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We're excited to announce the June 2026 version of Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Beginning June 5, 2026, the service automatically onboards all new servers to this latest version. The service upgrades existing servers during their next scheduled maintenance.
This new version introduces a range of new features and enhancements, resolves known issues, and includes essential security patches to ensure optimal performance and security.
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The following released version, date, and content only correspond to the actual deployment of the Microsoft Azure Clouds.
It provides the evolution history of Azure Database for PostgreSQL service on Azure Public Cloud in most cases.
Please note that in some cases, it may not be consistent with the actual deployment of Azure operated by 21Vianet.
Engine version changes
- Latest minor versions updated for Azure Database for PostgreSQL: 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23
Features
- Major Version Upgrade support for PG18 released worldwide
- Added Major Version Upgrade support to PostgreSQL 17 and PostgreSQL 18 for customers using ephemeral tablespaces.
- Onboarded temporal_tables extension
- Added support for DROP CAST
Improvements
- Major Version Upgrade - Improved upgrade reliability for DBs with a high number of large objects (LOs), reducing the risk of upgrade failures due to memory pressure.
- Improved failover and scale operation reliability by reducing vCore gateway switchover time from up to 5 minutes to less than 1 minute, helping minimize customer downtime.
Known issues fix
- No known issue fixes