v1.3.0

[1.3.0] - 2026-04-08

Added

• Add helm charts to support installation of the a8s control plane (postgresql-operator, service-binding-controller and backup-manager).
• Add support in service-binding-controller to handle user creation of AWS RDS postgresql instances.
• BackupPolicy feature: Create new backups based on a schedule. You can now configure a schedule for each Postgresql instance's backups and when the backups will be cleaned up.
• PostgreSQL 16 support (Release Notes)
• Improved backup/restore reliability across versions.
• Added support for OpenShift to postgresql-operator, a8s-service-binding-controller and a8s-backup-manager.

Changed

• a8s-service-binding-controller: DSI namespace now defaults to the ServiceBinding's namespace if not explicitly set.
• a8s-service-binding-controller can be configured via --config flag again after a regression in release v1.2.0. See configuration documentation for details on the configuration file format.
• a8s-backup-manager: path_style is now automatically determined based on whether a backup store endpoint is configured or not.

Updated

• Bump Operator-SDK version to v1.34.1 for a8s-backup-manager
• Remove hard-coded start commands from deployment manifests
• Bump cert-manager version to v1.15.3
• Update various dependencies across operators.
• Update kube-rbac-proxy image across operator deployments.

Fixed

• Fix nil pointer dereference in OwnerUIDExtractor indexer function of PostgreSQL Operator.