors in this case.

Deprecations

  • Deprecated the SubscriptionsState enum (will be removed in v13) in favor of the now-named SubscriptionSetState. (#5773)

Notable new features

  • Added Realm.setLogger, that allows to setup a single static logger for the duration of the app lifetime. Differently from the now deprecated sync logger (that was setup with Sync.setLogger), this new one will emit messages coming also from the local database, and not only from sync. It is also possible to change the log level during the whole duration of the app lifetime with Realm.setLogLevel. (#2546)
  • Added a new error class CompensatingWriteError which indicates that one or more object changes have been reverted by the server. This can happen when the client creates/updates objects that do not match any subscription, or performs writes on an object it didn't have permission to access. (#5599)
  • Added experimental APIs to facilitate adding and removing subscriptions by subscribing and unsubscribing directly to and from a Results instance via Results.subscribe() (asynchronous) and Results.unsubscribe() (synchronous). (#5772)
    • Added a WaitForSync enum specifying whether to wait or not wait for subscribed objects to be downloaded before resolving the promise returned from Results.subscribe().
    • Extended SubscriptionOptions to take a WaitForSync behavior and a maximum waiting timeout before returning from Results.subscribe().
    • Added the instance method MutableSubscriptionSet.removeUnnamed() for removing only unnamed subscriptions.
    const peopleOver20 = await realm
  .objects("Person")
  .filtered("age > 20")
  .subscribe({
    name: "peopleOver20",
    behavior: WaitForSync.FirstTime, // Default
    timeout: 2000,
  });
// ...
peopleOver20.unsubscribe();
  • Added initial support for geospatial queries, with the possibility of querying points. No new data type has been added in this phase, but every embedded object property that conforms to CanonicalGeoPoint can be queried. (#5850)
    • The queries can be used to filter objects whose points lie within a certain area following spherical geometry, using the geoWithin operator in the query string to Results.filtered().
    • The following shapes are supported in geospatial queries: circle (GeoCircle type, defined by its center and radius in radians), box (GeoBox type, defined by its bottom left and upper right corners) and polygon (GeoPolygon type, defined by its vertices).
    • Additionally, two new functions have been added, kmToRadians() and miToRadians(), that can be used to convert kilometers and miles to radians respectively, simplifying conversion of a circle's radius.
    import Realm, {
  ObjectSchema,
  GeoCircle,
  CanonicalGeoPoint,
  GeoPosition,
  kmToRadians,
} from "realm";

// Example of a user-defined point class that can be queried using geospatial queries
class MyGeoPoint extends Realm.Object implements CanonicalGeoPoint {
  coordinates!: GeoPosition;
  type = "Point" as const;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "MyGeoPoint",
    embedded: true,
    properties: {
      type: "string",
      coordinates: "double[]",
    },
  };
}

class PointOfInterest extends Realm.Object {
  name!: string;
  location!: MyGeoPoint;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "PointOfInterest",
    properties: {
      name: "string",
      location: "MyGeoPoint",
    },
  };
}

realm.write(() => {
  realm.create(PointOfInterest, {
    name: "Copenhagen",
    location: {
      coordinates: [12.558892784045568, 55.66717839648401],
      type: "Point",
    } as MyGeoPoint
  });
  realm.create(PointOfInterest, {
    name: "New York",
    location: {
      coordinates: [-73.92474936213434, 40.700090994927415],
      type: "Point",
    } as MyGeoPoint
  });
});

const pois = realm.objects(PointOfInterest);

const berlinCoordinates: GeoPoint = [13.397255909303222, 52.51174463251085];
const radius = kmToRadians(500); //500 km = 0.0783932519 rad

// Circle with a radius of 500kms centered in Berlin
const circleShape: GeoCircle = {
  center: berlinCoordinates,
  distance: radius,
};

// All points of interest in a 500kms radius from Berlin
let result = pois.filtered("location geoWithin $0", circleShape);

// Equivalent string query without arguments
result = pois.filtered("location geoWithin geoCircle([13.397255909303222, 52.51174463251085], 0.0783932519)");

Enhancements

  • Added support for building with the new React Native architecture enabled on Android. Thanks to Nikolai Samorodov / @zabutok for contributing the fix. (#5032)
  • Opening a Realm with invalid schemas will throw a SchemaParseError (or one of its subtypes ObjectSchemaParseError and PropertySchemaParseError) rather than an AssertionError or Error. (#5198)
  • Enable multiple processes to operate on an encrypted Realm simultaneously. (realm/realm-core#1845)
  • Added support for a sync configuration option to provide an SSLConfiguration with a custom function for validating the server's SSL certificate. (#5485)
  • Improve performance of equality queries on a non-indexed mixed property by about 30%. (realm/realm-core#6506)
  • Improve performance of rolling back write transactions after making changes. (realm/realm-core#6513)
  • Extended PropertySchema.indexed with the full-text option, that allows to create an index for full-text search queries. (#5755)
  • Access token refresh for websockets was not updating the location metadata. (realm/realm-core#6630, since v11.9.0)
  • Using both synchronous and asynchronous transactions on the same thread or scheduler could hit an assertion failure if one of the callbacks for an asynchronous transaction happened to be scheduled during a synchronous transaction (realm/realm-core#6659, since v10.12.0)
  • Support sort/distinct based on values from a dictionary e.g. TRUEPREDICATE SORT(meta['age']). (realm/realm-core#5311)
  • Exposed SyncError.logUrl which contains the URL to the server log related to the sync error. (#5609)
  • Performance improvement for the following queries (realm/realm-core#6376):
    • Significant (~75%) improvement when counting (Realm.Results#length) the number of exact matches (with no other query conditions) on a string/int/uuid/objectId property that has an index. This improvement will be especially noticeable if there are a large number of results returned (duplicate values).
    • Significant (~99%) improvement when querying for an exact match on a date property that has an index.
    • Significant (~99%) improvement when querying for a case insensitive match on a mixed property that has an index.
    • Moderate (~25%) improvement when querying for an exact match on a bool property that has an index.
    • Small (~5%) improvement when querying for a case insensitive match on a mixed property that does not have an index.
  • Added a THROW_ON_GLOBAL_REALM which will enable throwing when the app is accessing the Realm without first importing it from the Realm package.

Fixed

  • Fix broken spread operator. (#2844, since v6.0.0)
  • Fix issues with yarn and the bson dependency. (#6040)
  • Report helpful errors if the realm binary is missing and provide guidance in the README.md. (#5981)
  • Fixed crashes on refresh of the React Native application. (#5904, since v11.7.0)
  • Fixed applying UpdateMode recursively to all objects when passed to Realm.create(). (#5933)
  • Fix a stack overflow crash when using the query parser with long chains of AND/OR conditions. (realm/realm-core#6428, since v10.11.0)
  • Fixed an issue that could have resulted in a client reset action being reported as successful when it actually failed on windows if the Realm was still open (realm/realm-core#6050).
  • Fix a data race that could cause a reading thread to read from a no-longer-valid memory mapping (realm/realm-core#6411, since v11.3.0-rc.0).
  • Added missing implementation of User.state and changed the UserState enum values to use pascal case to conform to the v11 implementation (except for UserState.Active that we now deprecate in favor of UserState.LoggedIn). (#5686)
  • Fixed App.currentUser() when being called on a new instance of App (#5790)
  • Fixed an error where performing a query like "{1, 2, 3, ...} IN list" where the array is longer than 8 and all elements are smaller than some values in list, the program would crash. (realm/realm-core#6545, since v10.20.0)
  • Performing a large number of queries without ever performing a write resulted in steadily increasing memory usage, some of which was never fully freed due to an unbounded cache. (realm/realm-core#6530, since v10.19.0)
  • Partition-Based to Flexible Sync Migration for migrating a client app that uses partition based sync to use flexible sync under the hood if the server has been migrated to flexible sync is officially supported with this release. Any clients using an older version of Realm will receive a "switch to flexible sync" error message when trying to sync with the app. (realm/realm-core#6554, since v11.9.0)
  • Fix deprecated namespace method warning when building for Android (#5646)
  • Fixed a potential crash when opening the realm after failing to download a fresh FLX realm during an automatic client reset. (realm/realm-core#6494, since v10.19.5)
  • Changing parameters for a query after initialization could lead to a crash. (realm/realm-core#6674, since v10.20.0)
  • Querying with object list arguments now works as expected. (realm/realm-core#6688, since v10.3.3)
  • Fixed a crash when querying a mixed property with a string operator (contains/like/beginswith/endswith) or with case insensitivity. ([realm/realm-core#6376](realm/realm-core#6376, since v10.5.0)
  • Querying for equality of a string on an indexed mixed property was returning case insensitive matches. For example querying for myIndexedMixed == "Foo" would incorrectly match on values of "foo" or "FOO". (realm/realm-core#6376, since v10.5.0)
  • Adding an index to a mixed property on a non-empty class/objectType would crash with an assertion. (realm/realm-core#6376, since v10.5.0)
  • Realm.App.Sync#pause() could hold a reference to the database open after shutting down the sync session, preventing users from being able to delete the Realm. (realm/realm-core#6372, since v11.5.0)
  • Fixed a bug that may have resulted in Realm.Results and Realm.List being in different orders on different devices. Moreover, some cases of the error message Invalid prior_size may have be fixed too. (realm/realm-core#6191, since v10.15.0)
  • Exposed Sync as named export. #5649
  • Fixed the return value of App.allUsers to return a record with the User.id as the key and the User as the value. #5671
  • Running a query on @keys in a Dictionary would throw an exception. (realm/realm-core#6831, since v12.0.0-rc.3)
  • Testing the size of a collection of links against zero would sometimes fail. (realm/realm-core#6850, since v12.0.0-rc.3)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Using Realm Core v13.17.2.
  • Re-implemented the entire SDK leveraging code generation for the binding between NAPI / JSI and Realm Core.
  • Aligning analytics with other Realm SDKs. You can still disable the submission by setting environment variable REALM_DISABLE_ANALYTICS, and you can print out what is submitted by setting the environment variable REALM_PRINT_ANALYTICS.
  • Enabling sync session multiplexing by default in the SDK. (#5831 & #5912)
  • Fix types in integration tests and added type checking to the lint command.
  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.17.1 to v13.17.2

12.0.0-rc.3 (2023-08-03)

Fixed

  • Fix Jest issues when testing against Realm. (#6003)
  • Fix Date and ObjectId arguments being empty objects in MongoDB client. (#6030)
  • Rare corruption of files on streaming format (often following compact, convert or copying to a new file). (#6807, since realm-core v12.12.0)
  • Trying to search a full-text indexes created as a result of an additive schema change (i.e. applying the differences between the local schema and a synchronized realm's schema) could have resulted in an IllegalOperation error with the error code Column has no fulltext index. (PR #6823, since realm-core v13.2.0).
  • Sync progress for DOWNLOAD messages from server state was updated wrongly. This may have resulted in an extra round-trip to the server. (#6827, since realm-core v12.9.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

Using Realm Core from v13.15.1 to v13.17.1

12.0.0-rc.2 (2023-07-14)

Fixed

  • Fixed updating helpers (the ClassMap) used by Realm before notifying schema change listeners when the schema is changed during runtime. (#5574)
  • Fixed crashes on refresh of the React Native application. (#5904)
  • Fixed applying UpdateMode recursively to all objects when passed to Realm.create(). (#5933)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Installation failed due to missing dependency (fs-extra), and the post-install script has been refactored to use fs instead.

12.0.0-rc.1 (2023-06-30)

Fixed

  • Include CJS index files in the packaged source for Realm. (#5893)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

12.0.0-rc.0 (2023-06-29)

Breaking changes

  • Now exporting only as CommonJS, to align with the way we exported from v11 in an attempt to keep breakage across the major version to an absolute minimum. This is a breaking change compared to the previous pre-releases of v12, since users have to update code which is doing named import of Realm to use default or * as Realm imports of the Realm constructor. (#5882)
  • SyncSession JS objects no longer keep their associated C++ objects, and therefore the sync network connection, alive. This was causing issues because JS garbage collection is lazy so the SyncSession may survive much longer than the last reference held to it. We now use the same technique as v11 to avoid keeping the C++ object alive (std::weak_ptr). (#5815, since v12.0.0-alpha.0)
    • Breaking change: On v11, if the C++ object had been destroyed already, we would often return undefined or some other default value when calling methods or accessing properties on the JS SyncSession object, even if that would violate our declared TS types. Now, in v12, we will throw from all methods and property accessors in this case.

Deprecations

  • Deprecated the SubscriptionsState enum (will be removed in v13) in favor of the now-named SubscriptionSetState. (#5773)
  • Removed deprecation of the Realm namespace, to align with v11 and ease the adoption of this major version. (#5883)

Enhancements

  • Opening a Realm with invalid schemas will throw a SchemaParseError (or one of its subtypes ObjectSchemaParseError and PropertySchemaParseError) rather than an AssertionError or Error. (#5198)

  • Enable multiple processes to operate on an encrypted Realm simultaneously. (realm/realm-core#1845)

  • Added Realm.setLogger, that allows to setup a single static logger for the duration of the app lifetime. Differently from the now deprecated sync logger (that was setup with Sync.setLogger), this new one will emit messages coming also from the local database, and not only from sync. It is also possible to change the log level during the whole duration of the app lifetime with Realm.setLogLevel. (#2546)

  • Added support for a sync configuration option to provide an SSLConfiguration with a custom function for validating the server's SSL certificate. (#5485)

  • Improve performance of equality queries on a non-indexed mixed property by about 30%. (realm/realm-core#6506)

  • Improve performance of rolling back write transactions after making changes. (realm/realm-core#6513)

  • Extended PropertySchema.indexed with the full-text option, that allows to create an index for full-text search queries. (#5755)

  • Access token refresh for websockets was not updating the location metadata. (realm/realm-core#6630, since v11.9.0)

  • Fix several UBSan failures which did not appear to result in functional bugs. (realm/realm-core#6649).

  • Using both synchronous and asynchronous transactions on the same thread or scheduler could hit an assertion failure if one of the callbacks for an asynchronous transaction happened to be scheduled during a synchronous transaction (realm/realm-core#6659, since v10.12.0)

  • Added APIs to facilitate adding and removing subscriptions. (#5772)

    • Experimental APIs: Enabled subscribing and unsubscribing directly to and from a Results instance via Results.subscribe() (asynchronous) and Results.unsubscribe() (synchronous).
      • Added a WaitForSync enum specifying whether to wait or not wait for subscribed objects to be downloaded before resolving the promise returned from Results.subscribe().
      • Extended SubscriptionOptions to take a WaitForSync behavior and a maximum waiting timeout before returning from Results.subscribe().
    • Added the instance method MutableSubscriptionSet.removeUnnamed() for removing only unnamed subscriptions.
    const peopleOver20 = await realm
  .objects("Person")
  .filtered("age > 20")
  .subscribe({
    name: "peopleOver20",
    behavior: WaitForSync.FirstTime, // Default
    timeout: 2000,
  });
// ...
peopleOver20.unsubscribe();

  • Added initial support for geospatial queries, with the possibility of querying points. No new data type has been added in this phase, but every embedded object property that conforms to CanonicalGeoPoint can be queried. (#5850)

    • The queries can be used to filter objects whose points lie within a certain area following spherical geometry, using the geoWithin operator in the query string to Results.filtered().
    • The following shapes are supported in geospatial queries: circle (GeoCircle type, defined by its center and radius in radians), box (GeoBox type, defined by its bottom left and upper right corners) and polygon (GeoPolygon type, defined by its vertices).
    • Additionally, two new functions have been added, kmToRadians() and miToRadians(), that can be used to convert kilometers and miles to radians respectively, simplifying conversion of a circle's radius.
    import Realm, {
  ObjectSchema,
  GeoCircle,
  CanonicalGeoPoint,
  GeoPosition,
  kmToRadians,
} from "realm";

// Example of a user-defined point class that can be queried using geospatial queries
class MyGeoPoint extends Realm.Object implements CanonicalGeoPoint {
  coordinates!: GeoPosition;
  type = "Point" as const;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "MyGeoPoint",
    embedded: true,
    properties: {
      type: "string",
      coordinates: "double[]",
    },
  };
}

class PointOfInterest extends Realm.Object {
  name!: string;
  location!: MyGeoPoint;

  static schema: ObjectSchema = {
    name: "PointOfInterest",
    properties: {
      name: "string",
      location: "MyGeoPoint",
    },
  };
}

realm.write(() => {
  realm.create(PointOfInterest, {
    name: "Copenhagen",
    location: {
      coordinates: [12.558892784045568, 55.66717839648401],
      type: "Point",
    } as MyGeoPoint
  });
  realm.create(PointOfInterest, {
    name: "New York",
    location: {
      coordinates: [-73.92474936213434, 40.700090994927415],
      type: "Point",
    } as MyGeoPoint
  });
});

const pois = realm.objects(PointOfInterest);

const berlinCoordinates: GeoPoint = [13.397255909303222, 52.51174463251085];
const radius = kmToRadians(500); //500 km = 0.0783932519 rad

// Circle with a radius of 500kms centered in Berlin
const circleShape: GeoCircle = {
  center: berlinCoordinates,
  distance: radius,
};

// All points of interest in a 500kms radius from Berlin
let result = pois.filtered("location geoWithin $0", circleShape);

// Equivalent string query without arguments
result = pois.filtered("location geoWithin geoCircle([13.397255909303222, 52.51174463251085], 0.0783932519)");

  • Support sort/distinct based on values from a dictionary e.g. TRUEPREDICATE SORT(meta['age']). (realm/realm-core#5311)

  • Support for HTTP proxy settings in the Realm configuration by adding proxyConfig to the sync configuration. You can continue to use environment variable HTTPS_PROXY. HTTP proxies are only supported for node.js and Electron. (#5816)

proxyConfig: {
  address: "127.0.0.1",
  port: 9876,
  type: ProxyType.HTTP,
}

Fixed

  • Fix a stack overflow crash when using the query parser with long chains of AND/OR conditions. (realm/realm-core#6428, since v10.11.0)
  • Fixed an issue that could have resulted in a client reset action being reported as successful when it actually failed on windows if the Realm was still open (realm/realm-core#6050).
  • Fix a data race that could cause a reading thread to read from a no-longer-valid memory mapping (realm/realm-core#6411, since v11.3.0-rc.0).
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when performing count() on an undefined query. (realm/realm-core#6443, since v12.0.0-alpha.2)
  • Added missing implementation of User.state and changed the UserState enum values to use pascal case to conform to the v11 implementation (except for UserState.Active that we now deprecate in favor of UserState.LoggedIn). (#5686)
  • Getting the indexOf a missing value will no longer return 4294967295 instead of -1 and the Set#has will no longer return true when missing. Caused by an incorrect conversion of size_t to Number on x86 (32bit) architectures. (#5746, since 12.0.0-alpha.0)
  • Fixed App.currentUser() when being called on a new instance of App (#5790)
  • Fixed an error where performing a query like "{1, 2, 3, ...} IN list" where the array is longer than 8 and all elements are smaller than some values in list, the program would crash. (realm/realm-core#6545, since v10.20.0)
  • Performing a large number of queries without ever performing a write resulted in steadily increasing memory usage, some of which was never fully freed due to an unbounded cache. (realm/realm-core#6530, since v10.19.0)
  • Partition-Based to Flexible Sync Migration for migrating a client app that uses partition based sync to use flexible sync under the hood if the server has been migrated to flexible sync is officially supported with this release. Any clients using an older version of Realm will receive a "switch to flexible sync" error message when trying to sync with the app. (realm/realm-core#6554, since v11.9.0)
  • Fix deprecated namespace method warning when building for Android (#5646)
  • Fixed a potential crash when opening the realm after failing to download a fresh FLX realm during an automatic client reset. (realm/realm-core#6494, since v10.19.5)
  • Changing parameters for a query after initialization could lead to a crash. (realm/realm-core#6674, since v10.20.0)
  • Querying with object list arguments now works as expected. (realm/realm-core#6688, since v10.3.3)
  • Fixed a crash when session multiplexing was enabled, caused by a use-after-free in SessionWrapper when tearing down sessions. (realm/realm-core#6656, since v13.9.3)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Realm Studio v14.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).
  • Lock file format: New format introduced for multiprocess encryption. All processes accessing the file must be upgraded to the new format.

Internal

  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.8.0 to v13.10.1. (#5739 & #5796)
  • Upgraded React Native from 0.71.4 to 0.71.7. (#5761)
  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.10.1 to v13.11.0. (#5811)
  • Bump sync protocol to v9 to indicate client has fix for client reset error during async open. (realm/realm-core#6609)
  • Aligning analytics with other Realm SDKs. You can still disable the submission by setting environment variable REALM_DISABLE_ANALYTICS, and you can print out what is submitted by setting the environment variable REALM_PRINT_ANALYTICS.
  • Enabling sync session multiplexing by default in the SDK. (#5831 & #5912)
  • Applied use of an opt-in list for Bindgen. (#5820)
  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.11.1 to v13.15.1. (#5873 & #5909)

12.0.0-alpha.2 (2023-04-05)

Enhancements

  • Added support for building with the new React Native architecture enabled on Android. Thanks to Nikolai Samorodov / @zabutok for contributing the fix. (#5032)
  • Exposed SyncError.logUrl which contains the URL to the server log related to the sync error. (#5609)
  • Added a new error class CompensatingWriteError which indicates that one or more object changes have been reverted by the server. This can happen when the client creates/updates objects that do not match any subscription, or performs writes on an object it didn't have permission to access. (#5599)
  • Performance improvement for the following queries (realm/realm-core#6376):
    • Significant (~75%) improvement when counting (Realm.Results#length) the number of exact matches (with no other query conditions) on a string/int/uuid/objectId property that has an index. This improvement will be especially noticeable if there are a large number of results returned (duplicate values).
    • Significant (~99%) improvement when querying for an exact match on a date property that has an index.
    • Significant (~99%) improvement when querying for a case insensitive match on a mixed property that has an index.
    • Moderate (~25%) improvement when querying for an exact match on a bool property that has an index.
    • Small (~5%) improvement when querying for a case insensitive match on a mixed property that does not have an index.
  • Added a THROW_ON_GLOBAL_REALM which will enable throwing when the app is accessing the Realm without first importing it from the Realm package.

Fixed

  • Fixed bootstrapping the native module on Android. Seen as Exception in HostObject::get for prop 'Realm': java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io.realm.react.RealmReactModule. (#5666, since v12.0.0-alpha.0)
  • Fixed passing RealmObject instances between shared Realms. (#5634, since v12.0.0-alpha.0)
  • Fixed a crash when querying a mixed property with a string operator (contains/like/beginswith/endswith) or with case insensitivity. ([realm/realm-core#6376](realm/realm-core#6376, since v10.5.0)
  • Querying for equality of a string on an indexed mixed property was returning case insensitive matches. For example querying for myIndexedMixed == "Foo" would incorrectly match on values of "foo" or "FOO". (realm/realm-core#6376, since v10.5.0)
  • Adding an index to a mixed property on a non-empty class/objectType would crash with an assertion. (realm/realm-core#6376, since v10.5.0)
  • Realm.App.Sync#pause() could hold a reference to the database open after shutting down the sync session, preventing users from being able to delete the Realm. (realm/realm-core#6372, since v11.5.0)
  • Fixed a bug that may have resulted in Realm.Results and Realm.List being in different orders on different devices. Moreover, some cases of the error message Invalid prior_size may have be fixed too. (realm/realm-core#6191, since v10.15.0)
  • Exposed Sync as named export. #5649
  • Fixed the return value of App.allUsers to return a record with the User.id as the key and the User as the value. #5671

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.0
  • Realm Studio v13.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Enabled all tests from v11 and fixed all remaining failures. (#5595)
  • Fixed linting issues and running linting on CI.
  • Upgraded Realm Core from v13.6.0 to v13.8.0. (#5638)
  • Build iOS prebuilt binaries in release mode by default. (#5709)

12.0.0-alpha.1 (2023-03-22)

This is a pre-release of the next major version of our SDK. Please read more and discuss in the dedicated discussion: #5416 See the release notes of previous pre-releases below for a complete picture of the changes introduced since v11.

Fixed

  • Importing using require from Node.js would throw because it would accidentally import the ESM bundle. (#5607, since v12.0.0-alpha.0)

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.0
  • Realm Studio v13.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

12.0.0-alpha.0 (2023-03-21)

This is the first pre-release of the next major version of our SDK. Please read more and discuss in the dedicated discussion: #5416

Breaking changes

Although this is a complete rewrite of our SDK, we've strived to keep breakages to a minimum and expect our users to upgrade from v11 without any significant changes to their code-base.

  • In an effort to align with EcmaScript modules, we’re adopting a pattern of named exports on the "root" of the package namespace. This change also affects how our library is imported on CommonJS / Node.js: Before, we exported our constructor directly from the package (module.export = Realm style), which would allow CommonJS runtimes like Node.js to import us using a simple assignment:
const Realm = require("realm"); // this commonjs style - won’t work anymore

From now on, users need to consume us using a named import, like this:

const { Realm } = require("realm"); // commonjs style

import { Realm } from "realm"; // esm style
import * as realm from "realm"; // esm namespaced style for more explicit usage like realm.List and realm.Object
import Realm from "realm"; // esm style - consuming our "default" export
  • Similarly we’re deprecating our namespaced API (the long chaining of identifiers, such as Realm.App.Sync.setLogLevel) in favor of the shorter named exports. Our main motivation is that it has proven very verbose and hard to maintain in our new SDK. Also, since the inception of the Realm JS API (which predates ES Modules), we believe the community has moved towards a preference for simple named exports. We would love your feedback on this decision - please comment on the discussion for the v12 release.
  • The entire BSON package used to be re-exported as Realm.BSON, to simplify the new SDK we want to export only the BSON types that our SDK database component supports (ObjectId, Decimal128 and UUID). See #4934.
  • We're now reusing code to perform assertions and although this is strictly not a breaking change, since we haven't historically documented error messages, you should probably revisit any code in your app which relies on matching on specific error messages.
  • Results, List and Set used to inherit directly from Collection but now inherits from an abstract OrderedCollection, which extends Collection.
  • In order to better guide users toward correct usage and understanding of the Realm property types, users must now be explicit about the property type when declaring object schemas. Additionally, mixing shorthand (string) and object representation for the property type is no longer permitted. (See the PropertySchema and PropertySchemaShorthand types.)
// Example object schema
const TaskSchema = {
  name: "Task",
  properties: {
    description: /* property schema (shorthand or object form) */,
  },
};

// Explicitness
"[]"          // Bad (previously parsed as implicit "mixed")
"mixed[]"     // Good

{ type: "list" }                              // Bad
{ type: "list", objectType: "mixed" }         // Good

// Mixing shorthand and object form
{ type: "int[]" }                             // Bad
"int[]"                                       // Good
{ type: "list", objectType: "int" }           // Good

{ type: "int?" }                              // Bad
"int?"                                        // Good
{ type: "int", optional: true }               // Good

// Specifying object types
{ type: "SomeType" }                          // Bad
"SomeType"                                    // Good
{ type: "object", objectType: "SomeType" }    // Good

{ type: "object[]", objectType: "SomeType" }  // Bad
"SomeType[]"                                  // Good
{ type: "list", objectType: "SomeType" }      // Good

{ type: "linkingObjects", objectType: "SomeType", property: "someProperty" } // Good
  • To prevent modifying end-users' class-based model classes, we’re now wrapping class-based models in our own model. Objects will still pass instanceof SomeClass checks, however, code which is directly using prototype or constructor comparisons will fail:
Object.getPrototypeOf(object) == CustomObject.prototype // No longer works
object.constructor == CustomObject // No longer works
  • Symbols used to be accepted as keys in a dictionary, where they were coerced to strings prior to performing lookup. This was undocumented behaviour that makes little sense in practice (and arguably defeats the main purpose of the JS Symbol type). In the new SDK, using a Symbol as a key in a dictionary will throw.
  • As a part of migrating to NAPI (since ~ v6), we saw no performant way to support getting property names of a Realm.Object via the standard Object.keys(obj). As a side-effect we stopped supporting the object spread operator {...obj} and introduced Realm.Object#keys(), Realm.Object#entries() and Realm.Object#toJSON() methods were introduced as a workaround. The new SDK wraps its accessor objects in a Proxy trapping the ownKeys operation which enables calls to the standard Object.keys(obj) and the spread operator {...obj} to work correctly, with minimal performance impact on normal accesses. Therefore, we are deprecating the APIs with the @deprecation annotation and a console.warn when calling RealmObject#keys() and RealmObject#entries(). RealmObject#toJSON still serves the purpose of producing a circularly referencing object graph. We would love the community's feedback on this!
  • The push service has already been deprecated on the Atlas server. We've deprecated this on v11 and removed it from v12.
  • We’ve decided to remove numeric indexing and “array methods” from the SubscriptionSet, since (a) the team saw little actual use-case for it, (b) it would bloat our SDK code, and (c) there is a simple workaround if needed (spreading into an array [...realm.subscriptions]). (The property length is available.) Again, something we would love feedback on.
  • No longer exporting the ObjectPropsType, UserMap, UserType, BaseFunctionsFactory, AuthProviders, PropertyType, HTTP, *Details interfaces of the EmailPasswordAuthClient and AuthError types, since they weren't used internally and not expected to be used by users. Moreover, most of these are very simple to type out for any user relying on it. Similarly, the DictionaryBase type was introduced to help work around an issue (declaring string index accessors on a class with methods) in our declarations. We consider it an internal detail that got introduced as part of our public API by accident; thus, we ask users to use the Dictionary type directly. We also decided to rename the Session class to SyncSession since it’s now exported directly on the package namespace. Session will still be available (but deprecated) as Realm.Sync.Session. We’re no longer using the *Payload types (they were only used by Realm Web) and we don’t expect end-users to be relying directly on these, hence they will be deleted.
  • The return values of Object#getPropertyType was changed to return "list" instead of "array".

Enhancements

  • The new SDK supports operations like Object.keys(obj) and the spread operator {...obj} on RealmObjects. We still recommend explicitly only accessing the fields you need rather than using spreads. Spreads eagerly access all fields in the object, which can have significant performance costs if some fields are not actually needed. (#1299, #2640, #2844)
  • Added configuration option SyncConfiguration.cancelWaitsOnNonFatalError, which defaults to false. When set to true, all async operations (such as opening the Realm using Realm.open()) will fail when a non-fatal error, such as a timeout, occurs.
  • Added an overload to Object.linkingObjects method that takes type of the linking object as an input instead of its string name (#5326) Example usage:
let linkedObjects = john.linkingObjects(Person, "friends");
  • Added an overload to Dictionary.set method that takes two arguments, a key and a value. (#4286) Example usage:
realm.write(() => {
  item.dictionary.set("key", "value");
});
  • Added 3 new methods on lists (#3324):
    • list.remove(index): removes the element of the list at the specified index.
    • list.move(from, to): moves one element of the list from one index to another.
    • list.swap(index1, index2): swaps the positions of the elements of the list at two indexes.

Fixed

  • None

Compatibility

  • React Native >= v0.71.4
  • Atlas App Services.
  • Realm Studio v13.0.0.
  • File format: generates Realms with format v23 (reads and upgrades file format v5 or later for non-synced Realm, upgrades file format v10 or later for synced Realms).

Internal

  • Re-implemented the entire SDK leveraging code generation for the binding between NAPI / JSI and Realm Core.
  • Renamed our master branch to main.