Citus 14.0 is out! Now with PG18 Support. Read all about it in Mehmet’s 14.0 blog post. 💥
The Citus 14.0 release is out and includes PostgreSQL 18 support! We know you've been waiting, and we've been hard at work adding features we believe will take your experience to the next level, focusing on bringing the Postgres 18 exciting improvements to you at distributed scale.
The Citus database is an open-source extension of Postgres that brings the power of Postgres to any scale, from a single node to a distributed database cluster. Since Citus is an extension, using Citus means you're also using Postgres, giving you direct access to the Postgres features. And the latest of such features came with Postgres 18 release!
PostgreSQL 18 is a substantial release: asynchronous I/O (AIO), skip-scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, uuidv7(), virtual generated columns by default, OAuth authentication, RETURNING OLD/NEW, and temporal constraints. For those of you who are interested in upgrading to Postgres 18 and scaling these new features of Postgres: you can upgrade to Citus 14.0!
Let's take a closer look at what's new in Citus 14.0:
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