<div class="text">
<p>
<strong>
- 2019-09-26 - PostgreSQL 12 RC 1 Released!
+ 2019-10-03 - PostgreSQL 12 Released!
</strong>
</p>
<p>
- The PostgreSQL Global Development Group <a href="/about/news/1975/">announces</a>
- that the <a href="/about/news/1975/">first release candidate</a> of
- <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12</a>
- is now available for <a href="/download/">download</a>. As a release
- candidate, PostgreSQL 12 RC 1 should be identical to the initial release of
- <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12</a>, though some more
- fixes may be applied prior to the general availability of PostgreSQL 12.
+ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of
+ <a href="/about/news/1976/">PostgreSQL 12</a>, the latest version of
+ the world's <a href="/">most advanced open source database</a>.
</p>
<p>
- The planned date for the general availability of PostgreSQL 12 is October 3,
- 2019.
+ <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12 enhancements</a>
+ include notable improvements to query
+ performance, particularly over larger data sets, and overall space
+ utilization. This release provides application developers with new
+ capabilities such as
+ <a href="/docs/current/functions-json.html#FUNCTIONS-SQLJSON-PATH">SQL/JSON path expression</a>
+ support, optimizations for how common table expression (<code>WITH</code>)
+ queries are executed, and <a href="/docs/current/ddl-generated-columns.html">generated columns</a>.
</p>
<p>
- You can
- <a href="/download/">download</a> the release candidate <a href="/download/">here</a>.
+ The PostgreSQL community continues to support the extensibility and
+ robustness of PostgreSQL, with further additions to
+ internationalization, authentication, and providing easier ways to
+ administrate PostgreSQL. This release also introduces the
+ <a href="/docs/current/tableam.html">pluggable table storage interface</a>,
+ which allows developers to create their own methods for storing data.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For more information, please see the
+ <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">release notes</a>.
+ <a href="/download/">Download PostgreSQL 12 here</a>.
</p>
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<p>
- The PostgreSQL Global Development Group <a href="/about/news/1975/">announces</a>
- that the <a href="/about/news/1975/">first release candidate</a> of
- <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12</a>
- is now available for <a href="/download/">download</a>. As a release
- candidate, PostgreSQL 12 RC 1 should be identical to the initial release of
- <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12</a>, though some more
- fixes may be applied prior to the general availability of PostgreSQL 12.
+ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of
+ <a href="/about/news/1976/">PostgreSQL 12</a>, the latest version of
+ the world's <a href="/">most advanced open source database</a>.
</p>
<p>
- The planned date for the general availability of PostgreSQL 12 is October 3,
- 2019.
+ <a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12 enhancements</a>
+ include notable improvements to query
+ performance, particularly over larger data sets, and overall space
+ utilization. This release provides application developers with new
+ capabilities such as
+ <a href="/docs/current/functions-json.html#FUNCTIONS-SQLJSON-PATH">SQL/JSON path expression</a>
+ support, optimizations for how common table expression (<code>WITH</code>)
+ queries are executed, and <a href="/docs/current/ddl-generated-columns.html">generated columns</a>.
</p>
<p>
- You can
- <a href="/download/">download</a> the release candidate
- <a href="/download/">here</a>.
+ The PostgreSQL community continues to support the extensibility and
+ robustness of PostgreSQL, with further additions to
+ internationalization, authentication, and providing easier ways to
+ administrate PostgreSQL. This release also introduces the
+ <a href="/docs/current/tableam.html">pluggable table storage interface</a>,
+ which allows developers to create their own methods for storing data.
</p>
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- <li><a href="/about/news/1975/">Release Announcement</a></li>
- <li><a href="/developer/beta/">Beta Testing Information</a></li>
- <li><a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12 Beta Features</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/about/news/1976/">Release Announcement</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/about/press/">PostgreSQL 12 Press Kit & Translations</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/docs/12/release-12.html">PostgreSQL 12 Release Notes</a></li>
<li><a href="/download/">Download</a></li>
</ul>
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<p>
The target date for these releases are, unless otherwise stated, the second
Thursday of February, May, August, and November. The current schedule for upcoming
-releases is:
+releases is:git diff 69476ee5781d461519bef12297d807fbf4091cbf..2ce8cc910f893674bc0ffc0f2bb263e575603538
</p>
<ul>
<li>November 7th, 2019</li>
<h2>Next major release</h2>
-<!-- <p>The next major release of PostgreSQL is planned to be the 12 release. A
-tentative schedule for this version has a release in the
-third quarter of 2019.</p> -->
+<p>
+ The next major release of PostgreSQL is planned to be the 13 release. A
+ tentative schedule for this version has a release in the third quarter of
+ 2020.
+</p>
-<p>The next major release of PostgreSQL is planned to be the 12 release. Currently,
- the scheduled date for this release is October 3, 2019.</p>
+<!-- <p>The next major release of PostgreSQL is planned to be the 12 release. Currently,
+ the scheduled date for this release is October 3, 2019.</p> -->
<p>While there are no formal requirements for each PostgreSQL release, there
are several places you can look to find out more information on upcoming