pig v1.6.2

Ruohang FengAuthor of pig and founder of Pigsty.

Pig v1.6.2 is a feature and catalog release on top of v1.6.1. It grows the packaged extension catalog from 562 to 572, adds native Grafana dashboard schema v2 support, and improves local repository generation. The embedded Pigsty version remains locked at 4.5.0.

Highlights

• pig sty grafana now accepts both legacy dashboard JSON and native dashboard.grafana.app/v2 Dashboard resources. Loading a v2 dashboard uses Grafana’s resource API so tabs and section variables survive the round trip; dumping preserves an existing v2 destination while new dumps keep the legacy format by default.
• pig repo create now prefers sow create --pigsty --timeout 10m -- <dir> when SOW is available, requires the resulting repo_complete marker to exist as a regular file, and falls back to createrepo_c / dpkg-scanpackages on Linux.
• Local repository creation now works on macOS through SOW, defaults to the current directory there, and does not require sudo. The Linux default remains /www/pigsty.
• Release metadata is bumped to 1.6.2; the embedded Pigsty version stays at 4.5.0.

Extension Catalog

• Packaged extensions: 562 -> 572, with no removals.
• 10 new extensions: pg_turbovec, pg_disorder, pg_mentat, plruby, jsonb_plruby, hstore_plruby, ltree_plruby, pg_describe, cat_tools, and pg_vault_tde.
• 12 version refreshes: timescaledb 2.29.1, q3c 2.0.5, pgmnemo 0.16.1, pg_search 0.25.1, citus 14.2.0, citus_columnar 14.2.0, provsql 1.12.0, plpgsql_check 2.10.4, pg_rational 0.0.3, pgbson 2.1.0, pg_readme 0.7.1, and pg_readme_test_extension 0.7.1.
• Package metadata and availability matrices are refreshed. Run pig ext reload to replace the embedded release snapshot with the latest online catalog.

Compatibility Notes

• No commands or global flags are removed in this release.
• When SOW is installed, pig repo create now prefers it over the legacy Linux generators and checks that the completion marker exists before reporting success.
• The catalog count is not a promise that every package is available on every PostgreSQL / OS / architecture combination; use pig ext avail NAME on the target host.
• Package-manager and install-script upgrades use the newest version published by the configured Pigsty repository, which may lag GitHub. Use the GitHub assets when you need this exact release.

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