EDB Postgres for Kubernetes 1.5.0 release notes v1
This release of EDB Postgres for Kubernetes includes the following:
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | Introduce the pg_basebackup bootstrap method to create a new PostgreSQL cluster as a copy of an existing PostgreSQL instance of the same major version, even outside Kubernetes. |
| Feature | Add support for Kubernetes’ tolerations in the Affinity section of the Cluster resource, allowing users to distribute PostgreSQL instances on Kubernetes nodes with the required taint. |
| Feature | Enable specification of a digest to an image name, through the <image>:<tag>@sha256:<digestValue> format, for more deterministic and repeatable deployments. |
| Security fix | Customize TLS certificates to authenticate the PostgreSQL server by defining secrets for the server certificate and the related Certification Authority that signed it. |
| Security fix | Raise the sslmode for the WAL receiver process of internal and automatically managed streaming replicas from require to verify-ca. |
| Change | Enhance the promote subcommand of the cnp plugin for kubectl to accept just the node number rather than the whole name of the pod. |
| Change | Adopt DNS-1035 validation scheme for cluster names (from which service names are inherited). |
| Change | Enforce streaming replication connection when cloning a standby instance or when bootstrapping using the pg_basebackup method. |
| Change | Integrate the Backup resource with beginWal, endWal, beginLSN, endLSN, startedAt and stoppedAt regarding the physical base backup. |
| Documentation fix | Provide a list of ports exposed by the operator and the operand container. |
| Documentation fix | Introduce the cnp-bench helm charts and guidelines for benchmarking the storage and PostgreSQL for database workloads. |
| E2E test fix | Test Kubernetes 1.21. |
| E2E test fix | Add test for High Availability of the operator. |
| E2E test fix | Add test for node draining. |
| Bug fix | Timeout to pg_ctl start during recovery operations too short. |
| Bug fix | Operator not watching over direct events on PVCs. |
| Bug fix | Fix handling of immediateCheckpoint and jobs parameter in barmanObjectStore backups. |
| Bug fix | Empty logs when recovering from a backup. |