to all supported versions of the PostgreSQL database system, which
includes minor versions 9.3.2, 9.2.6, 9.1.11, 9.0.15, and 8.4.19. This
update fixes three serious data-loss bugs affecting replication and
database maintenance. All users are urged to update their
installations at the earliest opportunity.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1492/
Note that users of the hstore extension on version 9.3 must take an additional,
post upgrade step of running "ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE" in each database
after update.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1487/
This update fixes a denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerability. All users
should update their PostgreSQL installations as soon as possible.
The security issue fixed in this release, CVE-2013-0255, allows a
previously authenticated user to crash the server by calling
an internal function with invalid arguments.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1446/
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0255
versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.2.2, 9.1.7,
9.0.11, 8.4.15, and 8.3.22. Users of PostgreSQL Hot Standby replication
should update at the next possible opportunity. Other users should update
at their next maintenance window.
Deprecate the 8.3.22 version, since it is near end-of-life.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1430/
Feature safe: yes
This update fixes critical issues for major versions 9.1 and 9.2, and
users running those versions should apply it as soon as possible.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1416/
"PostgreSQL 9.2 will ship with native JSON support,
covering indexes, replication and performance improvements,
and many more features."
Read more at the web site.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1415/
of PostgreSQL 9.2, which will include major increases in performance and
both vertical and horizontal scalability. The PostgreSQL Project asks
all users to download and begin testing 9.2 beta 3 as soon as possible.
9.2 Beta 3 includes multiple bug fixes to earlier beta releases, fixing
almost all known outstanding issues as of last week. Among them are:
* Multiple documentation updates
* Apply translation updates
* Fixes to transaction log and replication issues with SP-GiST
* Replace libpq's "row processor" API with a "single row" mode.
* Fix WITH issue with set operations (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
* Improvements to Autovacuum cancellation
* Multiple pg_upgrade fixes
* Fix memory leak in pg_recievexlog
* Restore statistics collection broken by change to bgwriter
* Prevent corner-case coredump with rfree().
If you previously tested 9.2 beta and found one or more bugs, please
test 9.2 beta 3 and make sure that those issues are resolved. If you
haven't yet tested 9.2, please help out the PostgreSQL project by
testing it now!
More information on how to test and report issues:
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta
active branches of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.4,
9.0.8, 8.4.12 and 8.3.19.
Users of the crypt(text, text) function with DES encryption in the optional
pg_crypto module should upgrade their installations immediately, if you have'nt
already updated since the port was patched on May 30. All other database
administrators are urged to upgrade your version of PostgreSQL at the
next scheduled downtime.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2143
Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcryptoâs DES crypt() function
This was fixed in a patch release for the FreeBSD ports on May 30.
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2655
Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a procedural languageâs call handle
PostgreSQL 9.2, which will include major increases in performance and
both vertical and horizontal scalability. The PostgreSQL Project asks
all users to download and begin testing 9.2 Beta as soon as possible.
Major performance and scalability advances in this version include:
* Index-only scans, allowing users to avoid inefficient scans of base
tables
* Enhanced read-only workload scaling to 64 cores and over 300,000
queries per second
* Improvements to data write speeds, including group commit
* Reductions in CPU power consumption
* Cascading replication, supporting geographically distributed standby
databases
PostgreSQL 9.2 will also offer many new features for application
developers, including:
* JSON data support, enabling hybrid document-relational databases
* Range types, supporting new types of calendar, time-series and
* analytic applications
* Multiple improvements to ALTER and other statements, easing runtime
* database updates
For a full listing of the features in version 9.2 Beta, please see the
release notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-2.html
We depend on our community to help test the next version in order to
guarantee that it is high-performance and bug-free. Please install
PostgreSQL 9.2 Beta and try it with your workloads and applications as
soon as you can, and give feedback to the PostgreSQL developers. More
information on how to test and report issues:
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta
Apologies for the noise here; I'm getting used to the consequences of
slaving ports like this-- postgresql has an unusual arrangement here.
Submitted by: Neil Darlow (neil@darlow.co.uk)
