A solid maintenance release with some nice infrastructure cleanup and a few flags worth exploring.
Planned Postgres 18 Upgrade!
Heads up on Postgres: We're on the clock with Postgres 14—it hits EOL on November 12. We're planning the jump to Postgres 18 in 26.10.0 (October 15), so if you're running self-hosted, mark your calendar. The current release bumps us to postgres:14-trixie to handle some glibc changes; no action needed on your end, the migration script handles it.
Generic Metrics Infra Removal
We've removed the generic-metrics infrastructure that was feeding into the old Explore dashboard. This was doing the work of pulling "metrics" from span/trace attributes and computing them—solid cleanup that eliminates 3 Docker containers and reduces operational overhead. No user-facing impact here, just cleaner deployments.
We also removed process-segments Docker container, and merge it into Taskbroker. That's 4 Docker containers down total!
Regular dependencies bumps
The usual rounds of bumps. Most notable: ClickHouse to 25.8. It's a straightforward bump with no breaking schema changes or migrations required.
Experimental Features to Try
A few feature flags worth flipping if you want to poke around:
organizations:investigations— Organization investigation notebooks. Curious what this is about right?organizations:authv2-enable-toggle&organizations:authv2-rollout— New auth page from Evan Purkhiser. Still finding its footing, but feedback's welcome if you try it.organizations:ourlogs-regex-searches— Search Logs with regex patterns. Handy if you're doing complex filtering.
As always, we're in the Discord if you hit snags, have questions about the Postgres timeline, or just want to chat through your setup. We're always happy to help.
New Features ✨
- Remove organizations:incidents flag by @RudraPatel2003 in #4487
- Bump clickhouse to 25.8 by @aldy505 in #4483
Bug Fixes 🐛
- (install) Resolve geoip database paths relative to the repo, not cwd by @aguspatur22 in #4510
- Delete leftover kafka consumer group by @aldy505 in #4482
Documentation 📚
- Fix python version in CONTRIBUTING.md by @aminvakil in #4496
- Clarify policy on AI-assisted pull requests by @aminvakil in #4495
Internal Changes 🔧
Deps
- Use trixie version of postgres by @aminvakil in #4504
- Bump valkey/valkey from 8.1.9-alpine to 8.1.10-alpine by @dependabot in #4499
- Bump nginx from 1.31.4-alpine to 1.31.5-alpine by @dependabot in #4500
- Bump nginx from 1.31.3-alpine to 1.31.4-alpine by @dependabot in #4486
- Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 9.0.0 to 10.0.1 by @dependabot in #4476
- Bump confluentinc/cp-kafka from 7.6.6 to 7.6.13 by @dependabot in #4471
- Bump postgres from 14.23-bookworm to 14.24-bookworm by @dependabot in #4477