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2025-11-13 - PostgreSQL 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 Released!

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. This release fixes 2 security vulnerabilities and over 50 bugs reported over the last several months. You can find details on the fixes in the release notes.

This is the final release of PostgreSQL 13. PostgreSQL 13 is now end-of-life and will no longer receive security and bug fixes. If you are running PostgreSQL 13 in a production environment, we suggest that you make plans to upgrade to a newer, supported version of PostgreSQL. Please see our versioning policy for more information.

For the more information about this release, please review the release notes. You can download PostgreSQL from the download page.

For more information on PostgreSQL 18, the latest major version of PostgreSQL, please see the full press release and translations of the release announcement in the press kit.

• 18.1 · 2025-11-13 · Notes
• 17.7 · 2025-11-13 · Notes
• 16.11 · 2025-11-13 · Notes
• 15.15 · 2025-11-13 · Notes
• 14.20 · 2025-11-13 · Notes

• 2025-11-20 · PostGIS Day 2025
• 2025-11-21 · PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2025
• 2026-02-06 · CERN PGDay 2026
• 2026-03-05 – 2026-03-06 · PostgreSQL@SCaLE23x
• 2026-03-11 – 2026-03-13 · PGConf India 2026
• 2026-03-26 · pgDay Paris 2026
• 2026-04-21 – 2026-04-22 · PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2026

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