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What's new in DLE 3.0?
The Postgres.ai team is happy to announce the release of version 3.0 of Database Lab Engine (DLE), the most advanced open-source software ever released that empowers development, testing, and troubleshooting environments for fast-growing projects. The use of Database Lab Engine 3.0 provides a competitive advantage to companies via implementing the "Shift-left testing" approach in software development.
Database Lab Engine is an open-source technology that enables thin cloning for PostgreSQL. Thin clones are exceptionally useful when you need to scale the development process. DLE can manage dozens of independent clones of your database on a single machine, so each engineer or automation process works with their very own database provisioned in seconds without extra costs.
Among major changes in DLE 3.0:
- UI included to the core, it allows working with a single DLE instance,
- persistent clones: clones now survive DLE (or VM) restart,
- for the "logical" data provisioning mode: the ability to switch reset clone's state using a snapshot from different pool/dataset,
- better logging and configuration simplicity,
- improvements for the cases when multiple DLEs are running on a single machine,
- PostgreSQL 14 support.
Starting with version 3.0.0, DLE collects non-personally identifiable telemetry data. This feature is enabled by default but can be switched off. Read more in the DLE documentation. Keeping telemetry enabled can be considered your contribution to the DLE development because it helps make decisions down the road of the open-source product development.
Further, we discuss the most requested changes that were implemented in DLE 3.0 โ all of them were created based on real-life user experience and invaluable feedback from the growing community of users and contributors.