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Notice of Obsolescence — the build

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Yesterday David Steele announced that he is stepping away from pgBackRest. After thirteen years, the most widely-deployed dedicated backup tool in the Post…

Yesterday David Steele announced that he is stepping away from pgBackRest. After thirteen years, the most widely-deployed dedicated backup tool in the PostgreSQL ecosystem is no longer maintained. The current release, v2.58.0, is the last release. Steele asks that any forks pick a new name, which is — among other things — an act of professional courtesy from a maintainer who has clearly thought about how trust gets built and how it doesn’t get inherited. The announcement is restrained in the way these things often are. The implications are not. What actually happened For most of pgBackRest’s l

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