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pgBackRest 2.58.0 Released

Posted on 2026-01-20 by pgBackRest Community
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January 19, 2026: The pgBackRest community is pleased to announce the release of pgBackRest 2.58.0, the latest version of the reliable, easy-to-use backup and restore solution that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads.

pgBackRest supports a robust set of features for managing your backup and recovery infrastructure, including: parallel backup/restore, full/differential/incremental backups, block incremental backup, multiple repositories, delta restore, parallel asynchronous archiving, per-file checksums, page checksums (when enabled) validated during backup, multiple compression types, encryption, partial/failed backup resume, backup from standby, tablespace and link support, S3/Azure/GCS/SFTP support, backup expiration, local/remote operation via SSH or TLS, flexible configuration, and more.

pgBackRest can be installed from the PostgreSQL Yum Repository or the PostgreSQL APT Repository and packages are also available many other distributions. Source code can be downloaded from releases.

New Features and Improvements

  • Allow expiration of oldest full backup regardless of current retention (Stefan Fercot)
  • HTTP support for S3, GCS, and Azure (Will Morland)
  • Support for Azure managed identities (Moiz Ibrar)
  • Experimental support for S3 EKS pod identity (Pierre BOUTELOUP)
  • Allow configuration of TLS cipher suites (Gunnar "Nick" Bluth)
  • Allow process priority to be set (David Steele)
  • Allow dots in S3 bucket names when using path-style URIs (Joakim Hindersson)
  • Dynamically size S3/GCS/Azure chunks for large uploads and optimize chunk size for small files (David Steele)

See the 2.58.0 Release Notes for additional features and improvements.

Important Notes

  • The minimum values for the repo-storage-upload-chunk-size option have increased. They now represent the minimum allowed by the vendors.
  • TLS >= 1.2 is now required. This requirement is relaxed when verification is disabled with repo-storage-verify-tls (though this is not recommended).
  • Per our policy to support five EOL versions of PostgreSQL, 9.5 is no longer supported by pgBackRest.

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