Обсуждение: Schedule for PG 18 RC and GA releases

The release team has agreed that we should put out 18rc1 next
week (wrap 9/1, announce 9/4).

If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).

            regards, tom lane

On 8/26/25 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
> The release team has agreed that we should put out 18rc1 next
> week (wrap 9/1, announce 9/4).
> 
> If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
> full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).


Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go 
or a no-go for 9/25?

-- 
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> On 8/26/25 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
>> full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).

> Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go 
> or a no-go for 9/25?

AFAIK we're still go for next week.

            regards, tom lane

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go
> > or a no-go for 9/25?
>
> AFAIK we're still go for next week.

I don't understand why we're always doing the list of major features
at the absolute last possible moment. I really think that should have
been done a month ago, if not several months, so that we could have
appropriate time for bike-shedding before it goes into the tree and
for messaging after it goes into the tree. Now we're sitting here with
a placeholder in the documentation when we're supposed to wrap in 5
days, and 2 of those are weekend days.

--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

On 9/17/25 11:23, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
>> On 8/26/25 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> If the RC period goes smoothly, we'll put out 18.0 the last
>>> full week of September (wrap 9/22, announce 9/25).
> 
>> Given that 9/22 is just a few days away, any thoughts on whether we a go 
>> or a no-go for 9/25?
> 
> AFAIK we're still go for next week.


Sounds good. I am still available for the usual sysadmin bits on release 
day.

-- 
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 11:33:52AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't understand why we're always doing the list of major features
> at the absolute last possible moment. I really think that should have
> been done a month ago, if not several months, so that we could have
> appropriate time for bike-shedding before it goes into the tree and
> for messaging after it goes into the tree. Now we're sitting here with
> a placeholder in the documentation when we're supposed to wrap in 5
> days, and 2 of those are weekend days.

Agreed.

FWIW I posted a draft elsewhere [0], but I believe Jonathan intends to
propose something, too [1].  It looks like progress is being made on the
acknowledgments section as well [2].  Please let me know if there's
anything else I can do to help.

[0] https://postgr.es/m/aLO7Wv1tYUd17ZkA%40nathan
[1] https://postgr.es/m/6F09EBB5-7470-4B48-B4D5-7276D11CC77A%40postgresql.org
[2] https://postgr.es/m/flat/a49a9219-844e-489c-8f20-0d424545b6d8%40eisentraut.org

-- 
nathan