v1.17.5

Release date: March 20, 2023

!!! Warning Version 1.17 has reached End-of-Life (EOL). Version 1.17.5 is the last that will be released for the 1.17 minor version.

Enhancements:

• Extend the debug cluster's log level to the initdb job (#1503)
• Support IPv6 and custom pg_hba for the PgBouncer pooler (#1395)
• Document API calls from the instance manager (#1641)
• Clarify deployment name via Helm (#1505)
• Add the psql command to the cnp plugin for kubectl (#1668) allowing the user to start a psql session with a pod (the primary by default)

Technical enhancements:

• Adopt Renovate for dependency tracking/updating (#1367, #1473)

Fixes:

• Prevent panic with error handling in the probes (#1716)
• Properly show WAL archiving information with status command of the cnp plugin (#1666)

Release 1.17.4

Release date: Feb 14, 2023

!!! Warning Version 1.17 will reach its End-of-Life (EOL) on March 9, 2023. If you haven't done it yet, please start planning an upgrade as soon as possible.

Features:

• Support for Kubernetes' projected volumes (#1269)
• Support custom environment variables for finer control of the PostgreSQL server process (#1275)

Enhancements:

• Introduce the backup command in the cnp plugin for kubectl to issue a new base backup of the cluster (#1348)
• Add a database comment on the streaming_replica user (#1349)
• Document the firewall issues with webhooks on GKE (#1364)
• Add note about postgresql.conf in recovery (#1211)
• Add instructions on installing plugin using packages (#1357)
• Specify Postgres versions supported by each minor release (#1355)
• Clarify the meaning of PVC group in EDB Postgres for Kubernetes (#1344)
• Add an example of the DigitalOcean S3-compatible Spaces (#1289)

Technical enhancements:

• Added daily end-to-end smoke test for release branches (#1235)

Fixes:

• Ensure that the PVC roles are always consistent (#1380)
• Permit walStorage resize when using pvcTemplate (#1315)
• Avoid PodMonitor reconcile if Prometheus is not installed (#1238)
• Avoid looking for PodMonitor when not needed (#1213)

v1.17.3

Release date: Dec 21, 2022

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:

• Improve compatibility with Istio: add support for Istio’s quit endpoint so that jobs with Istio sidecars do not run indefinitely (#967)
• 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 the PVC containing WALs is deleted when scaling down the cluster (#1135)
• 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)

v1.17.2

Release date: Nov 10, 2022

Security:

• Add SeccomProfile to Pods and Containers (#888)

Enhancements:

• status command for the cnp plugin:
  • Clarify display for fenced clusters (#886)
  • Improve display for replica clusters (#871)
• Documentation:
  • Improve monitoring page, providing instructions on how to evaluate the observability capabilities of EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on a local system using Prometheus and Grafana (#968)
  • Add page on design reasons for custom controller (#918)
• Set PostgreSQL 15.0 as the new default version (#821)

Fixes:

• Import a database with plpgsql functions (#974)
• Properly find the closest backup when doing Point-in-time recovery (#949)
• Clarify that the ScheduledBackup format does not follow Kubernetes CronJob format (#883)
• Bases the failover logic on the Postgres information from the instance manager, rather than Kubernetes pod readiness, which could be stale (#890)
• Ensure we have a WAL to archive for every newly created cluster. The lack could prevent backups from working (#897)
• Correct YAML key names for barmanObjectStore in documentation (#877)
• Fix krew release (#866)

v1.17.1

Release date: Oct 6, 2022

Enhancements:

• Introduce leaseDuration and renewDeadline parameters in the controller manager to enhance configuration of the leader election in operator deployments (#759)
• Improve the mechanism that checks that the backup object store is empty before archiving a WAL file for the first time: a new file called .check-empty-wal-archive is placed in the PGDATA immediately after the cluster is bootstrapped and it is then removed after the first WAL file is successfully archived

Security:

• Explicitly set permissions of the instance manager binary that is copied in the distroless/static:nonroot container image, by using the nonroot:nonroot user (#754)

Fixes:

• Drop any active connection on a standby after it is promoted to primary (#737)
• Honor MAPPEDMETRIC and DURATION metric types conversion in the native Prometheus exporter (#765)
• Ensure that timestamps that are specified with microsecond precision using the PostgreSQL format are correctly parsed (#741)

v1.17.0

docs: adds documentation for Windows install (#3)

Co-authored-by: Leonardo Cecchi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Armando Ruocco <[email protected]>

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)

v1.16.4

Release date: Nov 10, 2022

Security:

• Add SeccomProfile to Pods and Containers (#888)

Enhancements:

• status command for the cnp plugin:
  • Clarify display for fenced clusters (#886)
  • Improve display for replica clusters (#871)
• Documentation:
  • Improve monitoring page, providing instructions on how to evaluate the observability capabilities of EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on a local system using Prometheus and Grafana (#968)
  • Add page on design reasons for custom controller (#918)

Fixes:

• Import a database with plpgsql functions (#974)
• Properly find the closest backup when doing Point-in-time recovery (#949)
• Clarify that the ScheduledBackup format does not follow Kubernetes CronJob format (#883)
• Bases the failover logic on the Postgres information from the instance manager, rather than Kubernetes pod readiness, which could be stale (#890)
• Ensure we have a WAL to archive for every newly created cluster. The lack could prevent backups from working (#897)
• Correct YAML key names for barmanObjectStore in documentation (#877)
• Fix krew release (#866)

v1.16.3

Release date: Oct 6, 2022

Enhancements:

• Introduce leaseDuration and renewDeadline parameters in the controller manager to enhance configuration of the leader election in operator deployments (#759)
• Improve the mechanism that checks that the backup object store is empty before archiving a WAL file for the first time: a new file called .check-empty-wal-archive is placed in the PGDATA immediately after the cluster is bootstrapped and it is then removed after the first WAL file is successfully archived

Security:

• Explicitly set permissions of the instance manager binary that is copied in the distroless/static:nonroot container image, by using the nonroot:nonroot user (#754)

Fixes:

• Drop any active connection on a standby after it is promoted to primary (#737)
• Honor MAPPEDMETRIC and DURATION metric types conversion in the native Prometheus exporter (#765)

v1.16.2

docs: adds documentation for Windows install (#3)

Co-authored-by: Leonardo Cecchi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Armando Ruocco <[email protected]>