**January 19, 2026**: The pgBackRest community is pleased to announce the release of [pgBackRest](https://pgbackrest.org) 2.58.0, the latest version of the reliable, easy-to-use backup and restore solution that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads.
pgBackRest supports a robust set of features for managing your backup and recovery infrastructure, including: parallel backup/restore, full/differential/incremental backups, block incremental backup, multiple repositories, delta restore, parallel asynchronous archiving, per-file checksums, page checksums (when enabled) validated during backup, multiple compression types, encryption, partial/failed backup resume, backup from standby, tablespace and link support, S3/Azure/GCS/SFTP support, backup expiration, local/remote operation via SSH or TLS, flexible configuration, and more. pgBackRest can be installed from the [PostgreSQL Yum Repository](https://yum.postgresql.org) or the [PostgreSQL APT Repository](https://apt.postgresql.org) and packages are also available many other distributions. Source code can be downloaded from [releases](https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/releases). ## New Features and Improvements - Allow expiration of oldest full backup regardless of current retention (Stefan Fercot) - HTTP support for S3, GCS, and Azure (Will Morland) - Support for Azure managed identities (Moiz Ibrar) - Experimental support for S3 EKS pod identity (Pierre BOUTELOUP) - Allow configuration of TLS cipher suites (Gunnar "Nick" Bluth) - Allow process priority to be set (David Steele) - Allow dots in S3 bucket names when using path-style URIs (Joakim Hindersson) - Dynamically size S3/GCS/Azure chunks for large uploads and optimize chunk size for small files (David Steele) See the [2.58.0 Release Notes](https://pgbackrest.org/release.html#2.58.0) for additional features and improvements. ## Important Notes - The minimum values for the repo-storage-upload-chunk-size option have increased. They now represent the minimum allowed by the vendors. - TLS >= 1.2 is now required. This requirement is relaxed when verification is disabled with repo-storage-verify-tls (though this is not recommended). - Per our policy to support five EOL versions of PostgreSQL, 9.5 is no longer supported by pgBackRest. ## Links - [Website](https://pgbackrest.org) - [User Guides](https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide-index.html) - [Release Notes](https://pgbackrest.org/release.html) - [Support](http://pgbackrest.org/#support)
