Release v1.4.3

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+layout: post
+title: "Announcing DuckDB 1.4.3 LTS"
+author: "The DuckDB team"
+thumb: "/images/blog/thumbs/duckdb-release-1-4-3-lts.svg"
+image: "/images/blog/thumbs/duckdb-release-1-4-3-lts.png"
+excerpt: "Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.3."
+tags: ["release"]
+---
+
+GH diff: <https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/compare/v1.4.2...v1.4-andium>
+
+In this blog post, we highlight a few important fixes and convenience improvements in DuckDB v1.4.3, the second bugfix release in [DuckDB's 1.4 LTS line]({% post_url 2025-09-16-announcing-duckdb-140 %}).
+You can find the complete [release notes on GitHub](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/tag/v1.4.3).
+
+To install the new version, please visit the [installation page]({% link install/index.html %}).
+
+## Windows ARM64
+
+### Python Wheel Distribution for Windows ARM64
+
+We now distribute Python wheels for Windows ARM64. This means that you take e.g. a Copilot+ laptop and run:
+
+```bash
+pip install duckdb
+```
+
+v1.4.4 is expected to also ship [extensions for Windows ARM64](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/pull/20004).
+
+## Fixes
+
+This version ships a few fixes:
+
+* [`#19754` Rare segfault occurring in the encryption key cache](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19754)
+* [`#19884` Copying to Parquet with a prepared statement did not work](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19884)
+* [`#19469` Potential error in constraint violation message when checking foreign key constraints](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19469)
+* [`#18997` Macro binding had slow performance for unbalanced trees](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/18997)
+* [`#19916` The default timezone of DuckDB Wasm in a browser had an offset inverted from what it should be](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19916)
+* [`#19313` Wrong result in cornercase: a `HAVING` clause without a `GROUP BY` returned an incorrect result](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19313)
+* [`#19924` The optimizer incorrectly removed the `ORDER BY` from aggregates](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19924)
+* [`#19517` `JOIN` with a `LIKE` pattern resulted in columns being incorrectly included](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19517)
+* [`#18782` Incorrect “rows affected” reported by ART index](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/18782)
+* [`#19575` Invalid Unicode error with `LIKE` expressions](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/19575)
+
+This was a short summary but there have been XX commits by over YY contributors since we v1.4.2. As usual, the full release notes can be [found on GitHub](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/tag/v1.4.4). We would like to thank our contributors for providing detailed issue reports and patches!