PostgreSQL 14 gets its final release on November 12, 2026. After that, the community stops shipping fixes for it, security fixes included, so upgrade to PostgreSQL 18 with pg_upgrade, a dump and restore, or logical replication.

What ends on November 12, 2026

The PostgreSQL project supports each major version for 5 years after its first release, then ships one final minor release and stops ( versioning policy ). PostgreSQL 14 came out on September 30, 2021. Its final release is November 12, 2026, which is also the date of the next scheduled minor releases ( release roadmap ).

Minor releases are where bug fixes, security fixes and data corruption fixes ship. Once 14 stops getting them, anything found later stays unfixed on 14.…