Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.4.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.4 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is updated to 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.4.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.4 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is updated to 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.4.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.4 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is updated to 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.2.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.2 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is updated to 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23.
• PL/Tcl is now included in the PostGIS (crunchy-postgres-gis-ha) container.

Changes

• The pgbackrest_info.sh script (as utilized for pgMonitor integration) is now included in the base PostgreSQL container (crunchy-postgres)

Fixes

• Sensitive pgBackRest configuration is now hidden when pgBackRest configuration is logged during startup of the crunchy-postgres container

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.2 on August 17, 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.2 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is updated to 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23.
• PL/Tcl is now included in the PostGIS (crunchy-postgres-gis-ha) container.

Changes

• The pgbackrest_info.sh script (as utilized for pgMonitor integration) is now included in the base PostgreSQL container (crunchy-postgres)

Fixes

• Sensitive pgBackRest configuration is now hidden when pgBackRest configuration is logged during startup of the crunchy-postgres container

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.1 on July 29, 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.1 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• Patroni is now at version 2.1.0.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.3 on June 3, 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.3 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is updated to 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22.
• Patroni is now at version 2.0.2.
• pgBouncer for CentOS 8 / UBI 8 is rebuilt to use the libc for its async DNS backend.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.3 on May 25, 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.3 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is now at 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22.
• pgMonitor is now at 4.4-1.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.0 on May 17, 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PGO, the Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.0 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is now at 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22.
• PostGIS 3.1 is now available.
• pgBackRest is now at version 2.33.
• pgMonitor is now at 4.5.0. Grafana 7.4 is now required for visualizing the exported metrics.
• Patroni is now at version 2.0.2.
• pgBouncer for CentOS 8 / UBI 8 is rebuilt to use the evdns for its async DNS backend.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.7.0 introduces the following software components:

• pg_partman 4.5.0, a PostgreSQL extension used for partition management.
• pg_cron 1.3.0, a scheduling extension for PostgreSQL.
• TimescaleDB 2.2.0, an open-source database designed to make SQL scalable for time-series data. Timescale, Inc. the company behind TimescaleDB, provides an Apache licensed "community edition" of TimescaleDB that is packaged as a Postgres extension that provides automated partitioning across time and space (partitioning key).

Additionally, the UBI 8 builds for PGO and its components now use the ubi8-minimal container as a base.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.2 on March 22, 2021.

The PostgreSQL Operator is released in conjunction with the Crunchy Postgres Operator.

The Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.2 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• Patroni is now at version 2.0.2.
• pgBouncer for CentOS 8 / UBI 8 is rebuilt to use the libc for its async DNS backend.

The Crunchy Container Suite is tested against Kubernetes 1.17 - 1.20, OpenShift 3.11, OpenShift 4.4+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+, and works on other Kubernetes distributions as well.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.1 on February 18, 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator

Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.1 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is now at versions 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21.

The Crunchy Container Suite is tested against Kubernetes 1.17 - 1.20, OpenShift 3.11, OpenShift 4.4+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+, and works on other Kubernetes distributions as well.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.0 on January 22, 2020.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.6.0 continues to improve on features that aid high availability PostgreSQL deployments when deployed by the PostgreSQL Operator.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator. For a full list of features, please see the PostgreSQL Operator release notes.

This release of the Crunchy Container Suite drops support for PostgreSQL 9.5, which goes EOL in February 2021.

The Crunchy Container Suite is tested against Kubernetes 1.17 - 1.20, OpenShift 3.11, OpenShift 4.4+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+, and works on other Kubernetes distributions as well.

Version Updates

This release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• pgBackRest is now at version 2.31
• pgnodemx is now at version 1.0.3
• Patroni is now at version 2.0.1
• pgBadger is now at 11.4

Changes

Advances in Postgres Operator functionality have allowed for a culling of the number of required container images. For example, functionality that had been broken out into individual container images (e.g. crunchy-pgdump) is now consolidated within the crunchy-postgres and crunchy-postgres-ha containers.

Renamed container images include:

• pgo-backrest => crunchy-pgbackrest
• pgo-backrest-repo => crunchy-pgbackrest-repo

Removed container images include:

• crunchy-admin
• crunchy-backrest-restore
• crunchy-backup
• crunchy-pgbasebackup-restore
• crunchy-pgbench
• crunchy-pgdump
• crunchy-pgrestore

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.4.2 on November 25, 2020.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator

PostgreSQL Operator 4.4.2 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is now at versions 12.5, 11.10, 10.15, 9.6.20, and 9.5.24.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.3.4 on November 23, 2020.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator

PostgreSQL Operator 4.3.4 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is now at versions 12.5, 11.10, 10.15, 9.6.20, and 9.5.24.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.1 on November 12, 2020.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator

PostgreSQL Operator 4.5.1 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• PostgreSQL is now at versions 13.1, 12.5, 11.10, 10.15, 9.6.20, and 9.5.24.
• Patroni is now at version 2.0.1.
• PL/Perl can now be used in the PostGIS-enabled containers. Suggested by Denish Patel (@denishpatel).

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.0 on October 2, 2020.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.5.0 continues to improve on features that aid high availability PostgreSQL deployments when deployed by the PostgreSQL Operator.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator. For a full list of features, please see the PostgreSQL Operator release notes.

Additionally, the Crunchy Container Suite introduces support for the CentOS 8 and UBI 8 base container images. In addition to using the newer operating systems, this enables support for TLS 1.3 when connecting to PostgreSQL.

This release also moves to building the containers to using Buildah 1.14.9 for the UBI 8 containers, and version 1.11.6 for the CentOS 7 & CentOS 8 & UBI 7 containers.

The Crunchy Container Suite is tested with Docker 1.13+, Kubernetes 1.15 - 1.19, OpenShift 3.11+, OpenShift 4.4+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+.

Version Updates

release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• Add support for PostgreSQL 13.
• pgBackRest is now at version 2.29.
• postgres_exporter is now at version 0.8.0
• pgMonitor support is now at 4.4
• pgnodemx is now at version 1.0.1
• wal2json is now at version 2.3
• Patroni is now at version 2.0.0

Changes

• The crunchy-collect container is removed and is superseded by crunchy-postgres-exporter in the PostgreSQL Operator project.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.4.1 on August 18, 2020.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator.

The PostgreSQL Operator 4.4.1 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• The PostgreSQL containers now use versions 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, and 9.5.23

PostgreSQL Operator is tested with Kubernetes 1.13 - 1.18, OpenShift 3.11+, OpenShift 4.3+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.3.3 on August 18, 2020.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator.

The PostgreSQL Operator 4.3.3 release includes the following software versions upgrades:

• The PostgreSQL containers now use versions 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, and 9.5.23
• pgBouncer is now at version 1.14.

PostgreSQL Operator is tested with Kubernetes 1.13 - 1.18, OpenShift 3.11+, OpenShift 4.3+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+.

Changes

• Remove dependency on the expenv binary that was included in the PostgreSQL Operator release. All expenv calls were either replaced with the native envsubst program or removed.

Fixes

• Ensure WAL archives are pushed to all repositories when pgBackRest is set to use both a local and a S3-based repository
• Eliminate gcc from the postgres-ha and pgadmin4 containers.

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.4.0 on July 17, 2020.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.4.0 continues to improve on features that aid high availability PostgreSQL deployments when deployed by the PostgreSQL Operator.

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator. For a full list of features, please see the PostgreSQL Operator release notes.

To build the Crunchy Container Suite 4.4.0, you will need to utilize buildah version 1.9.0 and above.

The Crunchy Container Suite is tested with Docker 1.13+, Kubernetes 1.15-1.18, OpenShift 3.11+, OpenShift 4.4+, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+.

Version Updates

• PostGIS 3.0 is now supported. There is now a manual upgrade path between PostGIS containers.
• pgRouting is now included in the PostGIS containers.
• pgBackRest is now at version 2.27.
• pgBouncer is now at version 1.14.

Fixes

• gcc is no longer provided in the crunchy-postgres-ha and associated containers

Crunchy Data announces the release of the Crunchy Container Suite 4.3.1 on May, 22, 2020.

Crunchy Container Suite 4.3.1 release includes bug fixes reported since the release of version 4.3.0 of the Crunchy Container Suite.

This release includes updates for several packages supported by the PostgreSQL Operator, including:

• The PostgreSQL containers now use versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22

The Crunchy Container Suite is released in conjunction with the PostgreSQL Operator.

The Crunchy Container Suite is tested with Docker 1.13+, Kubernetes 1.12+, OpenShift 3.11+, and VMware Enterprise PKS 1.3+.