[ANNOUNCE] pg_probackup 2.0.24 released

PostgreSQL Professional are proud to announce the release of 
pg_probackup 2.0.24.

pg_probackup is a utility to manage backup and recovery of PostgreSQL 
database cluster. It is designed to perform periodic full and 
incremental page-level backups of the PostgreSQL instance that enable 
you to restore the server in case of a failure.

Changes since 2.0.17:
    * Bugfix: incorrect handling of badly compressed blocks, previously 
there was a risk to restore block in uncompressed state, if compressed 
size was equal or larger than BLCKSZ
    * Bugfix: timeout units now calculated in seconds instead of 
milliseconds.
    * Bugfix: nullified blocks are not skipped by DELTA backup.
    * Bugfix: show table is now dynamically resized.
    * Bugfix: Use UTC time for start_backup time.
    * Impromevent: backup from replica >= 9.6 no longer need connection 
to master.
    * Improvement: merge is now considered stable feature. Merge command 
allows you to merge incremental backup to parent full backup.
    * Improvement: validation now use more conservative and paranoid 
approach to file validation, during validation pg_probackup also check 
block checksumm, make sanity check based on block header information and 
try to detect blocks from future. This behavior can be disabled with 
'--skip-block-validation' option.
    * Impromevent: unchanged non-data files such as _vm/_fsm/clog_files 
are skipped. The fact of unchanging determined by crc calculation.
    * Improvement: pagemap complication for PAGE backup now can be done 
in parallel.
    * Improvement: now validation build incremental backup chain based 
on parent_link. With this new approach sudden backup disappearance will 
be detected.
    * Improvement: detection of WAL corruption is improved.
    * Improvement: LSN as recovery target is now available for 
PostgreSQL >= 10.
* Improvement: restore point as recovery target is now available.
* Improvement: default compression level is now 1.
* Improvement: json format is now available for show and show-config 
commands via '--format=json' option.
    * Improvement: '--no-validate' option is added to restore which 
disables validation before restore. Use with caution.
    * Workaround: buggy algorithm of minRecPoint determination during 
recovery in PostgreSQL 9.6.10/9.5.14/10.5 introduced by commit 
8d68ee6(blocks from future) forced us to overwrite minRecPoint in 
pg_control during backup with latest applied LSN.
    * Portability: Windows support is now in beta stage.
    * Multiple minor fixes and improvements.

Download
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https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_probackup

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