Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 17.5.1 (2025-05-28)

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is a solution that includes PostgreSQL server and the collection of tools from PostgreSQL community. These tools are tested to work together and serve to assist you in deploying and managing PostgreSQL.

The aim of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is to address the operational issues like High-Availability, Disaster Recovery, Security, Observability, Spatial data handling, Performance and Scalability, and others that enterprises are facing.

This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on Percona Server for PostgreSQL 17.5.1 - a binary compatible, open source drop in replacement of PostgreSQL Community 17.5.

Release Highlights

A new version of pg_tde

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL includes the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of pg_tde extension that brings in Transparent Data Encryption. This version of pg_tde provides a bunch of improvements, among which is WAL encryption now supporting Vault, automatic WAL internal key generation at server startup, new visibility and verification functions for default principal keys, and more. Learn about these features in the pg_tde release notes .

Updated Major upgrade topic in documentation

The Upgrading Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL from 16 to 17 guide has been updated with revised steps for the On Debian and Ubuntu using apt section, improving clarity and reliability of the upgrade process.

Extension	Version	Description
etcd	3.5.21	A distributed, reliable key-value store for setting up high available Patroni clusters
HAProxy	2.8.15	A high-availability and load-balancing solution
Patroni	4.0.5	A HA (High Availability) solution for PostgreSQL
PgAudit	17.1	Provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL
pgAudit set_user	4.1.0	Provides an additional layer of logging and control when unprivileged users must escalate roles for maintenance.
pgBackRest	2.55.0	A backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL
pgBadger	13.1	A fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer
PgBouncer	1.24.1	A lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL
pg_gather	v30	An SQL script for running the diagnostics of the health of a PostgreSQL cluster
pgpool2	4.6.0	A middleware between PostgreSQL server and client for high availability, connection pooling, and load balancing
pg_repack	1.5.2	Rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects
pgvector	v0.8.0	A vector similarity search for PostgreSQL
PostGIS	3.3.8	A spatial extension for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL Common	277	PostgreSQL database-cluster manager. Supports multiple PostgreSQL versions and clusters simultaneously
wal2json	2.6	A PostgreSQL logical decoding JSON output plugin

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and compatible derivatives, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL also includes the supplemental python3-etcd 0.4.5 packages, which are used for setting up Patroni clusters.

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is also shipped with the libpq library. It contains “a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries.”