# PostgreSQL 10 Released
-XX SEPTEMBER 2017 - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 10, the latest version of the world's leading open source database.
+XX SEPTEMBER 2017 - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 10, the latest version of the world's most advanced open source database.
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+A critical feature of modern workloads is the ability to distribute data across many nodes for faster access, management, and analysis, which is also known as a “divide and conquer” strategy. The PostgreSQL 10 release includes significant enhancements to effectively implement the divide and conquer strategy, including native logical replication, declarative table partitioning, and improved query parallelism.
-A critical feature of modern workloads is the ability to distribute data across many nodes for faster access, management, and analysis, which also known as a “divide and conquer” strategy. The PostgreSQL 10 release includes significant enhancements to effectively implement the divide and conquer strategy, including native logical replication, declarative table partitioning, and improved query parallelism.
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This release also marks the change of the versioning scheme for PostgreSQL to a "x.y" format. This means the next minor release of PostgreSQL will be 10.1 and the next major release will be 11.
## Logical Replication - A publish/subscribe framework for distributing data
-Logical replication extends the current replication features of PostgreSQL with the ability to send modifications on a per-database and per-table level to different PostgreSQL databases. Users can now fine-tune the data replicated to various database clusters as well as perform zero-downtime upgrades between major PostgreSQL versions.
+Logical replication extends the current replication features of PostgreSQL with the ability to send modifications on a per-database and per-table level to different PostgreSQL databases. Users can now fine-tune the data replicated to various database clusters as well as the ability perform zero-downtime upgrades between major PostgreSQL versions.
"We have been heavily using PostgreSQL since 9.3 and are very excited about version 10 since it brings basis for long-awaited partitioning and built-in logical replication. It will allow us to use PostgreSQL in even more services," said Vladimir Borodin, DBA Team Lead at [Yandex](https://www.yandex.com/).
## Quorum Commit for Synchronous Replication - Distribute data with confidence
-PostgreSQL 10 introduces quorum commit for synchronous replication, which allows for flexibility in how a primary database receives acknowledgement that changes were successfully written to remote replicas. An administrator can now specify that if any number of replicas has acknowledged that a change to the database has been made, then the data can be considered safely written to the replicas.
+PostgreSQL 10 introduces quorum commit for synchronous replication, which allows for flexibility in how a primary database receives acknowledgement that changes were successfully written to remote replicas. An administrator can now specify that if any number of replicas has acknowledged that a change to the database has been made, then the data can be considered safely written.
"Quorum commit for synchronous replication in PostgreSQL 10 gives more options to extend our ability to promote database infrastructure with nearly zero downtime from the application perspective. This allows us to continuously deploy and update our database infrastructure without incurring long maintenance windows." said Curt Micol, Staff Infrastructure Engineer at [Simple Finance](https://www.simple.com/).
## SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication - Secure your data access
-The SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication method is introduced in PostgreSQL 10 to provide better security than the existing md5 based password authentication method. The SCRAM family of algorithms provide a framework for strong password negotiation and storage and in the case of PostgreSQL 10, allows users to mitigate the risk of database access compromise when enabled.
+The Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) defined in [RFC5802](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5802) defines a protocol to improve upon the secure transmission of passwords by providing a framework for strong password negotiation and storage. PostgreSQL 10 introduces the SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication method, defined in [RFC7677](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7677), to provide better security than the existing md5 based password authentication method.
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