The theme of this release is better tools for working with binary data. The new insert-files command can be used to insert binary files directly into a database table, and other commands have been improved with better support for BLOB columns.

• sqlite-utils insert-files my.db gifs *.gif can now insert the contents of files into a specified table. The columns in the table can be customized to include different pieces of metadata derived from the files. See Inserting binary data from files. (#122)
• --raw option to sqlite-utils query - for outputting just a single raw column value - see Returning raw data from a query, such as binary content. (#123)
• JSON output now encodes BLOB values as special base64 obects - see Running queries and returning JSON. (#125)
• The same format of JSON base64 objects can now be used to insert binary data - see Inserting JSON data. (#126)
• The sqlite-utils query command can now accept named parameters, e.g. sqlite-utils :memory: "select :num * :num2" -p num 5 -p num2 6 - see Running queries and returning JSON. (#124)