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<p>
<strong>
- 2024-05-09 -
- <a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">
- PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19 Released!
+ 2024-05-23 -
+ <a href="/about/news/postgresql-17-beta-1-released-2865/">
+ PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 Released!
</a>
</strong>
</p>
<p>
- The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has
- <a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">released an update</a>
- to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including
- <a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19</a>.
- This release fixes one <a href="/support/security/">security vulnerability</a>
- and over 55 bugs reported over the last several months.
+ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first
+ beta release of PostgreSQL 17 is now <a href="/download/">available for download</a>.
+ This release contains previews of all features that will be available
+ when PostgreSQL 17 is made generally available, though some details of
+ the release can change during the beta period.
</p>
<p>
- Please note that the fix in this release for
- <a href="/support/security/CVE-2024-4317/">CVE-2024-4317</a>
- only fixes fresh PostgreSQL installations, namely those that are
- created with the <a href="/docs/current/app-initdb.html"><code>initdb</code></a>
- utility after this fix is applied. If you have a current PostgreSQL
- installation and are concerned about this issue, please follow the
- additional updating instructions provided in the
- <a href="/support/security/CVE-2024-4317/">CVE-2024-4317</a> description
- or the <a href="/docs/release/">release notes</a> for the remediation.
+ You can find information about all of the PostgreSQL 17 features and
+ changes in the <a href="/docs/17/release-17.html">release notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In the spirit of the open source PostgreSQL community, we strongly
+ encourage you to test the new features of PostgreSQL 17 on your
+ systems to help us eliminate bugs or other issues that may exist.
+ While we do not advise you to run PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 in production
+ environments, we encourage you to find ways to run your typical
+ application workloads against this beta release.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Your testing and feedback will help the community ensure that the
+ PostgreSQL 17 release upholds our standards of delivering a stable,
+ reliable release of the world's most advanced open source relational
+ database. Please read more about our <a href="/developer/beta/">beta testing process</a>
+ and how you can contribute.
</p>
<p>
PostgreSQL 12 will <a href="/support/versioning/"></a>stop receiving fixes</a>
<a href="/support/versioning/"></a>versioning policy</a> for more
information.
</p>
- <p>
- For the more information about this release, please review the
- <a href="/docs/release/">release notes</a>. You can download
- PostgreSQL from the <a href="/download/">download</a> page.
- </p>
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- <a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">
- PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19 Released!
+ <a href="/about/news/postgresql-17-beta-1-released-2865/">
+ PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 Released!
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<p>
- The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has
- <a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">released an update</a>
- to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including
- <a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19</a>.
- This release fixes one <a href="/support/security/">security vulnerability</a>
- and over 55 bugs reported over the last several months.
+ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first
+ beta release of PostgreSQL 17 is now <a href="/download/">available for download</a>.
+ This release contains previews of all features that will be available
+ when PostgreSQL 17 is made generally available, though some details of
+ the release can change during the beta period.
</p>
<p>
- Please note that the fix in this release for
- <a href="/support/security/CVE-2024-4317/">CVE-2024-4317</a>
- only fixes fresh PostgreSQL installations, namely those that are
- created with the <a href="/docs/current/app-initdb.html"><code>initdb</code></a>
- utility after this fix is applied. If you have a current PostgreSQL
- installation and are concerned about this issue, please follow the
- additional updating instructions provided in the
- <a href="/support/security/CVE-2024-4317/">CVE-2024-4317</a> description
- or the <a href="/docs/release/">release notes</a> for the remediation.
+ You can find information about all of the PostgreSQL 17 features and
+ changes in the <a href="/docs/17/release-17.html">release notes</a>.
</p>
<p>
- PostgreSQL 12 will <a href="/support/versioning/"></a>stop receiving fixes</a>
- on November 14, 2024. If you are running PostgreSQL 12 in a
- production environment, we suggest that you make plans to upgrade to a
- newer, supported version of PostgreSQL. Please see our
- <a href="/support/versioning/"></a>versioning policy</a> for more
- information.
+ In the spirit of the open source PostgreSQL community, we strongly
+ encourage you to test the new features of PostgreSQL 17 on your
+ systems to help us eliminate bugs or other issues that may exist.
+ While we do not advise you to run PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 in production
+ environments, we encourage you to find ways to run your typical
+ application workloads against this beta release.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Your testing and feedback will help the community ensure that the
+ PostgreSQL 17 release upholds our standards of delivering a stable,
+ reliable release of the world's most advanced open source relational
+ database. Please read more about our <a href="/developer/beta/">beta testing process</a>
+ and how you can contribute.
</p>
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- <li><a href="/about/news/postgresql-163-157-1412-1315-and-1219-released-2858/">Release Announcement</a></li>
- <li><a href="/docs/release/">Release Notes</a></li>
- <li><a href="/about/press/">PostgreSQL 16 Release Announcement & Translations</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/about/news/postgresql-17-beta-1-released-2865/">Release Announcement</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/docs/17/release-17.html">Release Notes</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/developer/beta/">Beta Testing Information</a></li>
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<li><a href="/download/">Download</a></li>
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