WARNING: This should only be used for beta testing at this time, not in production. It includes major functional, API, and behavioral changes that are NOT COMPATIBLE with SQLCipher 4 and earlier by default.

SQLCipher 5.0.0-beta details: https://www.zetetic.net/blog/2026/09/15/sqlcipher-5.0.0-beta/

Summary:

• Changes architecture to use VFS shims
• Uses AEAD Encryption with AES-256-GCM
• Increases KDF iteration increase to 512K
• Increase default page size to 8192 bytes
• Adds encryption and decryption support to PRAGMA rekey
• BREAKING CHANGES - see CHANGELOG.md and release announcement