SeaQL's release model
What happened next
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.
Latest stable SeaORM: 2.0.4, released (release notes). 32 stable releases since 14 Jan 2024.
43release candidates before 2.0
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.
As of 24 October 2026. Announcing SeaORM 2.0.

Dashed: majors at the yearly pace from the 2021 post. Yellow: majors that shipped.
2.0.4Adds select_except, the inverse of select_only.2.0.3Fixes panics in select_also and select_both on columns that need a cast.2.0.2Adds require_one, which errors with RecordNotFound instead of returning an Option.2.0.1Adds set_page to Paginator and as_option on optional active values.2.0.0Dense entity format, entity-first schema sync, nested ActiveModel, 1.0 API kept for migration.
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.
Seven candidates in all; 1.0.0 followed in August 2024, and the 1.1 line ran to 1.1.20 in March 2026.
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.