Announcing KubeDB v2026.10.12

KubeDB v2026.10.12 introduces KubeDB Branching: safe, independent copies of your production database for testing, experimenting, and debugging, on the same cluster or on another one. Branching is available for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch. This release also brings a brand-new etcd database, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Cross Data Center Disaster Recovery for Postgres, point-in-time recovery for Milvus and Neo4j, Oracle RMAN backup to S3, Solr backup and restore, Amazon Aurora MySQL support in ProxySQL, MySQL Standalone to Group Replication promotion, and Virtual Secrets support across most of the KubeDB portfolio.