Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-18T21:26:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.

  2. doc: PG 16 relnotes, remove "Have initdb use ICU by default"

  3. initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.

  4. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author

  5. doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item

  6. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item

  7. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention

  8. doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item

  9. doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization

  10. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit

  11. doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text

  12. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge

  13. doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments

  14. doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items

  15. doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item

  16. doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements

  17. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list

  18. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail

  19. doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates

  20. doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits

  21. Allow logical decoding on standbys

  22. Fix ts_headline() edge cases for empty query and empty search text.

  23. Add a hook for modifying the ldapbind password

  24. Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect

  25. initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.

  26. Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.

  27. Simplify the implementations of the to_reg* functions.

  28. Rename pg_dissect_walfile_name() to pg_split_walfile_name()

  29. Make materialized views participate in predicate locking

  30. Improve performance of and reduce overheads of memory management

  31. Allow grant-level control of role inheritance behavior.

On 5/18/23 4:49 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have completed the first draft of the PG 16 release notes.  You can
> see the output here:
> 
> 	https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-16.html
> 
> I will adjust it to the feedback I receive;  that URL will quickly show
> all updates.

Thanks for going through this. The release announcement draft will 
follow shortly after in a different thread.

> I learned a few things creating it this time:
> 
> *  I can get confused over C function names and SQL function names in
>     commit messages.
> 
> *  The sections and ordering of the entries can greatly clarify the
>     items.
> 
> *  The feature count is slightly higher than recent releases:
> 
> 	release-10:  189
> 	release-11:  170
> 	release-12:  180
> 	release-13:  178
> 	release-14:  220
> 	release-15:  184
> -->	release-16:  200

This definitely feels like a very full release. Personally I'm very excited.

Thanks,

Jonathan