Life with Open Source

commit   : 0f3b42ce806a1ed5a5bf9cbe23b9e3fc1bac9095    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:44:07 +0200    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:44:07 +0200    

These checks compile headers, so all the headers they might include  
need to have been generated.  The makefile target does that, but the  
meson implementation didn't do that.  (Arguably a bit of a bug in  
commit e82fc27e095.)  Add the required dependencies so that meson  
compile headerscheck works in an unbuilt tree as well (as is  
documented).  
  
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e52e2c29-4834-4c64-a200-eddcba38fb4d%40eisentraut.org  

commit   : 16dd90902366c0404616dc43b170c94b064d0caf    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:43:01 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:43:01 +1300    

AllocSet contexts with different maxBlockSize values can have the same  
freeListIndex.  When reusing a context from one of the context_freelists,  
we updated maxBlockSize, but we failed to adjust allocChunkLimit, even  
though that ordinarily depends on maxBlockSize.  This could result in  
some allocations being put on an external block when they shouldn't have  
been, resulting in excessive malloc() calls, or if the allocChunkLimit was  
left set higher than it should be, allocations could have resulted in  
memory not being free()'d after pfree() due to the chunk having been put  
on a multi-chunk block (these would still later be cleaned up when the  
context is reset, so no memory leaks).  
  
The repercussions of this are only inefficient use of memory and perhaps  
some performance instability depending on which context happened to be  
top of the freelist when a new AllocSet context was created.  
  
To fix, we move the allocChunkLimit calculation code into a helper  
function and call that to reset the allocChunkLimit when reusing a  
context.  
  
Author: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Donghang Lin <donghanglin@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1D54961E-6BEF-411A-BFAD-610C3B18D7E7@gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 2e1c4f2ba727c45a0a23d4b326905088dc15b1a1    
  
author   : David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:31:33 +0200    
  
committer: David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:31:33 +0200    

IMPORTANT NOTE: The restore command will now error and stop if any restored file contains an invalid page checksum, which leaves the cluster incomplete and unable to start, so the restore must be rerun. The expire command will now refuse to expire if the oldest retained backup would contain checksum errors, which also prevents archive from being expired in that repository. Set checksum-page-error=n to warn instead of erroring.  
  
Features:  
  
* Add checksum-page-error option to error on invalid page checksums. (Contributed by Andrew Pogrebnoi. Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley, David Steele, Greg Sabino Mullane, Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Greg Sabino Mullane.)  
* Support for GCS Workload Identity Federation. (Contributed by Adol Rodriguez. Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley, David Steele.)  
* Prefetch multi-file/range reads from object stores. (Reviewed by Andrew Pogrebnoi, Douglas J Hunley.)  
  
Improvements:  
  
* Reduce keep-alive requests to remote processes. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Retry Azure batch sub-requests missing from the response. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Reduce the manifest checks made when reconstructing backup.info. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley. Suggested by todeb.)  
* Use original size to determine if a file should be bundled. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Add context to block map read errors during backup. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Cast current_timestamp to text in the backup start label. (Contributed by Tiago Corcelli de Oliveira. Reviewed by David Steele.)  
* Support building on illumos. (Contributed by Kalevi Kolttonen. Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley, David Steele.)  
* Support OpenSSL 4. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Fix clang builds. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Migrate code generation from C to Python.  
  
Documentation Improvements:  
  
* Modernize the website. Special thanks to Jan for the insightful (and hilarious) logo. (Contributed by David Steele, Jan Wieremjewicz. Reviewed by Steve Atkins, Kai Wagner, Douglas J Hunley, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Matt Hudson, Stefan Fercot.)  
* Document the release schedule.  
* Migrate the documentation tools from C and Perl to Python.  
  
Test Suite Improvements:  
  
* Migrate the test harness from C and Perl to Python.  
* Add a Fil-C job to CI.  
* Add fuzz testing for the JSON, Ini, and Pack readers.  
* Allow test user names that adduser on Debian rejects. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)  

commit   : 46cdca625a73403cad4774d97354a1fac1e91e51    
  
author   : David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2026 09:29:49 +0200    
  
committer: David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2026 09:29:49 +0200    

IMPORTANT NOTE: In prior versions it was possible for weak encryption subkeys and salts to be generated if there was an error accessing system random data.  
  
Bug Fixes:  
  
* Fix possible checksum error loading encrypted info and manifest files. (Fixed by j0uinim. Reviewed by David Steele.)  
* Fix possible weak encryption subkeys/salts. (Fixed by j0uinim. Reviewed by David Steele, Stefan Fercot, Douglas J Hunley.)  

commit   : d5138e2e3b92fe806505bc8b9c69f36bd70cea18    
  
author   : David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:15:45 +0300    
  
committer: David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:15:45 +0300    

Bug Fixes:  
  
* Fix empty block map when file is truncated to zero during backup. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley. Reported by JPCOSTA78.)  
* Disable read retry when filters are passed to the driver. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley. Reported by megamaced.)  
* Fix pagination of S3 version listing. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley, guruguruguru. Reported by guruguruguru.)  
* Set the Azure version header for SAS authentication. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley. Reported by Florian Helmberger.)  
* Fix async archive-push stalling on a zero-size backup history file. (Fixed by Andrew Kroh. Reviewed by David Steele, Douglas J Hunley.)  
* Fix annotate command on a remote encrypted repository. (Fixed by Douglas J Hunley. Reviewed by David Steele.)  
  
Features:  
  
* PostgreSQL 19beta4 support.  

commit   : 8c8f3ee63e310f0b3ea10b55ed3b96b4cc9296da    
  
author   : David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:08:40 +0700    
  
committer: David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>    
date     : Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:08:40 +0700    

Bug Fixes:  
  
* Fix hang when the chunk buffer is smaller than the input buffer. (Reviewed by Andrew Pogrebnoi, Douglas J Hunley. Reported by crajac66.)  
* Compare a new backup label only against its own full backup set. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley. Reported by Anton Glushakov.)  
* Fix source archives generated by GitHub missing files required to build. (Reported by aardvarkzed.)  
  
Features:  
  
* PostgreSQL 19beta3 support. (Contributed by Lardière Sébastien. Reviewed by David Steele.)  
  
Documentation Improvements:  
  
* Document exception for dots in S3 bucket names when repo-s3-uri-style=path.  
* Remove explicit hot_standby configuration from user guide.  

commit   : 724edf9bde9d356724ad384a2e196edc3c9f80f7    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:38:31 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:38:31 -0400    

commit   : 841d0cb0f9b8b1b25e7b299ac0eb134074b45a08    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:37:01 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:37:01 -0400    

commit   : 6b3806732b7c5df06bdd0ed150e8a07b4ad62315    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:59:18 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:59:18 -0400    

commit   : 18ec528b8c3804f4c101e3a8d091ada7c5a40bb4    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:49 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:49 -0400    

commit   : 2ff1375b5dd8bf09d8cb0e795974528180fd75ca    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:57:41 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:57:41 -0400    

commit   : 492b517f362a4325bbcd6c1aa6f1204b7696d7ed    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:48 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:48 -0400    

commit   : 7d3e000c5961a544302072058a1184e9a588837b    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:56:00 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:56:00 -0400    

commit   : a5c8e521cf9e2d2334cf3c94ed64edb397b00e01    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:48 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:35:48 -0400