# SeaORM release history: 43 candidates to 2.0

Source page: https://dev-news.anonyfox.com/sea-orm/

Every SeaORM release since 2024 from crates.io, the 43 release candidates before 2.0 drawn as a staircase against 1.0's seven, and what came of the Rust ORM stories dev-news covered.

## Where it stands (2026-10-24)

SeaORM 2.0.0 reached crates.io on 19 July 2026 after 43 release candidates spread over a year, from rc.1 in July 2025 to rc.43 four days before the final. Three of them went out on 29 December 2025. SeaORM 1.0 needed seven. Four 2.0 patches have followed, the latest on 27 September.

In August 2021 the team's release-model post said that after 1.0 "a major release will be rolled out every year. So you will probably be expecting a 2.0 in 2023." 1.0 arrived in August 2024 and 2.0 just under two years after it.

## Latest stable releases

- [2.0.4](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/2.0.4) (2026-09-27): Add selectexcept to select all columns except the given ones https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/3211
- [2.0.3](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/2.0.3) (2026-09-13): Fix panics when using selectalso / selectboth with a column that requires a cast on select #3194
- [2.0.2](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/2.0.2) (2026-08-12): Add requireone to fetch exactly one row, erroring if none: a non-optional counterpart to one() that returns the item directly and yields…
- [2.0.1](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/2.0.1) (2026-08-02): Add setpage to Paginator to set the current page https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2963
- [2.0.0](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/2.0.0) (2026-07-19): Expression methods like .eq(), .like(), .contains() now require
- [1.1.20](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.20) (2026-03-31): Add exists method to PaginatorTrait https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/discussions/730
- [1.1.19](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.19) (2025-11-11): Add findlinkedrecursive method to ModelTrait https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2480
- [1.1.18](https://crates.io/crates/sea-orm/1.1.18) (2025-11-10)
- [1.1.17](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.17) (2025-10-09): Added mapsqlxmysqlopts, mapsqlxpostgresopts, mapsqlxsqliteopts to ConnectOptions https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2731
- [1.1.16](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.16) (2025-09-11): Fix enum casting in DerivePartialModel https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2719 https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2720
- [1.1.15](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.15) (2025-08-31): Allow DerivePartialModel to have nested aliases https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2686
- [1.1.14](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.14) (2025-07-21): [sea-orm-cli] Mask sensitive ENV values https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2658
- [1.1.13](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.13) (2025-06-29): [sea-orm-cli] New --frontend-format flag to generate entities in pure Rust https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2631
- [1.1.12](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.12) (2025-05-27): Make sea-orm-cli & sea-orm-migration dependencies optional https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/pull/2367
- [1.1.11](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/releases/tag/1.1.11) (2025-05-07): Added ActiveModelTrait::defaultvalues

## What happened to the stories we covered

### SeaQL's release model (2021-08-30)

Original source: https://www.sea-ql.org/blog/2021-08-30-release-model/

The post planned weekly releases and 0.9 by April 2022; 0.9.0 came in July 2022. It expected 2.0 in 2023, and 2.0 shipped in July 2026.

### What's new in SeaORM 1.0-rc.x (2024-04-08)

Original source: https://www.sea-ql.org/blog/2024-04-08-whats-new-in-seaorm-1.0-rc.x/

Seven candidates in all; 1.0.0 followed in August 2024, and the 1.1 line ran to 1.1.20 in March 2026.

### Building a REST backend using Loco and SeaORM (2024-05-28)

Original source: https://www.sea-ql.org/blog/2024-05-28-getting-started-with-loco-seaorm/

Loco reached 1.0 on 29 July 2026, ten days after SeaORM 2.0, and its headline change was the move to SeaORM 2.0.

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