Postgres Enterprise Manager 9.4.0 release notes v9

Released: 16 Nov 2023

New features, enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes in PEM 9.4.0 include:

Deprecation

This release removes the support for API versions 7 and earlier. Index Advisor isn't supported for EDB Postgres Advanced Server and PostgreSQL version 11 and later.

Curl and libcurl vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-38545 is a heap buffer overflow in curl. To fully mitigate against exploitation of CVE-2023-38545, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE is set to 100KB by default.

TypeDescription
EnhancementAdded support for EDB Advanced Server, EDB Postgres Distributed, and PostgreSQL 16.
EnhancementPEM jobs can now be scheduled by way of the REST API.
EnhancementImproved the performance diagnostics to provide aggregated statistics over the time interval.
Bug fixAdded schema qualifications for the process_one_alert and get_detail_alert_info functions.
Bug fixAdded the optional ICU parameters required for creating databases in PostgreSQL versions 15 and 16.
Bug fixAdded the frontend validations for empty agent details while adding the Barman server.
Bug fixFixed an issue when downloading the system config report. The system config report didn't download if any agent had some missing parameter or was in an unknown state.
Bug fixAdded a server configuration parameter deleted_objects_data_retention_time to improve purging of the obsolete data for server, agent, or tools.