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February 10, 2021

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.4

Run mission-critical applications at scale with enterprise-grade SLAs and security

Our mission at Yugabyte is to build the default distributed SQL database for cloud native applications in a multi-cloud world. We have been accelerating on this mission by bringing new features, growing our user base, and making our software as robust as possible. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.4 which includes major enhancements and provides enterprise-grade stability allowing you to deploy YugabyteDB in production environments.

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What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features

November 12, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

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What’s New in YugabyteDB 2.5 – Enterprise-Grade Security Features

The YugabyteDB 2.5 release adds many critical enterprise-grade security features. This blog post outlines these newly added features.

Authentication

Adding scram-sha-256 authentication

The first notable addition is the addition of a much improved, password-based authentication mechanism called Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (or simply SCRAM) as described in RFC5802. This scram-sha-256 authentication mechanism, identical to the most secure PostgreSQL authentication schema,

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November 12, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

Community News Company News Databases Distributed SQL PostgreSQL Release Announcements

Announcing YugabyteDB 2.5

Support for Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade Security Features

Our mission at Yugabyte is to build the default distributed SQL database for cloud native applications in a multi cloud world. To further that mission, this release brings major enhancements to multi-region deployments, performance, and security features offered by the database – while simultaneously improving on high availability, horizontal scalability, and ease of managing the database.

Enhanced multi-region capabilities with geo-partitioning and follower reads: The YugabyteDB 2.5 release adds row-level geo-partitioning capabilities as well as follower reads to the extensive set of multi-region features that YugabyteDB already had.

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October 8, 2020

By Chirag Narang

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Yugabyte Adopts a New Versioning System

Many users in the YugabyteDB community simply love the velocity with which new and exciting features are introduced through frequent releases. However, as more and more business-critical applications start depending on YugabyteDB as the system of record database, there is an increasing need for enterprises to operate existing versions in production longer and avoid adopting fast-moving releases which can go through radical design changes. It’s clear we have different groups of users, each with important needs: those who need to go into production now with the generally available features,

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July 10, 2019

By Jimmy Guerrero

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YugabyteDB Engineering & Community Update – July 10, 2019

We are pleased to announce that YugabyteDB 1.2.12 is live! You can read the release notes of this and previous versions here. This release is shipping with 11 new enhancements and bug fixes. This also means we are getting closer to our 2.0 release at the end of the Summer in which the YSQL API will become generally available.

What’s YSQL? It’s YugabyteDB’s PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed SQL API.

To learn more about what’s shipping in the 2.0 release check out “YugabyteDB 2.0: A Distributed SQL Roadmap.”

[#1446] Visually Inspect YSQL Commands

This new feature is especially useful to SQL developers.

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Introducing YSQL: A PostgreSQL Compatible Distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB

October 25, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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Introducing YSQL: A PostgreSQL Compatible Distributed SQL API for YugabyteDB

YugaByte has introduced YSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL API in YugabyteDB’s 1.1 release. This architecture enables developer agility, operational simplicity, and scalability, addressing the needs of fast-growing online services and cloud-native deployments.

August 20, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugaByte Database Engineering Update – August 20, 2018

Time for another update from the engineering team at YugaByte! It has been a month since the last update, so let’s dive right in.

Community News

Recent Events

On the conference front, YugaByte was at Google Next towards the end of July. YugabyteDB was already very well integrated into the Google Cloud Compute ecosystem, we additionally announced support for Google Container Engine (GKE). You can also read about how YugabyteDB compares with the various Google Cloud databases.

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July 20, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

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YugaByte Database Community & Engineering Update — July 20, 2018

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the YugabyteDB Community and Engineering update series! Let’s dive in and take a look at what has happened over the last few weeks.

Community News

There has been a lot of activity in terms of meetups and events. In June, YugaByte was at DockerCon. We also did a hands-on lab about building geo-distributed cloud apps at a Datariders meetup and a talk at Samsung about

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May 21, 2018

By Karthik Ranganathan

Community News Distributed SQL How It Works Release Announcements

YugabyteDB 1.0 — A Peek Under The Hood

Modern user-facing apps, like E-Commerce and SaaS, frequently require features from multiple databases (broadly — SQL, NoSQL and a cache) to support their multi-workload needs. App developers are responsible for understanding and managing which pieces of data should be stored in which SQL and NoSQL database. Furthermore, the app is also responsible for moving data across the tiers (e.g. populating the cache on reads and invalidating it on writes). This greatly increases development and operational complexity,

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May 2, 2018

By Kannan Muthukkaruppan

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Announcing YugabyteDB 1.0! 🍾 🎉

Team YugaByte is delighted to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 1.0!

It has been an incredibly satisfying experience to, in just two years, build and launch a cloud-scale, transactional and high-performance database that’s already powering real-world production workloads. I wanted to take a moment to share our journey to 1.0 and the road ahead.

The Inspiration

Modern user-facing applications are increasingly moving to a multi-region,

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Release Announcements

Run mission-critical applications at scale with enterprise-grade SLAs and security

Authentication

Adding scram-sha-256 authentication

Support for Geo-Partitioning and Enterprise-Grade Security Features

[#1446] Visually Inspect YSQL Commands

Community News

Recent Events

Community News

The Inspiration

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