The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the first Release Candidate for PostgreSQL 9.2, which will include major increases in performance and both vertical and horizontal scalability. All outstanding issues should be fixed in this release candidate. Users should download and test PostgreSQL 9.2rc1 as soon as possible to ensure that the 9.2 final release is bug-free.

9.2rc1 includes multiple bug fixes to earlier beta releases, fixing all known outstanding issues as of last week. Among them are:

• Multiple documentation updates
• Apply translation updates
• Fix to cascading privilege REVOKE
• Prevent circular logic in pg_dump of security barrier views
• Fix bugs in pg_trgm
• Fix GiST build failure
• Disallow extensions from owning their own schema

If you previously tested any 9.2 beta and found one or more bugs, please test 9.2rc1 and make sure that those issues are resolved. If you haven't yet tested 9.2, please help out the PostgreSQL project by testing it now! More information on how to test and report issues is on the Beta Page.

Get PostgreSQL 9.2 beta, including binaries and installers for Windows, Linux and Mac from our download page.

Full documentation of the new version is available online, and also installs with PostgreSQL.

SQL Maestro Group announces the release of PostgreSQL PHP Generator 12.8, a powerful GUI frontend that allows you to generate feature-rich CRUD web applications for your PostgreSQL database.

The new version is immediately available at
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/postgresql/phpgenerator/.

Top 10 new features:

1. New modern look and feel.
2. Enhanced master-detail management.
3. Custom templates.
4. Automatic Filter Row.
5. Filter Builder.
6. New visual themes.
7. Improved usability.
8. New Autocomplete and Milti-Level Autocomplete controls.
9. New "after action" events.
10. On-the-fly metadata refreshing.

There are also some other useful things. Full press release is available at the SQL Maestro Group website.

Postgres Plus xDB Replication Server with Multi-Master is available now under our Beta program.

Here is the exciting list of benefits delivered by this new Postgres tool designed for applications in need of write availability and read scalability:

• Continuous database integration between writable database servers with automatic conflict resolution
• Data synchronization across geographies
• Enhanced high availability for write performance
• Improvement of write performance

Postgres Plus xDB Replication Server with Multi-Master operates on clusters of PostgreSQL or Postgres Plus Advanced Server version 8.4 and higher.

This beta release is available for Linux x86-64, with more platforms(1) scheduled to be released shortly. Download the software now at: http://www.enterprisedb.com/download-xdb-replication-server

Feature highlights:

• Update more than 1 master database at the same time
• Synchronize masters across geographies
• Multiple conflict resolution strategies
• Replicate one or more tables
• Automatic Schema replication
• Publication table DDL replication
• Graphical replication console and CLI
• Replication history viewer

(1) Linux x86-32, Win x86-64, Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86-64 and HP-UX. If you wish to receive an alert when your desired platform is available, let us know at: http://www.enterprisedb.com/multi-master-replication

Download the software now. Beta documentation is available for download at that page, too. We request that you post inquiries for technical support to our xDB forums.

Sincerely, The EnterpriseDB Team