EnterpriseDB/barman release/3.5.0

Barman 3.5.0

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Version 3.5.0 - 29 March 2023

Features

• Python 2.7 is no longer supported. The earliest Python version
  supported is now 3.6.

• The barman, barman-cli and barman-cli-cloud packages for
  EL7 now require python 3.6 instead of python 2.7. For other
  supported platforms, Barman packages already require python
  versions 3.6 or later so packaging is unaffected.

• Support for PostgreSQL 10 will be discontinued in future Barman
  releases; 3.5.x is the last version of Barman with support for
  PostgreSQL 10.

• Backups and WALs uploaded to Google Cloud Storage can now be
  encrypted using a specific KMS key by using the --kms-key-name
  option with barman-cloud-backup or barman-cloud-wal-archive.

• Backups and WALs uploaded to AWS S3 can now be encrypted using a
  specific KMS key by using the --sse-kms-key-id option with
  barman-cloud-backup or barman-cloud-wal-archive along with
  --encryption=aws:kms.

• Two new configuration options are provided which make it possible
  to limit the rate at which parallel workers are started during
  backups with backup_method = rsync and recoveries.
  parallel_jobs_start_batch_size can be set to limit the amount of
  parallel workers which will be started in a single batch, and
  parallel_jobs_start_batch_period can be set to define the time
  in seconds over which a single batch of workers will be started.
  These can be overridden using the arguments --jobs-start-batch-size
  and --jobs-start-batch-period with the barman backup and
  barman recover commands.

• A new option --recovery-conf-filename is added to barman recover.
  This can be used to change the file to which Barman should write the
  PostgreSQL recovery options from the default postgresql.auto.conf
  to an alternative location.

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug which prevented barman-cloud-backup-show from
  displaying the backup metadata for backups made with
  barman backup and uploaded by barman-cloud-backup as a
  post-backup hook script.

• Fix a bug where the PostgreSQL connection used to validate backup
  compression settings was left open until termination of the
  Barman command.

• Fix an issue which caused rsync-concurrent backups to fail when
  running for a duration greater than idle_session_timeout.

• Fix a bug where the backup name was not saved in the backup
  metadata if the --wait flag was used with barman backup.

Acknowledgements

We thank the following who contributed to this release:

• barthisrael
• epolkerman
• hzetters
• mhkarimi1383
• mojtabash78