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Microsoft's release-health pages say Windows updates released October 13, 2026 might leave SQL Server linked server connections open, with Oracle and PostgreSQL among those known to be affected; The Register differs from a Microsoft page on 26H2.

The PostgreSQL project's November 12 announcement lists six post-update steps, calls 14.25 the final 14 release and plans PostgreSQL 19 general availability for November 19; the five release-notes pages differ by branch.

SurrealDB 4.0 (November 3) adds PostgreSQL and MySQL SQL dialects that its blog calls a defined subset; the vendor advises existing 3.x users to wait for 4.1, and its 22x indexed-query gain is projected.

EDB announced the acquisition of Altinity on November 5, 2026; terms were not disclosed, integrated ClickHouse offerings are planned for Q4 2026, and two analysts quoted by TechTarget say integration work remains.

Dalibo's PostgreSQL Anonymizer 3.3 fixes 12 CVEs. Its announcement calls them critical; the CVE records give CVSS 3.1 base scores of 3.5 to 6.5, and none of the records mentions superuser access, which the announcement cites.

The PostgreSQL ODBC project released psqlODBC 18.00.0006 on November 2; its changelog lists CVE-2026-120057 through CVE-2026-120067 and says all earlier releases are affected.

Project sources link PostgreSQL 19's delay, curl's move of low and medium reports to public issues and Edge's extension-review automation to AI-assisted work; sources differ on how much of the PostgreSQL delay LLMs explain.

In a post LWN linked on October 30, PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas says LLM-found bug reports drove more back-patching and late reverts; the project's own announcements give no cause.

InfoWorld and The Register report competing Postgres-plus-Iceberg designs from Databricks, EDB, Snowflake, pgEdge and AWS, with analysts flagging a shared DuckDB dependency and catalog gaps.

Aurora PostgreSQL 17.11+ and 18.6+ can join live tables with Iceberg and Parquet data in S3 through an embedded DuckDB, with no ETL and no extra charge.

PostgreSQL 19 RC 1, posted October 15, sets general availability for November 19, 2026, and plans RC 2 for November 12 alongside the next scheduled update release.

PgBouncer 1.26.1, dated October 14, fixes CVE-2026-107350, CVE-2026-107349 and CVE-2026-107348 in versions up to 1.26.0, and changes how ignore_startup_parameters interacts with search_path.