Platform Support

⚠️ Windows Notice: Windows binaries are provided for convenience but Windows is NOT an officially supported platform. Use at your own risk. Community contributions for Windows improvements are welcome.

✅ Supported Platforms: Linux (amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7), macOS (amd64, arm64)

Installation

Homebrew (macOS and Linux)

brew tap benbjohnson/litestream
brew install litestream

Debian/Ubuntu

Download the .deb file for your architecture and install:

sudo dpkg -i litestream-*.deb

RPM-based systems

Download the .rpm file for your architecture and install:

sudo rpm -i litestream-*.rpm

Binary installation

Download the appropriate archive for your platform, extract, and move to your PATH.

VFS Extension (Experimental)

SQLite loadable extensions for read-only access to Litestream replicas are available for supported platforms:

| Platform | File | |----------|------| | Linux x86_64 | litestream-vfs-v0.5.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz | | Linux ARM64 | litestream-vfs-v0.5.4-linux-arm64.tar.gz | | macOS Intel | litestream-vfs-v0.5.4-darwin-amd64.tar.gz | | macOS Apple Silicon | litestream-vfs-v0.5.4-darwin-arm64.tar.gz |

Changelog

• fa0ba8efc764e2d1e931276639ad254fd678104d Add alternate Tigris endpoint (#906)
• d1688406ab89f15dcb2daf22f0a9ad687042ea4e deps: upgrade LTX to v0.5.1 (#909)
• f829b6f0d004dcc25b76178a49476d9fd5df0163 feat(s3): add X-Tigris-Consistent header for Tigris endpoints (#905)
• 8561d2ab6f221f78a5db151c3cd057752b64c854 feat: add dynamic directory watcher for automatic database discovery (#827)
• 140d77222e7cf733473b80e2677e64ee2dbfd05e fix(claude): move personal hooks to local settings (#908)
• 02b094ec3f2ff8f5ab0aae5815012e79aa40a913 fix(db): handle WAL offset at header boundary in verify (#901)
• 7989f62f09e824e2cf5b9ad0e7d1690a2bc53aed fix(db): prevent time-based checkpoints when no external changes (#898)
• 9bd72348b7e7b1b3b8cf1e8befbee3b2c17444f7 fix(deps): downgrade Go version from 1.25 to 1.24 (#892)
• 2d40205bec51b97caf56eb1285cb8e4218940bc3 fix(s3): disable aws-chunked encoding for Tigris endpoints (#907)
• ee0814074feca2b39a85b478d7a39a2cab660935 fix(s3): disable aws-chunked encoding when using unsigned payloads (#890)
• e2cbaf452f20f387fdb36acb12331123fbad475f fix(s3): improve S3-compatible provider compatibility (#899)
• feb65fb2a165ee17ec856b0d27e03907c17588ae fix(store): retry compaction when db not ready instead of waiting full interval (#888)