v1.16.5

Release date: Dec 21, 2022

!!! Warning Version 1.16 has reached End-of-Life (EOL). Version 1.16.5 is the last that will be released for the 1.16 minor version.

Important announcements:

• Recognizing Armando Ruocco (@armru) as a new EDB Postgres for Kubernetes maintainer for his consistent and impactful contributions (#1167)
• Remove ARMv7 support (#1092)
• FINAL patch release for 1.16: 1.16.5. Release 1.16 reaches end of life.

Enhancements:

• Add rpm/deb package for kubectl-cnp plugin (#1008)
• Update default PostgreSQL version for new cluster definitions to 15.1 (#908)
• Documentation
  • Remove references to CNP sandbox (#1120) - the CNP sandbox has been deprecated, in favor of instructions on monitoring in the Quickstart documentation
  • Link to the "Release updates" discussion (#1148) - the release updates discussion will become the default channel for release announcements and discussions
  • Document emeritus status for maintainers in GOVERNANCE.md (#1033) - explains how maintainers should proceed if they are not ready to continue contributing
  • Improve instructions on creating pull requests (#1132)
  • Troubleshooting emergency backup instructions (#1184)

Fixes:

• Ensure PGDATA permissions on bootstrap are properly set to 750 (#1164)
• Ensure that we create secrets and services only when not found (#1145)
• Respect configured pg-wal when restoring (#1216)
• Filter out replicas from nodeToClusters map (#1194)

Technical enhancements:

• Use ciclops for test summary (#1064): rely on the ciclops GitHub action to provide summaries of the E2E suite, inheriting improvements from that project
• Add backport pull request workflow (#965) - automatically backport patches to release branches if they are so annotated
• Make the operator log level configurable in e2e test suite (#1094)
• Enable test execution based on labels (#951)
• Update Go version from 1.18 to 1.19 (#1166)