Barman

Features

- Allow `barman switch-wal --force` to be run against PG>=14 if the
user has the `pg_checkpoint` role (thanks to toydarian for this patch).

- Log the current check at `info` level when a check timeout occurs.

- The minimum size of an upload chunk when using `barman-cloud-backup`
with either S3 or Azure Blob Storage can now be specified using the
`--min-chunk-size` option.

- `backup_compression = none` is supported when using `pg_basebackup`.

- For PostgreSQL 15 and later: the allowed `backup_compression_level`
values for `zstd` and `lz4` have been updated to match those allowed by
`pg_basebackup`.

- For PostgreSQL versions earlier than 15: `backup_compression_level = 0`
can now be used with `backup_compression = gzip`.

Bug fixes:

- Fix `barman recover` on platforms where Multiprocessing uses spawn by
default when starting new processes.

Features

- Clarify package installation. barman is packaged with default python version
for each operating system.

- The `minimum-redundancy` option is added to `barman-cloud-backup-delete`.
It allows to set the minimum number of backups that should always be available.

- Add a new `primary_checkpoint_timeout` configuration option. Allows define
the amount of seconds that Barman will wait at the end of a backup if no
new WAL files are produced, before forcing a checkpoint on the primary server.

Bug fixes:

- Fix race condition in barman retention policies application. Backup
deletions will now raise a warning if another deletion is in progress
for the requested backup.

- Fix `barman-cloud-backup-show` man page installation.

Features

- Support is added for snapshot backups on AWS using EBS volumes.

- The `--profile` option in the `barman-cloud-*` scripts is renamed
`--aws-profile`. The old name is deprecated and will be removed in
a future release.

- Backup manifests can now be generated automatically on completion
of a backup made with `backup_method = rsync`. This is enabled by
setting the `autogenerate_manifest` configuration variable and can
be overridden using the `--manifest` and `--no-manifest` CLI options.

Bug fixes:

- The `barman-cloud-*` scripts now correctly use continuation
tokens to page through objects in AWS S3-compatible object
stores. This fixes a bug where `barman-cloud-backup-delete`
would only delete the oldest 1000 eligible WALs after backup
deletion.

- Minor documentation fixes.

Features

- PostgreSQL version 10 is no longer supported.

- Support is added for snapshot backups on Microsoft Azure using
Managed Disks.

- The `--snapshot-recovery-zone` option is renamed `--gcp-zone` for
consistency with other provider-specific options. The old name
is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

- The `snapshot_zone` option and `--snapshot-zone` argument are
renamed `gcp_zone` and `--gcp-zone` respectively. The old names
are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

- The `snapshot_gcp_project` option and `--snapshot-gcp-project`
argument are renamed to `gcp_project` and `--gcp-project`. The
old names are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Bug fixes:

- Barman will no longer attempt to execute the `replication-status`
command for a passive node.

- The `backup_label` is deleted from cloud storage when a
snapshot backup is deleted with `barman-cloud-backup-delete`.

- Man pages for the `generate-manifest` and `verify-backup`
commands are added.

- Minor documentation fixes.

Features

- Python 2.7 is no longer supported. The earliest Python version
supported is now 3.6.

- The `barman`, `barman-cli` and `barman-cli-cloud` packages for
EL7 now require python 3.6 instead of python 2.7. For other
supported platforms, Barman packages already require python
versions 3.6 or later so packaging is unaffected.

- Support for PostgreSQL 10 will be discontinued in future Barman
releases; 3.5.x is the last version of Barman with support for
PostgreSQL 10.

- Backups and WALs uploaded to Google Cloud Storage can now be
encrypted using a specific KMS key by using the `--kms-key-name`
option with `barman-cloud-backup` or `barman-cloud-wal-archive`.

- Backups and WALs uploaded to AWS S3 can now be encrypted using a
specific KMS key by using the `--sse-kms-key-id` option with
`barman-cloud-backup` or `barman-cloud-wal-archive` along with
`--encryption=aws:kms`.

- Two new configuration options are provided which make it possible
to limit the rate at which parallel workers are started during
backups with `backup_method = rsync` and recoveries.
`parallel_jobs_start_batch_size` can be set to limit the amount of
parallel workers which will be started in a single batch, and
`parallel_jobs_start_batch_period` can be set to define the time
in seconds over which a single batch of workers will be started.
These can be overridden using the arguments `--jobs-start-batch-size`
and `--jobs-start-batch-period` with the `barman backup` and
`barman recover` commands.

- A new option `--recovery-conf-filename` is added to `barman recover`.
This can be used to change the file to which Barman should write the
PostgreSQL recovery options from the default `postgresql.auto.conf`
to an alternative location.

Bug fixes

- Fix a bug which prevented `barman-cloud-backup-show` from
displaying the backup metadata for backups made with
`barman backup` and uploaded by `barman-cloud-backup` as a
post-backup hook script.

- Fix a bug where the PostgreSQL connection used to validate backup
compression settings was left open until termination of the
Barman command.

- Fix an issue which caused rsync-concurrent backups to fail when
running for a duration greater than `idle_session_timeout`.

- Fix a bug where the backup name was not saved in the backup
metadata if the `--wait` flag was used with `barman backup`.

Acknowledgements

We thank the following who contributed to this release:
- barthisrael
- epolkerman
- hzetters
- mhkarimi1383
- mojtabash78

Bug fixes:

- Fix a bug which prevented `barman-cloud-backup-show` from
displaying the backup metadata for backups made with
`barman backup` and uploaded by `barman-cloud-backup` as a
post-backup hook script.

- Fix a bug where the PostgreSQL connection used to validate backup
compression settings was left open until termination of the
Barman command.

- Fix an issue which caused rsync-concurrent backups to fail when
running for a duration greater than `idle_session_timeout`.

- Fix a bug where the backup name was not saved in the backup
metadata if the `--wait` flag was used with `barman backup`.

Acknowledgements

We thank the following who contributed to this release:
- barthisrael
- epolkerman
- hzetters