We are excited to announce yet another new release of the Postgres Operator. Thanks to everyone who contributed with PRs, feedback, raising issues or providing ideas.

New features

• new option to enable owner references on all child resources (#2688, #2199)
• implement per-cluster maintenance windows to define when automatic major version upgrade can happen (#2710, #2731)
• [Helm] add extraEnvs for operator deployments (#2671)

Enhancements

• pass inherited annotations also to existing child resources (#2657, #2713, #2723)
• all child resources are now represented in the cluster's Go struct incl. service, endpoints/configmaps created by Patroni (#2713, #2733)
• stream resources are not created after errors on syning the publication and slot (#2704, #2728)
• update package dependencies when building image (#2665)
• simplify delivery yaml file for building operator (#2673)
• resolve code problems reported by newer linters (#2715, #2713)
• config map example has been fully aligned with CRD config defaults (#2729)
• update Go to 1.22.5 and also updated dependencies (#2699, #2729)

Bugfixes

• fix deletion of resources when cluster fields are empty (#2713)
• fix volumeMounts diff (nil vs. empty) when comparing containers (#2686)
• do not set empty secret env vars for logical backup on GCS and Azure when not configured (#2732)
• handle publications without tables (#2722)

Breaking changes

• removing streams from manifest triggers a removal of database publication, slots and FES resources (#2684, #2563)
• automatic major version upgrades are enabled by default (manual mode) (#2729)
• dropped default of additional_secret_mount_path option when configured via config CRD (#2729)
• dropped support for Postgres 11 (#2706)
• dropped helm packages for 1.8.2 releases (#2729)

amd images: Docker image: registry.opensource.zalan.do/acid/postgres-operator:v1.13.0 UI Docker image: registry.opensource.zalan.do/acid/postgres-operator-ui:v1.13.0 Logical Backup Docker image: registry.opensource.zalan.do/acid/logical-backup:v1.13.0

Multi-arch image (arm): Postgres Operator: ghcr.io/zalando/postgres-operator:v1.13.0 UI: ghcr.io/zalando/postgres-operator-ui:v1.13.0 Logical Backup: ghcr.io/zalando/postgres-operator/logical-backup:v1.13.0

Default Spilo image: ghcr.io/zalando/spilo-16:3.3-p1

Thanks to our contributors: @idanovinda, @FxKu, @hughcapet, @macedigital, @sdudoladov @fahedouch, @mbegenau, @nickmansrob, @desaintmartin