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Week of September 21, 2026

What shipped

Added cursored bulk relationship deletion through a new CLI command and the DeleteRelationships API to handle large-scale deletions from CockroachDB. Pull request #3316
Introduced SortKeyRevision interface for order-preserving revision keys in datastore implementations. Pull request #3319
Enabled parallel test suite execution across consistency and datastore suites, fixing bugs uncovered by concurrency. Pull request #3328
Fixed MemDB serving revisions with invalid validity due to interaction between revision rounding and cache behavior. Pull request #3374
Fixed MemDB incorrectly serving reads from the empty creation snapshot after data had been written. Pull request #3366
Capped transaction retry backoff at 10 seconds to prevent unbounded exponential growth. Pull request #3353
Reduced Build Binary & Image CI job duration from 14 minutes to 5 minutes through runner upgrades and layered Docker builds. Pull request #3364
Fixed Postgres datastore startup breaking its own connection warm-up causing timeouts on first queries. Pull request #3333
Fixed MySQL watch path returning stale error instead of actual row iteration error. Pull request #3358
Corrected memory fallback constant from 256 KiB to 256 MiB as documented. Pull request #3329

Why it matters

This week focused on test reliability and performance. Parallel test execution uncovered and fixed multiple datastore bugs in MemDB and Postgres that would only manifest under concurrent load. CI improvements significantly reduced build times while the new bulk deletion API addresses practical limitations when operating at scale.

Changelog entry

feat(datastore): add cursored bulk relationship deletion via CLI and DeleteRelationships API Pull request #3316
feat(datastore): add SortKeyRevision interface for order-preserving revision keys Pull request #3319
perf(testing): run test suites in parallel with bugfixes for concurrent datastore access Pull request #3328
fix(memdb): stop serving revisions with invalid validity from optimized cache Pull request #3374
fix(memdb): prevent reads from empty creation snapshot after writes Pull request #3366
fix(datastore): bound transaction retry backoff at 10 seconds Pull request #3353
fix(postgres): stop startup cancelling connection warm-up Pull request #3333
fix(mysql): return actual error when reading watch metadata fails Pull request #3358
fix(runtime): correct memory fallback from 256 KiB to 256 MiB Pull request #3329
perf(ci): reduce Build Binary & Image job time from 14m to 5m Pull request #3364

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This week: cursored bulk deletion for large relationship sets, SortKeyRevision for ordered datastores, parallel test suites (+bug fixes), and 3x faster builds.

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SpiceDB shipped several improvements this week focused on reliability and performance. We added cursored bulk relationship deletion to handle large-scale deletions efficiently, introduced SortKeyRevision for ordered key-value stores, and enabled parallel test execution—uncovering and fixing multiple datastore concurrency bugs in MemDB and Postgres. CI builds are now 3x faster. These changes address real constraints when operating at scale.