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2025-07-17 - PostgreSQL 18 Beta 2 Released!

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the second beta release of PostgreSQL 18 is now available for download. This release contains previews of all features when PostgreSQL 18 is made generally available, though some details of the release can change during the beta period.

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PostgreSQL 18 Beta 2 Released!

  •  2025-05-08

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the second beta release of PostgreSQL 18 is now available for download. This release contains previews of all features when PostgreSQL 18 is made generally available, though some details of the release can change during the beta period.

You can find information about all of the PostgreSQL 18 features and changes in the release notes.

In the spirit of the open source PostgreSQL community, we strongly encourage you to test the new features of PostgreSQL 18 on your systems to help us eliminate bugs and other issues. While we do not advise you to run PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 in production environments, we encourage you to find ways to run your typical application workloads against this beta release.

Your testing and feedback helps the community ensure that PostgreSQL 18 upholds our standards of delivering a stable, reliable release of the world's most advanced open source relational database. Please read more about our beta testing process and how you can contribute.

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