Added the ability to perform automatic major migration of BiHA clusters.

For more information, refer to Section 34.6.

Added support of the remote mode when creating a local backup storage.

For more information, refer to Chapter 58.

Added the ability to call the pg_diagdump function as well as download and delete diagnostic files.

For more information, refer to Chapter 47 and Section 46.1.5.

Added support of VictoriaLogs as an external data source for logs.

For more information, refer to Section 24.3.

Added support for instance initialization and backup recovery performed by an operating system user without the required privileges.

For more information, refer to Chapter 58.

Operation management.

Improved the user interface page for viewing mass instance operations and steps of individual operations.

Added the Step execution timeout, s configuration parameter for mass instance operations.

Added the ability to view detailed step information.

For more information, refer to Section 57.3.4, Section 57.3.3, and Section 57.3.5.

Alerts and triggers.

Improved the user interface page for alerts and triggers.

Added new variables for the alert text.

Added new alert priorities.

For more information, refer to Chapter 45.

CPU usage reports.

Added the ability to view, configure, and download CPU usage reports.

For more information, refer to Chapter 48.

Query plan visualization.

Added the ability to visualize query plans from the Activity and SQL statistics pages.

For more information, refer to Chapter 46 and Chapter 49.

Backup.

Added support for external directories when creating an instance from a backup.

For more information, refer to Section 33.1.2.

Instance roles.

Added the ability to create instance roles.

For more information, refer to Section 55.1.

Task schedules.

Added the ability to edit task schedules for different object classes, i.e., backup schedules, statistics collecting schedules for tables and databases, reindexing schedules for tables and databases, vacuuming schedules for tables and databases, and sampling schedules. Task schedules can be edited from both the Task console and from object pages.

For more information, refer to Chapter 57 and sections about specific objects.

BiHA.

Added the ability to create BiHA clusters with a referee node as well as add a referee node to the existing BiHA cluster.

For more information, refer to Section 34.5.4.

Security.

Added the audit event log, also known as audit trails, for troubleshooting, monitoring, accountability, and other purposes. For PPEM to log audit events, the logging must be configured first in the ppem-manager.yml manager configuration file.

For more information, refer to Section 7.8.

Postgres Pro Enterprise support.

Added support for Postgres Pro Enterprise 18 for the repository service instance and agents.

For more information, refer to Chapter 6.