Schedule for PG 18 RC and GA releases
The release team has agreed that we should put out 18rc1 next
week (wrap 9/1, announce 9/4).
If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).
regards, tom lane
On 8/26/25 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
The release team has agreed that we should put out 18rc1 next
week (wrap 9/1, announce 9/4).If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).
Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go
or a no-go for 9/25?
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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
On 8/26/25 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).
Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go
or a no-go for 9/25?
AFAIK we're still go for next week.
regards, tom lane
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go
or a no-go for 9/25?AFAIK we're still go for next week.
I don't understand why we're always doing the list of major features
at the absolute last possible moment. I really think that should have
been done a month ago, if not several months, so that we could have
appropriate time for bike-shedding before it goes into the tree and
for messaging after it goes into the tree. Now we're sitting here with
a placeholder in the documentation when we're supposed to wrap in 5
days, and 2 of those are weekend days.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
On 9/17/25 11:23, Tom Lane wrote:
Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
On 8/26/25 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go
or a no-go for 9/25?AFAIK we're still go for next week.
Sounds good. I am still available for the usual sysadmin bits on release
day.
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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 11:33:52AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
I don't understand why we're always doing the list of major features
at the absolute last possible moment. I really think that should have
been done a month ago, if not several months, so that we could have
appropriate time for bike-shedding before it goes into the tree and
for messaging after it goes into the tree. Now we're sitting here with
a placeholder in the documentation when we're supposed to wrap in 5
days, and 2 of those are weekend days.
Agreed.
FWIW I posted a draft elsewhere [0]/messages/by-id/aLO7Wv1tYUd17ZkA@nathan, but I believe Jonathan intends to
propose something, too [1]/messages/by-id/6F09EBB5-7470-4B48-B4D5-7276D11CC77A@postgresql.org. It looks like progress is being made on the
acknowledgments section as well [2]/messages/by-id/flat/a49a9219-844e-489c-8f20-0d424545b6d8@eisentraut.org. Please let me know if there's
anything else I can do to help.
[0]: /messages/by-id/aLO7Wv1tYUd17ZkA@nathan
[1]: /messages/by-id/6F09EBB5-7470-4B48-B4D5-7276D11CC77A@postgresql.org
[2]: /messages/by-id/flat/a49a9219-844e-489c-8f20-0d424545b6d8@eisentraut.org
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nathan