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Version Overview

[Release Date: Mar 12, 2026]

IvorySQL 5.3 is built on PostgreSQL 18.3 and includes a variety of bug fixes. For a comprehensive list of updates, please visit our documentation site.

Enhancements

• PostgreSQL 18.3

• Fix failure after replaying a multixid truncation record from WAL that was generated by an older minor version.

• Avoid incorrect complaint of invalid encoding when substring() is applied to "toasted" data.
• Fix oversight in the fix for CVE-2026-2007.
• Fix the volatility marking of json_strip_nulls() and jsonb_strip_nulls().
• Fix computation of the set of potentially-nulling outer joins for the output of a LATERAL UNION ALL subquery.

For further details, visit PostgreSQL’s release notes.

• PostgreSQL 18.2

• Guard against unexpected dimensions of oidvector/int2vector.

• Harden selectivity estimators against being attached to operators that accept unexpected data types.
• Fix buffer overrun in contrib/pgcrypto's PGP decryption functions.
• Fix inadequate validation of multibyte character lengths.
• Harden contrib/pg_trgm against changes in string lowercasing behavior.

For further details, visit PostgreSQL’s release notes.

Key Features

• Upgrade to PG 18.3 kernel: Feature [#1199] PostgreSQL kernel upgraded to version 18.3.

• Upgrade to PG 18.2 kernel: Feature [#1195] PostgreSQL kernel upgraded to version 18.2.

• IvorySQL 5.3 Online Experience: Feature #7 An interactive, browser-based environment will be launched to allow users to explore and evaluate IvorySQL 5.3 in real time — no installation required.

• Packaging for All Platforms Provides multi-platform media packages for X86, ARM, MIPS, LoongArch architecture.

• Containerized Deployment Support Supports one-click deployment of standalone or highly available IvorySQL 5.3 clusters via Docker Compose, Podman, Swarm, Helm, and the IvorySQL 5.3 Operator.

• IvorySQL Cloud 5.3 released (Visual Database Lifecycle Management Platform) Offers a fully managed, graphical control plane that handles IvorySQL 5.3 database subscriptions, orchestrates end-to-end lifecycle operations, and integrates surrounding ecosystem services.

• PostgreSQL Extensions Support for 10 Additional PostgreSQL Extensions: pg_cron, pgAudit, PostGIS, pgRouting, PGroonga, ddlx, pgsql-http, system_stats, plpgsql_check, pgvector.

Fixed Issues

• Clear build warnings: PR [#1190]
• Fix raw_expression_tree_walker for ColumnRefOrFuncCall: Issue [#1182]
• Fix the issue where upgrading from PostgreSQL to IvorySQL fails: Issue [#1130]
• Improved error message about plisql usage is ivorysql.compatible_mode = 'pg': PR [#1178]
• Fix array out-of-bounds read in token_is_col_id() - liboracle_parser.c: Issue [#1159]
• Fix psql tab-completion showing INVISIBLEINCREMENT: Issue [#1135]
• Fix variable reset bug in nested function expressions: Issue [#1124]
• Fix type coercion failure with mixed positional/named parameters in packages and subprocedures: Issue [#1006]
• Fix segfault when package procedure initializes local variable from parameter: Issue [#1005]
• Fix regression failures caused by the new year: PR [#1146]

Source Code

IvorySQL's development is maintained across four main repositories:

• IvorySQL database source code: https://github.com/IvorySQL/IvorySQL
• IvorySQL official website: https://github.com/IvorySQL/Ivory-www
• IvorySQL documentation: https://github.com/IvorySQL/IvorySQL_docs
• IvorySQL Docker: https://github.com/IvorySQL/docker_library

Contributors

The following individuals (in alphabetical order) have contributed to this release as patch authors, committers, reviewers, testers, or reporters of issues.

• Cédric Villemain
• Fawei Zhao
• Ge Sui
• Grant Zhou
• Oreo Yang
• Pierre Forstmann
• Rophy Tsai
• Shuntian Jiao
• Steven Niu
• Xiangyu Liang
• Xiaohui Liu
• Xinjie LYU
• Xueyu Gao
• Yasir Hussain Shah
• Yuan Li
• Zheng Tao
• Zhenhao Pan
• Zhe Zhang
• Zhuoyan Shi

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