CockroachDB 25.1 has achieved a nearly 20% performance improvement, focusing on reducing the cost of ownership by enhancing resilience and performance capabilities, including leader leases that enable faster recovery from node failures without sacrificing performance. With these improvements, customers and employees can judge companies more effectively based on local app availability and speed, making business operations more efficient globally. The new release also introduces various capabilities to improve resilience and performance, allowing users to deploy multi-region clusters with up to 12 vCPUs for extended periods at no additional cost.