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This Week in PostgreSQL

This week's PostgreSQL highlights include Percona Operator 3.0.0 completing its hard fork from Crunchy Data for independent Kubernetes deployments, Autobase 2.8.0 splitting into Community and Enterprise editions, Neon expanding paid plan data transfer fivefold to 500 GB monthly, and deep insights from contributors on improving logical replication for upgrades and multi-region pipelines. Tooling, reliability, and ecosystem evolution remain front and center.

May 28, 2026 | Slava Sarzhan Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0: Hard Fork, OLM Scoping, Major Upgrades Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0 completes its hard fork from Crunchy Data's operator, becoming fully independent. Key changes include renaming Custom Resource Definitions to… Read the Blog

Jun 01, 2026 | Brad Van Vugt We're including 5x more data transfer in all paid plans Neon announces a significant increase in data transfer allowances for paid plans, effective June 1, 2026. All paid subscribers now receive 500 GB of monthly data transfer, up from… Read the Blog

May 28, 2026 | Zhijie Hou How to hack Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: Insights from contributors Logical replication in PostgreSQL has evolved significantly since its introduction and is now widely adopted for cross-version upgrades, multi-region deployments, and real-time an… Read the Blog

Top 5 Hacker Discussions

Active PostgreSQL development spans replication, storage, and access method improvements. REPACK CONCURRENTLY saw its first patch portion committed after catalog_xmin debate. Logical replication conflict logging continues iterating on destination option design, with enum versus string-parameter disagreement unresolved. Index prefetching targeting PostgreSQL 20 returned at v25 with slot-based interface prioritized. WAL reduction via xl_heap_visible elimination received test stability commits. A publication EXCEPT-clause cleanup patch was abandoned after reviewers found no justification for behavioral change.

This Week's Industry Movements

Anthropic filed for an IPO after raising $65 billion at a near-trillion-dollar valuation, while also releasing Opus 4.8 with multi-agent Dynamic Workflows. Google launched Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI automation assistant. Meanwhile, hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts, exposing serious security risks when AI systems with elevated permissions lack adequate safeguards.

techcrunch.com Anthropic files to go public Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, announced Monday that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. The move marks a significant step for the AI…

techcrunch.com Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO Anthropic has completed a $65 billion Series H funding round, reaching a post-money valuation of $965 billion. This massive fundraise is believed to be the company's final private…

techcrunch.com Google's Gemini Spark AI assistant launches with 24/7 automation features Google has launched Gemini Spark, a new 24/7 AI assistant designed to automate everyday tasks such as inbox summaries and local event planning. Early testing shows the tool is gen…

techcrunch.com Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into granting access Several Instagram users reported over the weekend that their accounts had been compromised through an exploitation of Meta's AI-powered support chatbot. Hackers manipulated the au…

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