Postgres 19 Beta 3 ships alongside 28 security fixes for the stable line
Third beta on August 13, 28 vulnerabilities patched across the stable branches, and Postgres 14 gets an end-of-life date. GA is weeks out.
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 shipped August 13, per the project's announcement, riding the same release wave as minor versions 18.6 through 14.24, which fix 28 security vulnerabilities and over 110 bugs across the supported branches. The path from here is the usual one: further betas if testing demands them, then release candidates, then general availability in the September-October corridor the community has kept for two decades.
The beta itself is fix-heavy and feature-quiet, which is what a
third beta is for. The headline features landed with
Beta 2 on July 16:
native SQL/PGQ graph queries and the unified REPACK command.
Beta 3 walks one thing back, GROUP BY ALL, and otherwise
repairs edges in temporal tables and logical replication. A
workload tested against this beta is materially the workload
that meets the release.
The quieter deadline rides in the same announcement: PostgreSQL 14 stops receiving fixes on November 12, 2026.
The builder's read repeats on schedule, which is the point of schedules: restore a production snapshot into 19 Beta 3 this month, run the slow queries, load the extensions. If the fleet still holds a 14, the same restore doubles as the migration rehearsal, three months before the fixes stop. Every autumn, someone's upgrade surprise turns out to have been available for free in August. Decline the tradition.
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