pgAdmin 4 v5.0 has been officially released, and the updates include bug fixes and introduction of new features.
New features
- Desktop Runtime based on NWjs
The desktop runtime is now built on NWjs, which integrates the browser and the Python server and creates a standalone application. By using NWjs to achieve runtime, pgAdmin 4 no longer depends on a separate server application and a separate browser, and also does not rely on Qt and C++ runtime logic.
This feature has two known minor issues ( 6255 and 6258 ), both of which are caused by bugs in NWjs itself; the temporary solution is, if you are a macOS user, you should exit pgAdmin from the application menu instead of Exit from the bottom bar of the Dock to avoid issue #6255 . The second problem may cause Windows users to see a red square instead of the normal application icon in some cases.
- Support logical replication
Logical replication uses a publish and subscribe model. One or more subscribers subscribe to one or more publications on the publisher node. By introducing new tree view nodes and dialog boxes, the new version adds support for logical replication, and users can easily create/modify/delete publications and subscriptions. In addition, support for logical replication is also included in the Schema Diff tool.
- Quick search function
A quick search option has been added to the "Help" menu to search for menu items and help articles. Enter at least three characters to display all the matching possibilities under the menu item and related documents under the help article.
- Support closing Statistics, Dependencies, Dependants tabs
The user can add it back using the "Add panel" option in the context menu of the tab bar
- When running in Docker/Kubernetes, make sure that the logs are not stored in the container, only sent to the console
Bugfix & other changes
- Use cheroot as the default production server for pgAdmin4
- Upgrade JavaScript dependencies to the latest version
- Fixed an issue where the focus was not correctly set on the filter text editor after closing the error dialog
- Fixed an issue where the "Dependencies" tab showed multiple owners on objects with shared dependencies
- Fix the problem that users cannot change the background color of the server
- Fixed an issue where external utility jobs (backup and maintenance, etc.) failed when the log level was set to DEBUG
- Ensure that DEB/RPM packages depend on the same version of each other
- Fixed the auto-completion problem, if the schema name contains escape characters, no suggestions will be displayed
Download link: https://www.pgadmin.org/download/