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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released a coordinated set of updates—versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22—alongside PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3, addressing security issues and more than 55 bug fixes accumulated over recent months. Published on August 14, 2025, the update cycle underscores PostgreSQL's practice of shipping cross- version patches that production teams can apply without dump-and-reload. For administrators, the message is clear: review the changelog, patch promptly, and run the recommended maintenance where applicable. Three CVEs are highlighted. CVE-2025-8713 covers a statistics exposure path that could allow a user to infer sampled data in a view, partition, or child table, potentially bypassing access controls or row-level security; fixes extend to supported releases back to version 13. CVE- 2025-8714 and CVE-2025-8715 both involve restore-time...