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.1 details: https://www.zetetic.net/blog/2026/10/22/sqlcipher-5.0.0-beta.1/

Changes between 5.0.0-beta to 5.0.0-beta.1:

• Changes architecture to use codec
• Adjusts KDF iteration back to 256K
• Rekey support for databases in WAL mode with concurrent connections
• Journal spill behavior is now locked down to prevent plaintext writes
• Fixed a bug where cipher_hmac_fast_kdf could write the page HMAC past the reserved area
• Improved error handling and reporting for rekey failures
• Fixed shared cache connections for encrypted databases
• Added PRAGMA cipher_selftest for verifying internal implementations

Summary of major version 5 changes:

• Uses AEAD Encryption with AES-256-GCM
• Increase default page size to 8192 bytes
• Adds encryption and decryption support to PRAGMA rekey
• BREAKING CHANGES - see CHANGELOG.md and release announcement