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Welkin PostgreSQL

Note

These are only the Application Developer facing changes.

v2.0.2-ck8s1

Released 2026-09-29

Features:

  • PostgreSQL 18 is now supported!
    • PostgreSQL 13 is no longer supported.

Changes:

  • PostgreSQL operator upgraded to v2.0.2.
  • Fixed a RBAC issue for PgBouncer replicas.

Default PostgreSQL versions:

  • 18.6
  • 17.11
  • 16.15
  • 15.19
  • 14.24

Extension versions (18)

  • plpgsql 1.0
  • set_user 4.2.0
  • pg_stat_statements 1.11
  • pg_statkcache 2.3.2
  • postgis 3.6.4
  • dblink 1.2
  • vector 0.8.6
  • btree_gin 1.3
  • pg_trgm 1.6
  • pg_auth_mon 1.1
  • TimescaleDB 2.30.1

v1.15.1-ck8s2

Released 2026-08-21

Security Notice(s)

This release addresses vulnerabilities with a severity of 8.8.

Default PostgreSQL versions:

  • 17.11
  • 16.15
  • 15.19
  • 14.24
  • 13.23

Features:

  • Custom PgBouncer configuration is now being backed up and able to be restored.

v1.15.1-ck8s1

Released 2026-07-20

Default PostgreSQL versions:

  • 17.10
  • 16.14
  • 15.18
  • 14.23
  • 13.23

Features:

  • PgBouncer can now connect to replicas for read-only queries.
  • Support for custom root of trust.
  • Archive support.

Changes:

  • PostgreSQL operator upgraded to v1.15.1
  • PgBouncer default settings reconfigured to prevent reaching max_connections on the PostgreSQL side
  • Added PDB to PgBouncer
  • Added CPU throttling alert
  • Added monitoring for PgBouncer

v1.14.0-ck8s1

Released 2025-06-25

Default PostgreSQL versions:

  • 17.5
  • 16.9
  • 15.13
  • 14.18
  • 13.21

Features:

  • PgBouncer is now available as part of the Managed Service. See this page for more details.
  • PostgreSQL version 17 is now available.
  • New "developer" role is available, granting users/groups RBAC to port-forward to the PostgreSQL Cluster without having access to the Secret containing admin credentials.

Changes:

  • TimescaleDB version bumped to 2.20.3

v1.12.2-ck8s2

Released 2025-04-23

Default PostgreSQL versions:

  • 16.5
  • 15.9
  • 14.14
  • 13.17

Changes:

  • Spilo image version bumped to spilo-16:3.3-p1-24-11-18

v1.12.2-ck8s1

Released 2024-09-25

Default PostgreSQL versions:

  • 16.4
  • 15.8
  • 14.13
  • 13.16

Changes:

  • TimescaleDB version bumped to 2.14.2
  • pgvector version bumped to 0.7.4

v1.8.2-ck8s1

Released 2022-08-24

Changes:

  • Upgraded postgres-operator to version v1.8.2
  • Added a service which allows users to port-forward to the service instead of directly to Pods

v1.7.1-ck8s2

Released 2022-04-26

Changes:

  • Fixed a vulnerability with logical backups

v1.7.1-ck8s1

Released 2021-12-21

First stable release!