diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index a94500d69..bae440989 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.66
 	github.com/minio/minio-go/v7 v7.0.92
 	github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.5.0
-	github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.25.2
+	github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.26.0
 	github.com/oklog/ulid v1.3.1
 	github.com/pquerna/otp v1.5.0
 	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 5122770f3..9e58407f9 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -328,6 +328,8 @@ github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822 h1:C3w9PqII01/Oq
 github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822/go.mod h1:+n7T8mK8HuQTcFwEeznm/DIxMOiR9yIdICNftLE1DvQ=
 github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.25.2 h1:suu3C7y92hPqozqO8+w3K333Q1VhWyN6K3JJKXdtC2U=
 github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.25.2/go.mod h1:46HIzeCQQ+aNleAxCli+vpA2tfh7ttSnw24kQahBc1o=
+github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.26.0 h1:dY6ASfuhSEbtSge6kJwjyJVC7bXCpgEVOycmdboKJek=
+github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.26.0/go.mod h1:46HIzeCQQ+aNleAxCli+vpA2tfh7ttSnw24kQahBc1o=
 github.com/ncruces/go-strftime v0.1.9 h1:bY0MQC28UADQmHmaF5dgpLmImcShSi2kHU9XLdhx/f4=
 github.com/ncruces/go-strftime v0.1.9/go.mod h1:Fwc5htZGVVkseilnfgOVb9mKy6w1naJmn9CehxcKcls=
 github.com/ncruces/julianday v1.0.0 h1:fH0OKwa7NWvniGQtxdJRxAgkBMolni2BjDHaWTxqt7M=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/README.md b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/README.md
index 94fd9950b..dd81b291c 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/README.md
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/README.md
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ db.QueryRow(`SELECT sqlite_version()`).Scan(&version)
 
 - [`github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3)
   wraps the [C SQLite API](https://sqlite.org/cintro.html)
-  ([example usage](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3#example-package)).
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3#example-package)).
 - [`github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver)
   provides a [`database/sql`](https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql) driver
-  ([example usage](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver#example-package)).
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver#example-package)).
 - [`github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed)
   embeds a build of SQLite into your application.
 - [`github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs)
@@ -44,12 +44,19 @@ db.QueryRow(`SELECT sqlite_version()`).Scan(&version)
 ### Advanced features
 
 - [incremental BLOB I/O](https://sqlite.org/c3ref/blob_open.html)
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/ext/blobio#example-package))
 - [nested transactions](https://sqlite.org/lang_savepoint.html)
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver#example-Savepoint))
 - [custom functions](https://sqlite.org/c3ref/create_function.html)
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3#example-Conn.CreateFunction))
 - [virtual tables](https://sqlite.org/vtab.html)
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3#example-CreateModule))
 - [custom VFSes](https://sqlite.org/vfs.html)
+  ([examples](vfs/README.md#custom-vfses))
 - [online backup](https://sqlite.org/backup.html)
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver#Conn))
 - [JSON support](https://sqlite.org/json1.html)
+  ([example](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver#example-package-Json))
 - [math functions](https://sqlite.org/lang_mathfunc.html)
 - [full-text search](https://sqlite.org/fts5.html)
 - [geospatial search](https://sqlite.org/geopoly.html)
@@ -57,7 +64,6 @@ db.QueryRow(`SELECT sqlite_version()`).Scan(&version)
 - [statistics functions](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/ext/stats)
 - [encryption at rest](vfs/adiantum/README.md)
 - [many extensions](ext/README.md)
-- [custom VFSes](vfs/README.md#custom-vfses)
 - [and more…](embed/README.md)
 
 ### Caveats
@@ -77,10 +83,19 @@ It also benefits greatly from [SQLite's](https://sqlite.org/testing.html) and
 [wazero's](https://tetrate.io/blog/introducing-wazero-from-tetrate/#:~:text=Rock%2Dsolid%20test%20approach)
 thorough testing.
 
-Every commit is [tested](https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/wiki/Support-matrix) on
-Linux (amd64/arm64/386/riscv64/ppc64le/s390x), macOS (arm64/amd64),
-Windows (amd64), FreeBSD (amd64/arm64), OpenBSD (amd64), NetBSD (amd64/arm64),
-DragonFly BSD (amd64), illumos (amd64), and Solaris (amd64).
+Every commit is tested on:
+* Linux: amd64, arm64, 386, riscv64, ppc64le, s390x
+* macOS: amd64, arm64
+* Windows: amd64
+* BSD:
+  * FreeBSD: amd64, arm64
+  * OpenBSD: amd64
+  * NetBSD: amd64, arm64
+  * DragonFly BSD: amd64
+* illumos: amd64
+* Solaris: amd64
+
+Certain operating system and CPU combinations have some limitations. See the [support matrix](https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/wiki/Support-matrix) for a complete overview.
 
 The Go VFS is tested by running SQLite's
 [mptest](https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/mptest/mptest.c).
@@ -118,4 +133,4 @@ and features we're working on, planning to work on, or asking for help with.
 - [`modernc.org/sqlite`](https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite)
 - [`crawshaw.io/sqlite`](https://pkg.go.dev/crawshaw.io/sqlite)
 - [`github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3)
-- [`github.com/zombiezen/go-sqlite`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zombiezen/go-sqlite)
\ No newline at end of file
+- [`github.com/zombiezen/go-sqlite`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zombiezen/go-sqlite)
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/config.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/config.go
index 3921fe98a..153fbd654 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/config.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/config.go
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ func (c *Conn) FileControl(schema string, op FcntlOpcode, arg ...any) (any, erro
 	default:
 		return nil, MISUSE
 
-	case FCNTL_RESET_CACHE:
+	case FCNTL_RESET_CACHE, FCNTL_NULL_IO:
 		rc = res_t(c.call("sqlite3_file_control",
 			stk_t(c.handle), stk_t(schemaPtr),
 			stk_t(op), 0))
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/const.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/const.go
index 522f68bfb..e4fc8297c 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/const.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/const.go
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ const (
 	FCNTL_DATA_VERSION        FcntlOpcode = 35
 	FCNTL_RESERVE_BYTES       FcntlOpcode = 38
 	FCNTL_RESET_CACHE         FcntlOpcode = 42
+	FCNTL_NULL_IO             FcntlOpcode = 43
 )
 
 // LimitCategory are the available run-time limit categories.
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/context.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/context.go
index abee4ec1e..7caf58626 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/context.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/context.go
@@ -177,12 +177,15 @@ func (ctx Context) ResultPointer(ptr any) {
 //
 // https://sqlite.org/c3ref/result_blob.html
 func (ctx Context) ResultJSON(value any) {
-	data, err := json.Marshal(value)
+	err := json.NewEncoder(callbackWriter(func(p []byte) (int, error) {
+		ctx.ResultRawText(p[:len(p)-1]) // remove the newline
+		return 0, nil
+	})).Encode(value)
+
 	if err != nil {
 		ctx.ResultError(err)
 		return // notest
 	}
-	ctx.ResultRawText(data)
 }
 
 // ResultValue sets the result of the function to a copy of [Value].
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/README.md b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/README.md
index 1a2d575bb..ba279a60b 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/README.md
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Embeddable Wasm build of SQLite
 
-This folder includes an embeddable Wasm build of SQLite 3.49.2 for use with
+This folder includes an embeddable Wasm build of SQLite 3.50.0 for use with
 [`github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3).
 
 The following optional features are compiled in:
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/build.sh b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/build.sh
index 88e12be31..c96a18653 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/build.sh
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/build.sh
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ trap 'rm -f sqlite3.tmp' EXIT
 	-o sqlite3.wasm "$ROOT/sqlite3/main.c" \
 	-I"$ROOT/sqlite3/libc" -I"$ROOT/sqlite3" \
 	-mexec-model=reactor \
-	-msimd128 -mmutable-globals -mmultivalue \
-	-mbulk-memory -mreference-types \
-	-mnontrapping-fptoint -msign-ext \
+	-mmutable-globals -mnontrapping-fptoint \
+	-msimd128 -mbulk-memory -msign-ext \
+	-mreference-types -mmultivalue \
 	-fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-clash-protection \
 	-Wl,--stack-first \
 	-Wl,--import-undefined \
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ trap 'rm -f sqlite3.tmp' EXIT
 "$BINARYEN/wasm-ctor-eval" -g -c _initialize sqlite3.wasm -o sqlite3.tmp
 "$BINARYEN/wasm-opt" -g --strip --strip-producers -c -O3 \
 	sqlite3.tmp -o sqlite3.wasm --low-memory-unused \
-	--enable-simd --enable-mutable-globals --enable-multivalue \
-	--enable-bulk-memory --enable-reference-types \
-	--enable-nontrapping-float-to-int --enable-sign-ext
\ No newline at end of file
+	--enable-mutable-globals --enable-nontrapping-float-to-int \
+	--enable-simd --enable-bulk-memory --enable-sign-ext \
+	--enable-reference-types --enable-multivalue
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/sqlite3.wasm b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/sqlite3.wasm
index 44f667926..c596e63e4 100644
Binary files a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/sqlite3.wasm and b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed/sqlite3.wasm differ
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/stmt.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/stmt.go
index 7fa2a504d..363b45af2 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/stmt.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/stmt.go
@@ -367,11 +367,9 @@ func (s *Stmt) BindPointer(param int, ptr any) error {
 //
 // https://sqlite.org/c3ref/bind_blob.html
 func (s *Stmt) BindJSON(param int, value any) error {
-	data, err := json.Marshal(value)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return s.BindRawText(param, data)
+	return json.NewEncoder(callbackWriter(func(p []byte) (int, error) {
+		return 0, s.BindRawText(param, p[:len(p)-1]) // remove the newline
+	})).Encode(value)
 }
 
 // BindValue binds a copy of value to the prepared statement.
@@ -751,3 +749,7 @@ func (s *Stmt) columns(count int64) ([]byte, ptr_t, error) {
 
 	return util.View(s.c.mod, typePtr, count), dataPtr, nil
 }
+
+type callbackWriter func(p []byte) (int, error)
+
+func (fn callbackWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { return fn(p) }
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/const.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/const.go
index b789d1203..11afb1254 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/const.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/const.go
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ const (
 	_FCNTL_CKSM_FILE             _FcntlOpcode = 41
 	_FCNTL_RESET_CACHE           _FcntlOpcode = 42
 	_FCNTL_NULL_IO               _FcntlOpcode = 43
+	_FCNTL_BLOCK_ON_CONNECT      _FcntlOpcode = 44
 )
 
 // https://sqlite.org/c3ref/c_shm_exclusive.html
@@ -246,6 +247,6 @@ const (
 	_SHM_EXCLUSIVE _ShmFlag = 8
 
 	_SHM_NLOCK = 8
-	_SHM_BASE  = 120
+	_SHM_BASE  = (22 + _SHM_NLOCK) * 4
 	_SHM_DMS   = _SHM_BASE + _SHM_NLOCK
 )
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/file.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/file.go
index 65409823c..8e65ca660 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/file.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/file.go
@@ -13,22 +13,28 @@ import (
 type vfsOS struct{}
 
 func (vfsOS) FullPathname(path string) (string, error) {
-	path, err := filepath.Abs(path)
+	link, err := evalSymlinks(path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	return path, testSymlinks(filepath.Dir(path))
+	full, err := filepath.Abs(link)
+	if err == nil && link != path {
+		err = _OK_SYMLINK
+	}
+	return full, err
 }
 
-func testSymlinks(path string) error {
-	p, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(path)
+func evalSymlinks(path string) (string, error) {
+	var file string
+	_, err := os.Lstat(path)
+	if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
+		path, file = filepath.Split(path)
+	}
+	path, err = filepath.EvalSymlinks(path)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return "", err
 	}
-	if p != path {
-		return _OK_SYMLINK
-	}
-	return nil
+	return filepath.Join(path, file), nil
 }
 
 func (vfsOS) Delete(path string, syncDir bool) error {
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/memdb/memdb.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/memdb/memdb.go
index 419fd1c64..94347f1cc 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/memdb/memdb.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/memdb/memdb.go
@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@ func (memVFS) Open(name string, flags vfs.OpenFlag) (vfs.File, vfs.OpenFlag, err
 	//
 	// We refuse to open all other file types,
 	// but returning OPEN_MEMORY means SQLite won't ask us to.
-	const types = vfs.OPEN_MAIN_DB |
-		vfs.OPEN_TEMP_DB |
-		vfs.OPEN_TEMP_JOURNAL
+	const types = vfs.OPEN_MAIN_DB | vfs.OPEN_TEMP_DB |
+		vfs.OPEN_TRANSIENT_DB | vfs.OPEN_TEMP_JOURNAL
 	if flags&types == 0 {
 		// notest // OPEN_MEMORY
 		return nil, flags, sqlite3.CANTOPEN
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/shm_windows.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/shm_windows.go
index 7cc5b2a23..0be523ad6 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/shm_windows.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/shm_windows.go
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ type vfsShm struct {
 	ptrs     []ptr_t
 	stack    [1]stk_t
 	fileLock bool
-	blocking bool
 	sync.Mutex
 }
 
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/vfs.go b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/vfs.go
index c70507caa..2656ddb49 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/vfs.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/vfs.go
@@ -381,6 +381,10 @@ func vfsFileControlImpl(ctx context.Context, mod api.Module, file File, op _Fcnt
 			file.SetDB(ctx.Value(util.ConnKey{}))
 			return _OK
 		}
+
+	case _FCNTL_NULL_IO:
+		file.Close()
+		return _OK
 	}
 
 	return _NOTFOUND
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 80fd676ee..dfeb502bd 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ github.com/modern-go/reflect2
 # github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822
 ## explicit
 github.com/munnerz/goautoneg
-# github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.25.2
+# github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 v0.26.0
 ## explicit; go 1.23.0
 github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
 github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver