diff --git a/content/database-orm/eloquent-orm.mdx b/content/database-orm/eloquent-orm.mdx
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--- a/content/database-orm/eloquent-orm.mdx
+++ b/content/database-orm/eloquent-orm.mdx
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ Remember that the Namespace inside the WordPress plugins architecture should be
WP Bones connects Eloquent to the database WordPress itself uses. On most sites that is MySQL, configured by `DB_HOST`, `DB_NAME`, `DB_USER` and `DB_PASSWORD` in `wp-config.php`.
+Since WP Bones 2.0.12 that connection talks to MySQL the way WordPress does. It uses the charset and collation WordPress settled on (`$wpdb->charset` and `$wpdb->collate`, `utf8mb4` on any recent install, even when `DB_CHARSET` still says `utf8`), so emoji and other 4-byte characters are written and read back intact. It also reads `DB_HOST` like WordPress: a port (`localhost:3307`) and a socket (`localhost:/tmp/mysql.sock`) both work, and an IPv6 host is put in brackets when PHP uses `mysqlnd`, as WordPress does.
+
+
+Up to 2.0.11 the connection was always `utf8`: on MySQL 8 writing an emoji through Eloquent failed with error 3988, and an emoji written by WordPress came back as `?`. A `DB_HOST` with a socket didn't connect.
+
+
Since WP Bones 2.0.11, when WordPress runs on SQLite (WordPress Playground, WordPress Studio, or any site with the [SQLite Database Integration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-database-integration/) plugin), Eloquent connects to the same SQLite file instead, the one the `FQDB` constant points at. The WordPress tables keep their names there, so your models work unchanged, and what they write is what `$wpdb` reads.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -77,5 +77,5 @@
"test": "yarn next typegen && yarn format:test && yarn lint && yarn typecheck && yarn jest",
"typecheck": "tsc --noEmit"
},
- "version": "2.0.11"
+ "version": "2.0.12"
}
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