Release 2026.0.0.5 (Preview)

This release contains the following new feature(s):

The YugabyteDB connector v2026.0.0.5 Preview release introduces a revamped backup and restore workflow and a simplified target-side VDB architecture. This preview supports incremental backup chain ingestion, direct-binary VDB operations, S3 IAM instance-profile authentication, and optional node-to-node TLS for VDB clusters.

  • Incremental backup chain ingestion

    This feature ingests the most recent completed full backup and the incremental backups in its backup chain. Yugabyte Anywhere resolves the full and incremental backup chain.

  • Direct-binary VDB lifecycle

    The Yugabyte connector provisions and manages VDBs directly with YugabyteDB binaries on target hosts. Yugabyte Anywhere is needed on the dSource/staging workflow. The connector automatically discovers the databases present in the selected dSource snapshot.

  • S3 IAM instance-profile authentication

    For S3-backed dSource ingestion, use EC2 instance profiles instead of storing long-lived AWS access keys. The staging host and the YBA/DB-node environment must have roles that can access the configured backup location.

  • VDB node-to-node TLS

    This feature encrypts master-to-master, master-to-tserver, and tserver-to-tserver traffic in plugin-managed VDB clusters. You supply and maintain the required certificates on every VDB node.

Last updated
Oct 22, 2026