The latest YugabyteDB preview release supports PostgreSQL 15. This represents a significant upgrade from the previous version. YugabyteDB 2.25 brings many new, long-awaited features, and this blog discusses the top 15 features (from PG12 to PG15) that will significantly benefit YugabyteDB developers.
The latest release of YugabyteDB delivers 15 key PostgreSQL 15 features, providing an industry-first zero-downtime PostgreSQL upgrade and downgrade experience. This gives users a truly cloud-native PostgreSQL solution. Discover how YugabyteDB 2.25 can help you confidently explore the latest PostgreSQL features and innovations while maintaining business continuity and minimizing risk.
We are thrilled to announce powerful new capabilities and architectural enhancements — collectively called enhanced Postgres compatibility — that allow a broader range of Postgres apps to run on YugabyteDB. This latest development makes YugabyteDB the perfect database for companies building cloud-native applications and modernizing existing applications to a cloud-native RDBMS. Click to discover what’s new in YugabyteDB and why we decided to build these new capabilities.
Disaster recovery is streamlined with YugabyteDB 2.21, introducing industry-first native orchestration features to ensure your data stays safe and readily accessible in today’s volatile cloud environments. This update not only simplifies resilience with the native xCluster DR but also supports database modernization and risk reduction through advanced isolation levels and Kubernetes Operator.
YugabyteDB Managed now supports Okta and PingOne for single sign-on (SSO), offering users enhanced identity security and the flexibility to select their preferred authentication method. This update not only simplifies user access and management but also introduces key features and benefits aimed at boosting security, convenience, and scalability for organizations.
YugabyteDB 2.20 revolutionizes cloud-native applications with its advanced change data capture, ensuring transactional consistency for a broader range of use cases. This latest release also introduces significant enhancements like OIDC-based authentication and online point-in-time recovery, reinforcing database resilience and performance.
YugabyteDB 2.19.2 introduces full support for Read Committed Isolation with Wait-On-Conflict, essential for PostgreSQL users looking to seamlessly lift-and-shift applications to a distributed environment. This feature ensures parity with PostgreSQL while leveraging the scale and resilience of YugabyteDB, simplifying the transition for users.
YugabyteDB 2.19 introduces a revolutionary built-in Connection Manager, transforming PostgreSQL’s well-documented connection challenges into strengths. The enhanced manager boosts connection creation speeds up to 20x and supports up to 5x more connections, all while maintaining consistent throughput.
YugabyteDB Voyager 1.5 makes it’s debut with a standout feature: live migration from Oracle and an intriguing preview of an upcoming database assessment tool. Discover more or watch our quick dem.
YugabyteDB Managed introduces five transformative updates, including the ability to create multi-region clusters on Microsoft Azure, unified monitoring with external metrics export, enhanced security with AWS or Azure Privatelink, increased fault tolerance, and flexible read replica scaling for optimal price-performance.
