Release date: Dec 21, 2023
Security
- By default, TLSv1.3 is now enforced on all PostgreSQL 12 or higher installations. Additionally, users can configure the
ssl_ciphers,ssl_min_protocol_version, andssl_max_protocol_versionGUCs (#3408). - Integration of Docker image scanning with Dockle and Snyk to enhance security measures (#3300).
Enhancements
- Improved reconciliation of external clusters (#3533).
- Introduction of the ability to enable/disable the
ALTER SYSTEMcommand (#3535). - Support for Prometheus' dynamic relabeling through the
podMonitorMetricRelabelingsandpodMonitorRelabelingsoptions in the.spec.monitoringstanza of theClusterandPoolerresources (#3075). - Enhanced computation of the first recoverability point and last successful backup by considering volume snapshots alongside object-store backups (#2940).
- Elimination of the use of the
PGPASSFILEenvironment variable when establishing a network connection to PostgreSQL (#3522). - Improved
cnpg reportplugin command by collecting a cluster's PVCs (#3357). - Enhancement of the
cnpg statusplugin command, providing information about managed roles, including alerts (#3310). - Introduction of Red Hat UBI 8 container images for the operator, suitable for OLM deployments.
- Connection pooler:
Fixes
- Reconciliation of metadata, annotations, and labels of
PodDisruptionBudgetresources (#3312 and #3434). - Reconciliation of the metadata of the managed credential secrets (#3316).
- Resolution of a bug in the backup snapshot code where an error reading the body would be handled as an overall error, leaving the backup process indefinitely stuck (#3321).
- Implicit setting of online backup with the
cnpg backupplugin command when eitherimmediate-checkpointorwait-for-archiveoptions are requested (#3449). - Disabling of wal_sender_timeout when joining through pg_basebackup (#3586)
- Reloading of secrets used by external clusters (#3565)
- Connection pooler:
- Ensuring the controller watches all secrets owned by a
Poolerresource (#3428). - Reconciliation of
RoleBindingforPoolerresources (#3391). - Reconciliation of
imagePullSecretforPoolerresources (#3389). - Reconciliation of the service of a
Poolerand addition of the required labels (#3349). - Extension of
Poolerlabels to the deployment as well, not just the pods (#3350).
- Ensuring the controller watches all secrets owned by a
Changes
- Default operand image set to PostgreSQL 16.1 (#3270).