Release notes v2.0.0

History of user-visible changes for EDB Postgres® AI for CloudNativePG™ Global Cluster.

Version 2.0.0

Release date: 26 March 2026

This is the first major stable release of EDB Postgres® AI for CloudNativePG™ Global Cluster, a Kubernetes operator to deploy and manage EDB Postgres Distributed versions 6.x clusters.

The operator continues to implement the PGDGroup custom resource in the API group pgd.k8s.enterprisedb.io. This resource can be used to create and manage EDB Postgres Distributed versions 6.x clusters inside Kubernetes. The additional features and improvements included in this release are listed below.

Features:

• Deployment of EDB Postgres Distributed clusters with versions 6.x and later
• Connection Manager support for PGD versions 6.x (#1187) (#1163) (#1930)
• Support for upgrading from PGD 5 to PGD 6 (#1538)
• Default monitoring support with predefined set of metrics (#1923) (#1934)
• Support for showing parent group UUID in status and labels for better PGD cluster management and monitoring (#1894)
• Global routing support for PGD versions 6.x (#1886) (#1803)
• Managed role and managed application user support for PGD versions 6.x (#1248) (#1432) (#1435)
• Replaced nodeMaintenanceWindow with enablePGD in PG4K cluster (#1910)
• Enhanced the pgdgroupcleanup phase (#1617)
• Support for declarative way to depart a PGDGroup node (#1323)
• Support for configuring initDB options (#1302)
• Support for barman cloud plugin for backup and restore (#1068)
• Support for custom postgresUID and postgresGID for PGD nodes (#1974)

Changes:

• Update the default PGD image to PostgreSQL 18.3 and PGD 6.2.0 expanded (image postgresql-pgd:18.3-pgd620-expanded-ubi9)
• The tested PG4K version is v1.28.1

Fixes:

• Start physical join if CNP cluster is hibernated but failed to set phase (#1906)
• Use remote database connection string to do the physical join (#1659)
• Cleanup the stale recovery settings in postgresql.auto.conf after physical join (#2115)
• Wait for local partition to be created before calling bdr.create_node_group
• Increase max_active_replication_origins to 30 for PostgreSQL 18 to support more replication slots for PGD v6

Supported Versions:

• Kubernetes: 1.33, 1.34, and 1.35
• PostgreSQL: 18, 17, 16, 15, and 14