pgBackRest 2.59.0 Released

July 30, 2026: The pgBackRest community is pleased to announce the release of pgBackRest 2.59.0, 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, malware/ransomware protection, 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 for many other distributions. Source code can be downloaded from releases.

Significant New Features and Improvements

• PostgreSQL 19 support (David Steele)
• Add archive-expire-before option to clean up WAL archive (Stefan Fercot)
• Add support for S3 Outposts (Shiva Kumar Ambigi)
• Add S3 process authentication (David Steele)
• Add user/group caching for faster manifest build (Gunnar Lindholm)
• Reconnect SFTP storage after the server drops an idle connection (David Steele)
• Add per-repo backup progress to info command output (Will Morland)
• Add batch delete for Azure storage (David Steele)
• Add backup.info checks to verify command (Denis Garsh)
• Allow the S3 STS endpoint to be configured (Simon Gratton)
• Add systemd notify integration (Andrew Jackson)
• Error when running as root unless allow-root is enabled (David Steele)
• Exit async archive-push on first error (David Steele)

See the 2.59.0 Release Notes for additional features and improvements.

Important Notes

• Only the restore command may be run as root by default. Use allow-root to run other commands as root (though this is not recommended).
• A new distribution tarball with pregenerated documentation, man page, and code is attached to each release to simplify packaging. See New Distribution Tarball for more information.
• There is a new optional dependency on libsystemd.

Links

• Website
• User Guides
• Release Notes

Sponsorship

This release was made possible by the generous sponsorship of AWS, Supabase, pgEdge, Tiger Data, Percona, Eon, Xata, Dalibo, and Data Egret.