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PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 Moves General Availability to November 19, With a Second Release Candidate Planned for November 12
PostgreSQL 19 RC 1, posted October 15, sets general availability for November 19, 2026, and plans RC 2 for November 12 alongside the next scheduled update release.
Qdrant 1.19.2 Speeds Sparse-Vector Upserts, Fixes Zero-Result Filtered HNSW Searches and Adds GCS and Azure Snapshot Storage
Qdrant's v1.19.2 release notes list faster sparse-vector upserts, a fix for filtered HNSW searches returning no results, GCS and Azure Blob snapshot support, and two security changes.
DuckDB Adds an Agent Mode to Its Unreleased v2.0 CLI That Prints Compact Tables and JSON Errors When It Detects a Coding Agent
DuckDB's blog describes a v2.0 CLI agent mode that cut output tokens 59% in its own Claude Code test, but v2.0 is not yet released.
Weaviate 1.40.1 and 1.38.21 Release Notes Cite Fixes for x/net CVE-2026-78663 and zlib CVE-2026-85091, While 1.39.12 Cites Only the x/net Fix
Weaviate published 1.38.21, 1.39.12 and 1.40.1 on October 12 and 13; the notes cite two CVE fixes, list no breaking changes or features, and do not describe the CVEs.
SQLite 3.54.0 Adds CLI Prompt Escape Sequences and a .diskused Command, Deprecates sqlite3_analyzer and Requires Windows Vista or Later
SQLite 3.54.0, dated 2026-10-09, reworks the sqlite3 CLI, adds query planner changes and new date modifiers, and ends Windows XP support, per the project's release log.
NATS Server 2.15.1 and 2.14.8 Fix JetStream, Leafnode and Account-Permission Bugs and Remove Support for the Legacy $GR. Gateway Reply Prefix
NATS Server v2.15.1 and v2.14.8, both published October 9, remove legacy $GR. reply-prefix support and fix JetStream, leafnode, MQTT and permission-refresh bugs.
PGX Releases pgx-bm25 1.0, a PostgreSQL-Licensed BM25 Search Index for PostgreSQL 17 and 18 With No External Search Engine
PGX Inc. released pgx-bm25 1.0, a C extension adding Okapi BM25 ranked full-text search to PostgreSQL 17 and 18 as an index access method with WAL and replication.
Cloudflare Rebrands Its Data Platform as Basin and Takes Iceberg Pipelines, Catalog and SQL to General Availability
Cloudflare renamed R2 SQL, R2 Data Catalog and Pipelines as Basin SQL, Catalog and Pipelines and moved them to GA; R2 egress stays free, but pipeline sinks and queries are metered.
SurrealDB 3.3 Lets Any Postgres Client Connect and Streams Query Results, but Does Not Speak ANSI SQL
SurrealDB 3.3 adds a Postgres wire-protocol listener, row-by-row result streaming and 15 security fixes, though the docs say it speaks SurrealQL, not ANSI SQL.
DuckDB 1.5.6 Ships Correctness and Crash Fixes, and Previews a Windows Build of v2.0 That Ran TPC-H More Than 6x Faster
DuckDB's sixth 1.5 patch release fixes wrong-result and crash bugs; the team also reports a v2.0.0-dev Windows build finishing a TPC-H SF300 run in 129 seconds versus 822.
ClickHouse 26.9 Adds Incremental Refreshable Materialized Views, Time-Limited CREATE TOKEN Credentials and Boundary-Based LIMIT
ClickHouse 26.9 ships 56 new features, adding APPEND INCREMENTAL refreshable views for Iceberg, CREATE TOKEN credentials, LIMIT AFTER/UNTIL, and DISTINCT disk spilling.
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 Reverts Six Features, Including Property Graph Queries, as Project Targets an October Release
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4, released September 24, reverts SQL/PGQ graph queries, online checksum toggling, and four other features as the project targets an October general availability.