Supported releases

This page lists the status, timeline and policy for currently supported releases of CloudNativePG.

We support the latest two minor releases, and we aim to create a new minor release every two months. Each release is supported until the declared "End of Life" date in the table below, which considers an additional month of assistance to allow for upgrade planning.

Supported releases of CloudNativePG include releases that are in the active maintenance window and are patched for security and bug fixes.

Subsequent patch releases on a minor release do not contain backward incompatible changes.

Support policy

We produce new builds of CloudNativePG for each commit.

Roughly every two months, we build a minor release and run through several additional tests as well as release qualification. We release patch versions for issues found in minor releases.

The various types of releases represent a different product quality level and level of assistance from the CloudNativePG community. For details on the support provided by the community, please refer to the "What we mean by support" section below.

Type Support Level Quality and Recommended Use
Development Build No support Dangerous, may not be fully reliable. Useful to experiment with.
Minor Release Support provided until 1 month after the N+2 minor release (ex. 1.15 supported until 1 month after 1.17.0 is released)
Patch Same as the corresponding Minor release Users are encouraged to adopt patch releases as soon as they are available for a given release.
Security Patch Same as a Patch, however, it will not contain any additional code other than the security fix from the previous patch Given the nature of security fixes, users are strongly encouraged to adopt security patches after release.

You can find available releases on the releases page.

You can find high-level more information for each minor and patch release in the release notes.

Naming scheme

Our naming scheme is based on Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 as follows:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

where <minor> is increased for each release, and <patch> counts the number of patches for the current <minor> release. A patch is usually a small change relative to the <minor> release.

Git tags for versions are prepended with v.

Support status of CloudNativePG releases

Version Currently Supported Release Date End of Life Supported Kubernetes Versions Tested, but not supported Supported Postgres Versions
1.20.x Yes April 27, 2023 ~ September 28, 2023 1.24, 1.25, 1.26, 1.27 1.23 11 - 15
1.19.x Yes February 14, 2023 ~ July 15, 2023 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26 1.27 11 - 15
main No, development only 11 - 15

The list of supported Kubernetes versions in the above table depends on what the CloudNativePG maintainers think is reasonable to support and to test.

At the moment, the CloudNativePG community doesn't support nor test any additional Kubernetes distribution, like Red Hat OpenShift. This might change in the future and, in that case, that would be reflected in an official policy written by the CloudNativePG maintainers.

Supported PostgreSQL versions

The list of supported Postgres versions in the above table generally depends on what PostgreSQL versions were supported by the Community at the time the minor version of CloudNativePG was released.

Please refer to the PostgreSQL Versioning Policy page for more information about supported versions.

Info

Starting by November 10, 2022, Postgres 10 reached its final release and is no longer supported.

We also recommend that you regularly update your PostgreSQL operand images and use the latest minor release for the major version you have in use, as not upgrading is riskier than upgrading. As a result, when opening an issue with an older minor version of PostgreSQL, we might not be able to help you.

Upcoming releases

Version Release Date End of Life Supported Kubernetes Versions
1.21.0 June 27, 2023 - -
1.22.0 Aug 29, 2023 - -

Note

Feature freeze happens one week before the release

Important

Dates in the future are uncertain and might change. This applies to Kubernetes versions too. Updates and changes on the release schedule will be communicated in the "Release updates" discussion in the main GitHub repository.

Old releases

Version Release Date End of Life Compatible Kubernetes Versions
1.15.x April 21, 2022 October 6, 2022 1.21, 1.22, 1.23
1.16.x July 7, 2022 December 21, 2022 1.22, 1.23, 1.24
1.17.x September 6, 2022 March 20, 2023 1.22, 1.23, 1.24
1.18.x Nov 10, 2022 June 12, 2023 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26, 1.27

What we mean by support

Our support window is roughly five months for each release branch (latest two minor releases, plus an additional month), given that we produce a new final release every two months.

In the below diagram, release-1.16 is an example of a release branch.

For example, imagining that the latest release is v1.16.0, you can expect support for both v1.16.0 and v1.15.0.

Only the last patch release of each branch is supported.

------+---------------------------------------------> main (trunk development)
       \             \
        \             \
         \             \             v1.16.0
          \             \            Jul 7, 2022                    ^
           \             \----------+---------------> release-1.16  |
            \                                                       | SUPPORTED
             \                                                      | RELEASES
              \   v1.15.0                                           | = the two
               \  Apr 21, 2022                                      |   last
                +-------------------+---------------> release-1.15  |   releases
                                                                    v

We offer two types of support:

Technical support
Technical assistance is offered on a best-effort basis for supported releases only. You can request support from the community on the CloudNativePG Slack (in the #general channel), or using GitHub Discussions.
Security and bug fixes
We back-port important bug fixes — including security fixes - to all currently supported releases. Before back-porting a patch, we ask ourselves: "Does this back-port improve CloudNativePG, bearing in mind that we really value stability for already-released versions?"

If you are looking for professional support, please refer to the "Support" page in the website. The vendors listed there might provide service level agreements that included extended support timeframes.