# What's new in FoundationDB 7.4?

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**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [September 3, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/whats-new-in-foundationdb-7-4/5064 "2025-09-03T15:55:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![jon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/jon/32/1896_2.png) [@jon](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/jon)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/whats-new-in-foundationdb-7-4/5064/1 "2025-09-03T15:55:46Z")

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Friends, I know there’s a robust conversation about information accessibility happening over in [Improving (Perceived) Complexity](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/improving-perceived-complexity/4989) , but as a more focused question: what’s new in FoundationDB 7.4? At the time of writing, my (likely flawed!) understanding is that 7.3.68/69 is the current stable release, and 7.4.3/4 is still a pre-release.

Even so, what are the biggest changes from 7.3 to 7.4?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![panghy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/panghy/32/19_2.png) [@panghy](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/panghy)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/whats-new-in-foundationdb-7-4/5064/2 "2025-09-03T16:14:53Z")

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👆 is from README.md, 7.3.68/69 is the stable release indeed. And indeed until we all figure out how to make things easier to find, what’s new in 7.4 can be found at: [Release Notes — FoundationDB 7.4.4 documentation](https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/release-notes/release-notes-740.html#features-supported)

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**Author:** ![jon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/jon/32/1896_2.png) [@jon](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/jon)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/whats-new-in-foundationdb-7-4/5064/3 "2025-09-03T16:17:10Z")

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Excellent—thanks kindly!

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**Author:** ![jzhou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/jzhou/32/445_2.png) [@jzhou](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/jzhou)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/whats-new-in-foundationdb-7-4/5064/4 "2025-09-10T18:12:47Z")

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For 7.4, the biggest features are:

- [Backup V2](https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/design/backup_v2_partitioned_logs.md): this feature will reduce writes to log system by 50%, thus improving commit latency and reducing the number of tlogs required. This is code complete, and we are actively testing the feature to make it production ready at some later patch releases.
- Bulk dumping/loading. This is experimental in 7.4.