experimental support for pg_anon

Signed-off-by: Luís Tavares <luis@neon.tech>
2026-02-10 22:20:38 +00:00 · 2025-03-13 14:33:57 +00:00
1009 changed files with 25042 additions and 62847 deletions
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 !pageserver/
 !pgxn/
 !proxy/
-!endpoint_storage/
 !storage_scrubber/
 !safekeeper/
 !storage_broker/
--- a/.github/actionlint.yml
+++ b/.github/actionlint.yml
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@ self-hosted-runner:
    - small
    - small-metal
    - small-arm64
-    - unit-perf
    - us-east-2
 config-variables:
-  - AWS_ECR_REGION
  - AZURE_DEV_CLIENT_ID
  - AZURE_DEV_REGISTRY_NAME
  - AZURE_DEV_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
@@ -17,30 +15,23 @@ config-variables:
  - AZURE_PROD_REGISTRY_NAME
  - AZURE_PROD_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
  - AZURE_TENANT_ID
-  - BENCHMARK_INGEST_TARGET_PROJECTID
-  - BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_PROJECTID
  - BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_PUB
  - BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_SUB
-  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN
-  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN
-  - HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET
-  - HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT
-  - HETZNER_CACHE_REGION
-  - NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
-  - NEON_PROD_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
-  - PGREGRESS_PG16_PROJECT_ID
-  - PGREGRESS_PG17_PROJECT_ID
  - REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER
  - REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION
-  - SLACK_CICD_CHANNEL_ID
-  - SLACK_COMPUTE_CHANNEL_ID
-  - SLACK_ON_CALL_DEVPROD_STREAM
-  - SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM
-  - SLACK_ON_CALL_STORAGE_STAGING_STREAM
-  - SLACK_ONCALL_COMPUTE_GROUP
-  - SLACK_ONCALL_PROXY_GROUP
-  - SLACK_ONCALL_STORAGE_GROUP
-  - SLACK_PROXY_CHANNEL_ID
-  - SLACK_RUST_CHANNEL_ID
-  - SLACK_STORAGE_CHANNEL_ID
  - SLACK_UPCOMING_RELEASE_CHANNEL_ID
+  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN
+  - BENCHMARK_INGEST_TARGET_PROJECTID
+  - PGREGRESS_PG16_PROJECT_ID
+  - PGREGRESS_PG17_PROJECT_ID
+  - SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM
+  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN
+  - SLACK_ON_CALL_STORAGE_STAGING_STREAM
+  - SLACK_CICD_CHANNEL_ID
+  - SLACK_STORAGE_CHANNEL_ID
+  - NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
+  - NEON_PROD_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
+  - AWS_ECR_REGION
+  - BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_PROJECTID
+  - SLACK_ON_CALL_DEVPROD_STREAM
+  - SLACK_RUST_CHANNEL_ID
--- a/.github/actions/allure-report-generate/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/allure-report-generate/action.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ inputs:
    type: boolean
    required: false
    default: false
-  aws-oidc-role-arn:
+  aws-oicd-role-arn:
    description: 'OIDC role arn to interract with S3'
    required: true

@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ runs:

    - name: Install Allure
      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      working-directory: /tmp
      run: |
        if ! which allure; then
          ALLURE_ZIP=allure-${ALLURE_VERSION}.zip
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ runs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
        role-duration-seconds: 3600 # 1 hour should be more than enough to upload report

    # Potentially we could have several running build for the same key (for example, for the main branch), so we use improvised lock for this
--- a/.github/actions/allure-report-store/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/allure-report-store/action.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inputs:
  unique-key:
    description: 'string to distinguish different results in the same run'
    required: true
-  aws-oidc-role-arn:
+  aws-oicd-role-arn:
    description: 'OIDC role arn to interract with S3'
    required: true

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ runs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
        role-duration-seconds: 3600 # 1 hour should be more than enough to upload report

    - name: Upload test results
--- a/.github/actions/download/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/download/action.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ inputs:
  prefix:
    description: "S3 prefix. Default is '${GITHUB_RUN_ID}/${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT}'"
    required: false
-  aws-oidc-role-arn:
+  aws-oicd-role-arn:
    description: 'OIDC role arn to interract with S3'
    required: true

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ runs:
    - uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
        role-duration-seconds: 3600

    - name: Download artifact
--- a/.github/actions/neon-project-create/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/neon-project-create/action.yml
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ runs:
      # A shell without `set -x` to not to expose password/dsn in logs
      shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}
      run: |
-        res=$(curl \
+        project=$(curl \
          "https://${API_HOST}/api/v2/projects" \
-          -w "%{http_code}" \
+          --fail \
          --header "Accept: application/json" \
          --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
          --header "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" \
@@ -83,15 +83,6 @@ runs:
              \"settings\": ${PROJECT_SETTINGS}
            }
          }")
-        
-        code=${res: -3}
-        if [[ ${code} -ge 400 ]]; then
-          echo Request failed with error code ${code}
-          echo ${res::-3}
-          exit 1
-        else
-          project=${res::-3}
-        fi

        # Mask password
        echo "::add-mask::$(echo $project | jq --raw-output '.roles[] | select(.name != "web_access") | .password')"
@@ -135,7 +126,6 @@ runs:
            -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
            -d "{\"scheduling\": \"Essential\"}"
        fi
-        

      env:
        API_HOST: ${{ inputs.api_host }}
--- a/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ inputs:
    description: 'benchmark durations JSON'
    required: false
    default: '{}'
-  aws-oidc-role-arn:
+  aws-oicd-role-arn:
    description: 'OIDC role arn to interract with S3'
    required: true

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ runs:
      with:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}${{ inputs.sanitizers == 'enabled' && '-sanitized' || '' }}-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}

    - name: Download Neon binaries for the previous release
      if: inputs.build_type != 'remote'
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ runs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon-previous
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}

    - name: Download compatibility snapshot
      if: inputs.build_type != 'remote'
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ runs:
        # The lack of compatibility snapshot (for example, for the new Postgres version)
        # shouldn't fail the whole job. Only relevant test should fail.
        skip-if-does-not-exist: true
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}

    - name: Checkout
      if: inputs.needs_postgres_source == 'true'
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ runs:
        TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
        BUILD_TYPE: ${{ inputs.build_type }}
        COMPATIBILITY_SNAPSHOT_DIR: /tmp/compatibility_snapshot_pg${{ inputs.pg_version }}
+        ALLOW_BACKWARD_COMPATIBILITY_BREAKAGE: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'backward compatibility breakage')
+        ALLOW_FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY_BREAKAGE: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'forward compatibility breakage')
        RERUN_FAILED: ${{ inputs.rerun_failed }}
        PG_VERSION: ${{ inputs.pg_version }}
        SANITIZERS: ${{ inputs.sanitizers }}
@@ -133,7 +135,6 @@ runs:
        fi

        PERF_REPORT_DIR="$(realpath test_runner/perf-report-local)"
-        echo "PERF_REPORT_DIR=${PERF_REPORT_DIR}" >> ${GITHUB_ENV}
        rm -rf $PERF_REPORT_DIR

        TEST_SELECTION="test_runner/${{ inputs.test_selection }}"
@@ -210,12 +211,11 @@ runs:
          --verbose \
          -rA $TEST_SELECTION $EXTRA_PARAMS

-    - name: Upload performance report
-      if: ${{ !cancelled() && inputs.save_perf_report == 'true' }}
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      run: |
-        export REPORT_FROM="${PERF_REPORT_DIR}"
-        scripts/generate_and_push_perf_report.sh
+        if [[ "${{ inputs.save_perf_report }}" == "true" ]]; then
+          export REPORT_FROM="$PERF_REPORT_DIR"
+          export REPORT_TO="$PLATFORM"
+          scripts/generate_and_push_perf_report.sh
+        fi

    - name: Upload compatibility snapshot
      # Note, that we use `github.base_ref` which is a target branch for a PR
@@ -228,13 +228,13 @@ runs:
        # The lack of compatibility snapshot shouldn't fail the job
        # (for example if we didn't run the test for non build-and-test workflow)
        skip-if-does-not-exist: true
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}

    - uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
        role-duration-seconds: 3600 # 1 hour should be more than enough to upload report

    - name: Upload test results
@@ -243,4 +243,4 @@ runs:
      with:
        report-dir: /tmp/test_output/allure/results
        unique-key: ${{ inputs.build_type }}-${{ inputs.pg_version }}-${{ runner.arch }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
--- a/.github/actions/save-coverage-data/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/save-coverage-data/action.yml
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ runs:
        name: coverage-data-artifact
        path: /tmp/coverage
        skip-if-does-not-exist: true # skip if there's no previous coverage to download
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}

    - name: Upload coverage data
      uses: ./.github/actions/upload
      with:
        name: coverage-data-artifact
        path: /tmp/coverage
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
--- a/.github/actions/upload/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/upload/action.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ inputs:
  prefix:
    description: "S3 prefix. Default is '${GITHUB_SHA}/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}/${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT}'"
    required: false
-  aws-oidc-role-arn:
+  aws-oicd-role-arn:
    description: "the OIDC role arn for aws auth"
    required: false
    default: ""
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ runs:
      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oidc-role-arn }}
+        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}
        role-duration-seconds: 3600

    - name: Upload artifact
--- a/.github/scripts/generate_image_maps.py
+++ b/.github/scripts/generate_image_maps.py
@@ -39,26 +39,20 @@ registries = {
    ],
 }

-release_branches = ["release", "release-proxy", "release-compute"]
-
 outputs: dict[str, dict[str, list[str]]] = {}

-target_tags = (
-    [target_tag, "latest"]
-    if branch == "main"
-    else [target_tag, "released"]
-    if branch in release_branches
-    else [target_tag]
+target_tags = [target_tag, "latest"] if branch == "main" else [target_tag]
+target_stages = (
+    ["dev", "prod"] if branch in ["release", "release-proxy", "release-compute"] else ["dev"]
 )
-target_stages = ["dev", "prod"] if branch in release_branches else ["dev"]

 for component_name, component_images in components.items():
    for stage in target_stages:
        outputs[f"{component_name}-{stage}"] = {
-            f"ghcr.io/neondatabase/{component_image}:{source_tag}": [
+            f"docker.io/neondatabase/{component_image}:{source_tag}": [
                f"{registry}/{component_image}:{tag}"
                for registry, tag in itertools.product(registries[stage], target_tags)
-                if not (registry == "ghcr.io/neondatabase" and tag == source_tag)
+                if not (registry == "docker.io/neondatabase" and tag == source_tag)
            ]
            for component_image in component_images
        }
--- a/.github/scripts/lint-release-pr.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/lint-release-pr.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ echo "Merge base of ${MAIN_BRANCH} and ${RELEASE_BRANCH}: ${MERGE_BASE}"
 LAST_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse HEAD)

 MERGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE=$(git log -1 --format=%s "${LAST_COMMIT}")
-EXPECTED_MESSAGE_REGEX="^$COMPONENT release [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} UTC$"
+EXPECTED_MESSAGE_REGEX="^$COMPONENT release [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$"

 if ! [[ "${MERGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" =~ ${EXPECTED_MESSAGE_REGEX} ]]; then
  report_error "Merge commit message does not match expected pattern: '<component> release YYYY-MM-DD'
--- a/.github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
+++ b/.github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ import json
 import os
 import subprocess

-RED = "\033[91m"
-RESET = "\033[0m"
-
 image_map = os.getenv("IMAGE_MAP")
 if not image_map:
    raise ValueError("IMAGE_MAP environment variable is not set")
@@ -14,32 +11,12 @@ try:
 except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
    raise ValueError("Failed to parse IMAGE_MAP as JSON") from e

-failures = []
+for source, targets in parsed_image_map.items():
+    for target in targets:
+        cmd = ["docker", "buildx", "imagetools", "create", "-t", target, source]
+        print(f"Running: {' '.join(cmd)}")
+        result = subprocess.run(cmd, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

-pending = [(source, target) for source, targets in parsed_image_map.items() for target in targets]
-
-while len(pending) > 0:
-    if len(failures) > 10:
-        print("Error: more than 10 failures!")
-        for failure in failures:
-            print(f'"{failure[0]}" failed with the following output:')
-            print(failure[1])
-        raise RuntimeError("Retry limit reached.")
-
-    source, target = pending.pop(0)
-    cmd = ["docker", "buildx", "imagetools", "create", "-t", target, source]
-    print(f"Running: {' '.join(cmd)}")
-    result = subprocess.run(cmd, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-
-    if result.returncode != 0:
-        failures.append((" ".join(cmd), result.stdout, target))
-        pending.append((source, target))
-        print(
-            f"{RED}[RETRY]{RESET} Push failed for {target}. Retrying... (failure count: {len(failures)})"
-        )
-        print(result.stdout)
-
-if len(failures) > 0 and (github_output := os.getenv("GITHUB_OUTPUT")):
-    failed_targets = [target for _, _, target in failures]
-    with open(github_output, "a") as f:
-        f.write(f"push_failures={json.dumps(failed_targets)}\n")
+        if result.returncode != 0:
+            print(f"Error: {result.stdout}")
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Command failed: {' '.join(cmd)}")
--- a/.github/workflows/_benchmarking_preparation.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_benchmarking_preparation.yml
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  setup-databases:
    permissions:
@@ -30,18 +27,13 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-prep-connstr
      run: |
@@ -66,10 +58,10 @@ jobs:

        echo "connstr=${CONNSTR}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -81,7 +73,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    # we create a table that has one row for each database that we want to restore with the status whether the restore is done
    - name: Create benchmark_restore_status table if it does not exist
--- a/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
@@ -28,21 +28,6 @@ on:
        required: false
        default: 'disabled'
        type: string
-      test-selection:
-        description: 'specification of selected test(s) to run'
-        required: false
-        default: ''
-        type: string
-      test-run-count:
-        description: 'number of runs to perform for selected tests'
-        required: false
-        default: 1
-        type: number
-      rerun-failed:
-        description: 'rerun failed tests to ignore flaky tests'
-        required: false
-        default: true
-        type: boolean

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -52,20 +37,17 @@ env:
  RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
  COPT: '-Werror'

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  build-neon:
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
    permissions:
      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
      contents: read
    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      # Raise locked memory limit for tokio-epoll-uring.
      # On 5.10 LTS kernels < 5.10.162 (and generally mainline kernels < 5.12),
      # io_uring will account the memory of the CQ and SQ as locked.
@@ -77,12 +59,7 @@ jobs:
      BUILD_TAG: ${{ inputs.build-tag }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -104,10 +81,11 @@ jobs:

      # Set some environment variables used by all the steps.
      #
-      # CARGO_FLAGS is extra options to pass to all "cargo" subcommands.
+      # CARGO_FLAGS is extra options to pass to "cargo build", "cargo test" etc.
+      #   It also includes --features, if any
      #
-      # CARGO_PROFILE is passed to "cargo build", "cargo test" etc, but not to
-      #   "cargo metadata", because it doesn't accept --release or --debug options.
+      # CARGO_FEATURES is passed to "cargo metadata". It is separate from CARGO_FLAGS,
+      #   because "cargo metadata" doesn't accept --release or --debug options
      #
      # We run tests with addtional features, that are turned off by default (e.g. in release builds), see
      # corresponding Cargo.toml files for their descriptions.
@@ -116,16 +94,16 @@ jobs:
          ARCH: ${{ inputs.arch }}
          SANITIZERS: ${{ inputs.sanitizers }}
        run: |
-          CARGO_FLAGS="--locked --features testing"
+          CARGO_FEATURES="--features testing"
          if [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "debug" && $ARCH == 'x64' ]]; then
            cov_prefix="scripts/coverage --profraw-prefix=$GITHUB_JOB --dir=/tmp/coverage run"
-            CARGO_PROFILE=""
+            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked"
          elif [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "debug" ]]; then
            cov_prefix=""
-            CARGO_PROFILE=""
+            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked"
          elif [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "release" ]]; then
            cov_prefix=""
-            CARGO_PROFILE="--release"
+            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked --release"
          fi
          if [[ $SANITIZERS == 'enabled' ]]; then
            make_vars="WITH_SANITIZERS=yes"
@@ -135,71 +113,67 @@ jobs:
          {
            echo "cov_prefix=${cov_prefix}"
            echo "make_vars=${make_vars}"
+            echo "CARGO_FEATURES=${CARGO_FEATURES}"
            echo "CARGO_FLAGS=${CARGO_FLAGS}"
-            echo "CARGO_PROFILE=${CARGO_PROFILE}"
            echo "CARGO_HOME=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.cargo"
          } >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
        id: cache_pg_14
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v14
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
        id: cache_pg_15
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v15
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
        id: cache_pg_16
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v16
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v17 build
        id: cache_pg_17
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v17
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v17_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

-      - name: Build all
-        # Note: the Makefile picks up BUILD_TYPE and CARGO_PROFILE from the env variables
-        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} all -j$(nproc) CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS="$CARGO_FLAGS"
+      - name: Build postgres v14
+        if: steps.cache_pg_14.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} postgres-v14 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v15
+        if: steps.cache_pg_15.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} postgres-v15 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v16
+        if: steps.cache_pg_16.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} postgres-v16 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v17
+        if: steps.cache_pg_17.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} postgres-v17 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build neon extensions
+        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} neon-pg-ext -j$(nproc)

      - name: Build walproposer-lib
        run: mold -run make ${make_vars} walproposer-lib -j$(nproc)

-      - name: Build unit tests
-        if: inputs.sanitizers != 'enabled'
+      - name: Run cargo build
+        env:
+          WITH_TESTS: ${{ inputs.sanitizers != 'enabled' && '--tests' || '' }}
        run: |
          export ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0
-          ${cov_prefix} mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE --tests
+          ${cov_prefix} mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --bins ${WITH_TESTS}

      # Do install *before* running rust tests because they might recompile the
      # binaries with different features/flags.
@@ -211,7 +185,7 @@ jobs:
          # Install target binaries
          mkdir -p /tmp/neon/bin/
          binaries=$(
-            ${cov_prefix} cargo metadata $CARGO_FLAGS --format-version=1 --no-deps |
+            ${cov_prefix} cargo metadata $CARGO_FEATURES --format-version=1 --no-deps |
            jq -r '.packages[].targets[] | select(.kind | index("bin")) | .name'
          )
          for bin in $binaries; do
@@ -228,7 +202,7 @@ jobs:
            mkdir -p /tmp/neon/test_bin/

            test_exe_paths=$(
-              ${cov_prefix} cargo test $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE --message-format=json --no-run |
+              ${cov_prefix} cargo test $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --message-format=json --no-run |
              jq -r '.executable | select(. != null)'
            )
            for bin in $test_exe_paths; do
@@ -247,7 +221,7 @@ jobs:
          fi

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-region: eu-central-1
          role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -262,25 +236,26 @@ jobs:
          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

          #nextest does not yet support running doctests
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES

          # run all non-pageserver tests
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE -E '!package(pageserver)'
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E '!package(pageserver)'

-          # run pageserver tests
-          # (When developing new pageserver features gated by config fields, we commonly make the rust
-          # unit tests sensitive to an environment variable NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_FEATURENAME.
-          # Then run the nextest invocation below for all relevant combinations. Singling out the
-          # pageserver tests from non-pageserver tests cuts down the time it takes for this CI step.)
-          NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=tokio-epoll-uring  \
-          ${cov_prefix} \
-          cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE  -E 'package(pageserver)'
+          # run pageserver tests with different settings
+          for get_vectored_concurrent_io in sequential sidecar-task; do
+            for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
+              NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_GET_VECTORED_CONCURRENT_IO=$get_vectored_concurrent_io \
+                NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine \
+                ${cov_prefix} \
+                cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES  -E 'package(pageserver)'
+            done
+          done

          # Run separate tests for real S3
          export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty
          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests
          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_s3)'
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_s3)'

          # Run separate tests for real Azure Blob Storage
          # XXX: replace region with `eu-central-1`-like region
@@ -289,17 +264,17 @@ jobs:
          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}"
          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER }}"
          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION }}"
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_PROFILE -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_azure)'
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_azure)'

      - name: Install postgres binaries
        run: |
          # Use tar to copy files matching the pattern, preserving the paths in the destionation
          tar c \
            pg_install/v* \
-            build/*/src/test/regress/*.so \
-            build/*/src/test/regress/pg_regress \
-            build/*/src/test/isolation/isolationtester \
-            build/*/src/test/isolation/pg_isolation_regress \
+            pg_install/build/*/src/test/regress/*.so \
+            pg_install/build/*/src/test/regress/pg_regress \
+            pg_install/build/*/src/test/isolation/isolationtester \
+            pg_install/build/*/src/test/isolation/pg_isolation_regress \
            | tar  x -C /tmp/neon

      - name: Upload Neon artifact
@@ -307,7 +282,7 @@ jobs:
        with:
          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}${{ inputs.sanitizers == 'enabled' && '-sanitized' || '' }}-artifact
          path: /tmp/neon
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

      - name: Check diesel schema
        if: inputs.build-type == 'release' && inputs.arch == 'x64'
@@ -343,31 +318,26 @@ jobs:
      contents: read
      statuses: write
    needs: [ build-neon ]
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large-metal')) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      # for changed limits, see comments on `options:` earlier in this file
      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(format('{{"include":{0}}}', inputs.test-cfg)) }}
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

      - name: Pytest regression tests
        continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.lfc_state == 'with-lfc' && inputs.build-type == 'debug' }}
        uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-        timeout-minutes: ${{ (inputs.build-type == 'release' && inputs.sanitizers != 'enabled') && 75 || 180 }}
+        timeout-minutes: ${{ inputs.sanitizers != 'enabled' && 75 || 180 }}
        with:
          build_type: ${{ inputs.build-type }}
          test_selection: regress
@@ -375,20 +345,20 @@ jobs:
          run_with_real_s3: true
          real_s3_bucket: neon-github-ci-tests
          real_s3_region: eu-central-1
-          rerun_failed: ${{ inputs.rerun-failed }}
+          rerun_failed: true
          pg_version: ${{ matrix.pg_version }}
          sanitizers: ${{ inputs.sanitizers }}
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
          # `--session-timeout` is equal to (timeout-minutes - 10 minutes) * 60 seconds.
          # Attempt to stop tests gracefully to generate test reports
          # until they are forcibly stopped by the stricter `timeout-minutes` limit.
-          extra_params: --session-timeout=${{ (inputs.build-type == 'release' && inputs.sanitizers != 'enabled') && 3000 || 10200 }} --count=${{ inputs.test-run-count }}
-                        ${{ inputs.test-selection != '' && format('-k "{0}"', inputs.test-selection) || '' }}
+          extra_params: --session-timeout=${{ inputs.sanitizers != 'enabled' && 3000 || 10200 }}
        env:
          TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}
          CHECK_ONDISK_DATA_COMPATIBILITY: nonempty
          BUILD_TAG: ${{ inputs.build-tag }}
          PAGESERVER_VIRTUAL_FILE_IO_ENGINE: tokio-epoll-uring
+          PAGESERVER_GET_VECTORED_CONCURRENT_IO: sidecar-task
          USE_LFC: ${{ matrix.lfc_state == 'with-lfc' && 'true' || 'false' }}

      # Temporary disable this step until we figure out why it's so flaky
--- a/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-python.yml
@@ -12,39 +12,21 @@ defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  check-codestyle-python:
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
-
-    permissions:
-      packages: read
-
    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Cache poetry deps
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
          key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

--- a/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-rust.yml
@@ -23,38 +23,25 @@ jobs:
  check-codestyle-rust:
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        arch: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.archs) }}
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'small-arm64' || 'small')) }}
-
-    permissions:
-      packages: read
+        arch: ${{ fromJson(inputs.archs) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'small-arm64' || 'small')) }}

    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

      - name: Cache cargo deps
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
            !~/.cargo/registry/src
--- a/.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+name: Create Release PR
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      component-name:
+        description: 'Component name'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      source-branch:
+        description: 'Source branch'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+    secrets:
+      ci-access-token:
+        description: 'CI access token'
+        required: true
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}
+
+jobs:
+  create-release-branch:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: write # for `git push`
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        ref: ${{ inputs.source-branch }}
+        fetch-depth: 0
+
+    - name: Set variables
+      id: vars
+      env:
+        COMPONENT_NAME: ${{ inputs.component-name }}
+        RELEASE_BRANCH: >-
+          ${{
+            false
+            || inputs.component-name == 'Storage' && 'release'
+            || inputs.component-name == 'Proxy' && 'release-proxy'
+            || inputs.component-name == 'Compute' && 'release-compute'
+          }}
+      run: |
+        today=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
+        echo "title=${COMPONENT_NAME} release ${today}" | tee -a ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
+        echo "rc-branch=rc/${RELEASE_BRANCH}/${today}"  | tee -a ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
+        echo "release-branch=${RELEASE_BRANCH}"         | tee -a ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
+
+    - name: Configure git
+      run: |
+        git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+        git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+    - name: Create RC branch
+      env:
+        RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.release-branch }}
+        RC_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.rc-branch }}
+        TITLE: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.title }}
+      run: |
+        git switch -c "${RC_BRANCH}"
+
+        # Manually create a merge commit on the current branch, keeping the
+        # tree and setting the parents to the current HEAD and the HEAD of the
+        # release branch. This commit is what we'll fast-forward the release
+        # branch to when merging the release branch.
+        # For details on why, look at
+        # https://docs.neon.build/overview/repositories/neon.html#background-on-commit-history-of-release-prs
+        current_tree=$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^{tree}')
+        release_head=$(git rev-parse "origin/${RELEASE_BRANCH}")
+        current_head=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+        merge_commit=$(git commit-tree -p "${current_head}" -p "${release_head}" -m "${TITLE}" "${current_tree}")
+
+        # Fast-forward the current branch to the newly created merge_commit
+        git merge --ff-only ${merge_commit}
+
+        git push origin "${RC_BRANCH}"
+
+    - name: Create a PR into ${{ steps.vars.outputs.release-branch }}
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ci-access-token }}
+        RC_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.rc-branch }}
+        RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.release-branch }}
+        TITLE: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.title }}
+      run: |
+        gh pr create --title "${TITLE}" \
+                     --body "" \
+                     --head "${RC_BRANCH}" \
+                     --base "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
--- a/.github/workflows/_meta.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_meta.yml
@@ -5,16 +5,10 @@ on:
      github-event-name:
        type: string
        required: true
-      github-event-json:
-        type: string
-        required: true
    outputs:
      build-tag:
        description: "Tag for the current workflow run"
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.build-tag }}
-      release-tag:
-        description: "Tag for the release if this is an RC PR run"
-        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.release-tag }}
      previous-storage-release:
        description: "Tag of the last storage release"
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.storage }}
@@ -30,9 +24,6 @@ on:
      release-pr-run-id:
        description: "Only available if `run-kind in [storage-release, proxy-release, compute-release]`. Contains the run ID of the `Build and Test` workflow, assuming one with the current commit can be found."
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.release-pr-run-id }}
-      sha:
-        description: "github.event.pull_request.head.sha on release PRs, github.sha otherwise"
-        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.sha }}

 permissions: {}

@@ -44,22 +35,19 @@ jobs:
  tags:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    outputs:
-      build-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.build-tag }}
-      release-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.release-tag }}
+      build-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.tag }}
      compute: ${{ steps.previous-releases.outputs.compute }}
      proxy: ${{ steps.previous-releases.outputs.proxy }}
      storage: ${{ steps.previous-releases.outputs.storage }}
      run-kind: ${{ steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind }}
      release-pr-run-id: ${{ steps.release-pr-run-id.outputs.release-pr-run-id }}
-      sha: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.sha }}
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      # Need `fetch-depth: 0` to count the number of commits in the branch
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Get run kind
        id: run-kind
@@ -81,23 +69,6 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          echo "run-kind=$RUN_KIND" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT

-      - name: Get the right SHA
-        id: sha
-        env:
-          SHA: >
-            ${{
-              contains(fromJSON('["storage-rc-pr", "proxy-rc-pr", "compute-rc-pr"]'), steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind)
-              && fromJSON(inputs.github-event-json).pull_request.head.sha
-              || github.sha
-            }}
-        run: |
-          echo "sha=$SHA" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          ref: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.sha }}
-
      - name: Get build tag
        id: build-tag
        env:
@@ -108,16 +79,16 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          case $RUN_KIND in
          push-main)
-            echo "build-tag=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          storage-release)
-            echo "build-tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          proxy-release)
-            echo "build-tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          compute-release)
-            echo "build-tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          pr|storage-rc-pr|compute-rc-pr|proxy-rc-pr)
            BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID=$(gh api --paginate \
@@ -125,21 +96,10 @@ jobs:
              -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
              "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs?head_sha=${CURRENT_SHA}&branch=${CURRENT_BRANCH}" \
              | jq '[.workflow_runs[] | select(.name == "Build and Test")][0].id // ("Error: No matching workflow run found." | halt_error(1))')
-            echo "build-tag=$BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            case $RUN_KIND in
-            storage-rc-pr)
-              echo "release-tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            proxy-rc-pr)
-              echo "release-tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            compute-rc-pr)
-              echo "release-tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            esac
+            echo "tag=$BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          workflow-dispatch)
-            echo "build-tag=$GITHUB_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=$GITHUB_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          *)
            echo "Unexpected RUN_KIND ('${RUN_KIND}'), failing to assign build-tag!"
@@ -160,10 +120,10 @@ jobs:

      - name: Get the release PR run ID
        id: release-pr-run-id
-        if: ${{ contains(fromJSON('["storage-release", "compute-release", "proxy-release"]'), steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind) }}
+        if: ${{ contains(fromJson('["storage-release", "compute-release", "proxy-release"]'), steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind) }}
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          CURRENT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
+          CURRENT_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
        run: |
-          RELEASE_PR_RUN_ID=$(gh api "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs?head_sha=$CURRENT_SHA" | jq '[.workflow_runs[] | select(.name == "Build and Test") | select(.head_branch | test("^rc/release.*$"; "s"))] | first | .id // ("Failed to find Build and Test run from  RC PR!" | halt_error(1))')
+          RELEASE_PR_RUN_ID=$(gh api "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs?head_sha=$CURRENT_SHA" | jq '[.workflow_runs[] | select(.name == "Build and Test") | select(.head_branch | test("^rc/release(-(proxy)|(compute))?/[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$"; "s"))] | first | .id // ("Faied to find Build and Test run from  RC PR!" | halt_error(1))')
          echo "release-pr-run-id=$RELEASE_PR_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
--- a/.github/workflows/_push-to-container-registry.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_push-to-container-registry.yml
@@ -49,12 +49,7 @@ jobs:
      id-token: write  # Required for aws/azure login
      packages: write  # required for pushing to GHCR
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          sparse-checkout: .github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
@@ -64,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        if: contains(inputs.image-map, 'amazonaws.com/')
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-region: "${{ inputs.aws-region }}"
          role-to-assume: "arn:aws:iam::${{ inputs.aws-account-id }}:role/${{ inputs.aws-role-to-assume }}"
@@ -72,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Login to ECR
        if: contains(inputs.image-map, 'amazonaws.com/')
-        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@062b18b96a7aff071d4dc91bc00c4c1a7945b076 # v2.0.1
+        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v2
        with:
          registries: "${{ inputs.aws-account-id }}"

@@ -91,38 +86,19 @@ jobs:

      - name: Login to GHCR
        if: contains(inputs.image-map, 'ghcr.io/')
-        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          username: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Log in to Docker Hub
-        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

      - name: Copy docker images to target registries
-        id: push
        run: python3 .github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
        env:
          IMAGE_MAP: ${{ inputs.image-map }}
-
-      - name: Notify Slack if container image pushing fails
-        if: steps.push.outputs.push_failures || failure()
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@485a9d42d3a73031f12ec201c457e2162c45d02d # v2.0.0
-        with:
-          method: chat.postMessage
-          token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
-          payload: |
-            channel: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_DEVPROD_STREAM }}
-            text: >
-              *Container image pushing ${{
-                steps.push.outcome == 'failure' && 'failed completely' || 'succeeded with some retries'
-              }}* in
-              <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|GitHub Run>
-
-              ${{ steps.push.outputs.push_failures && format(
-                '*Failed targets:*\n• {0}', join(fromJson(steps.push.outputs.push_failures), '\n• ')
-              ) || '' }}
--- a/.github/workflows/actionlint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/actionlint.yml
@@ -26,13 +26,8 @@ jobs:
    needs: [ check-permissions ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-      - uses: reviewdog/action-actionlint@a5524e1c19e62881d79c1f1b9b6f09f16356e281 # v1.65.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: reviewdog/action-actionlint@v1
        env:
          # SC2046 - Quote this to prevent word splitting. - https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2046
          # SC2086 - Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. - https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2086
--- a/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - run: gh pr --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" edit "${PR_NUMBER}" --remove-label "approved-for-ci-run"

  create-or-update-pr-for-ci-run:
@@ -68,14 +63,9 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - run: gh pr --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" edit "${PR_NUMBER}" --remove-label "approved-for-ci-run"

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
          token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
@@ -163,11 +153,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Close PR and delete `ci-run/pr-${{ env.PR_NUMBER }}` branch
        run: |
          CLOSED="$(gh pr --repo ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY} list --head ${BRANCH} --json 'closed' --jq '.[].closed')"
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
@@ -53,77 +53,6 @@ concurrency:
  cancel-in-progress: true

 jobs:
-  cleanup:
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-    env:
-      ORG_ID: org-solitary-dew-09443886
-      LIMIT: 100
-      SEARCH: "GITHUB_RUN_ID="
-      BASE_URL: https://console-stage.neon.build/api/v2
-      DRY_RUN: "false"  # Set to "true" to just test out the workflow
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-    - name: Cleanup inactive Neon projects left over from prior runs
-      env:
-        API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-      run: |
-        set -euo pipefail
-
-        NOW=$(date -u +%s)
-        DAYS_AGO=$((NOW - 5 * 86400))
-
-        REQUEST_URL="$BASE_URL/projects?limit=$LIMIT&search=$(printf '%s' "$SEARCH" | jq -sRr @uri)&org_id=$ORG_ID"
-
-        echo "Requesting project list from:"
-        echo "$REQUEST_URL"
-
-        response=$(curl -s -X GET "$REQUEST_URL" \
-          --header "Accept: application/json" \
-          --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-          --header "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" )
-
-        echo "Response:"
-        echo "$response" | jq .
-
-        projects_to_delete=$(echo "$response" | jq --argjson cutoff "$DAYS_AGO" '
-          .projects[]
-          | select(.compute_last_active_at != null)
-          | select((.compute_last_active_at | fromdateiso8601) < $cutoff)
-          | {id, name, compute_last_active_at}
-        ')
-
-        if [ -z "$projects_to_delete" ]; then
-          echo "No projects eligible for deletion."
-          exit 0
-        fi
-
-        echo "Projects that will be deleted:"
-        echo "$projects_to_delete" | jq -r '.id'
-
-        if [ "$DRY_RUN" = "false" ]; then
-          echo "$projects_to_delete" | jq -r '.id' | while read -r project_id; do
-            echo "Deleting project: $project_id"
-            curl -s -X DELETE "$BASE_URL/projects/$project_id" \
-              --header "Accept: application/json" \
-              --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-              --header "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" 
-          done
-        else
-          echo "Dry run enabled — no projects were deleted."
-        fi
  bench:
    if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == 'false' || github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == null }}
    permissions:
@@ -158,22 +87,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.RUNNER }}
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary on Azure runners
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -185,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Create Neon Project
      id: create-neon-project
@@ -203,7 +127,7 @@ jobs:
        run_in_parallel: false
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
        # Set --sparse-ordering option of pytest-order plugin
        # to ensure tests are running in order of appears in the file.
        # It's important for test_perf_pgbench.py::test_pgbench_remote_* tests
@@ -236,11 +160,11 @@ jobs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -266,22 +190,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -293,8 +212,8 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+    
    - name: Verify that cumulative statistics are preserved
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
      with:
@@ -304,7 +223,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 3600
        pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -326,22 +245,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -353,7 +267,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Run Logical Replication benchmarks
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
@@ -364,7 +278,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 5400
        pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -381,7 +295,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 5400
        pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -393,14 +307,14 @@ jobs:
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
        store-test-results-into-db: true
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}

    # Post both success and failure to the Slack channel
    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && !cancelled() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06T9AMNDQQ" # on-call-compute-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -432,18 +346,13 @@ jobs:
      tpch-compare-matrix: ${{ steps.tpch-compare-matrix.outputs.matrix }}

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Generate matrix for pgbench benchmark
      id: pgbench-compare-matrix
      run: |
        region_id_default=${{ env.DEFAULT_REGION_ID }}
        runner_default='["self-hosted", "us-east-2", "x64"]'
        runner_azure='["self-hosted", "eastus2", "x64"]'
-        image_default="ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm"
+        image_default="neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm"
        matrix='{
          "pg_version" : [
            16
@@ -459,18 +368,18 @@ jobs:
          "db_size": [ "10gb" ],
          "runner": ['"$runner_default"'],
          "image": [ "'"$image_default"'" ],
-          "include": [{ "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-sharding-reuse", "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               }]
+          "include": [{ "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-sharding-reuse", "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" }]
        }'

        if [ "$(date +%A)" = "Saturday" ] || [ ${RUN_AWS_RDS_AND_AURORA} = "true" ]; then
@@ -532,7 +441,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.pgbench-compare-matrix)}}
+      matrix: ${{fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.pgbench-compare-matrix)}}

    env:
      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "60m"
@@ -548,23 +457,18 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ matrix.image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    # Increase timeout to 8h, default timeout is 6h
    timeout-minutes: 480

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -576,10 +480,10 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Create Neon Project
-      if: contains(fromJSON('["neonvm-captest-new", "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables", "neonvm-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-new"]'), matrix.platform)
+      if: contains(fromJson('["neonvm-captest-new", "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables", "neonvm-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-new"]'), matrix.platform)
      id: create-neon-project
      uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-create
      with:
@@ -619,7 +523,7 @@ jobs:
    # without (neonvm-captest-new)
    # and with (neonvm-captest-new-many-tables) many relations in the database
    - name: Create many relations before the run
-      if: contains(fromJSON('["neonvm-captest-new-many-tables"]'), matrix.platform)
+      if: contains(fromJson('["neonvm-captest-new-many-tables"]'), matrix.platform)
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
      with:
        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
@@ -628,7 +532,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_perf_many_relations
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -644,7 +548,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_pgbench_remote_init
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -659,7 +563,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_pgbench_remote_simple_update
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -674,7 +578,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_pgbench_remote_select_only
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -692,11 +596,11 @@ jobs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -738,22 +642,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.RUNNER }}
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -765,7 +664,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-connstr
@@ -797,7 +696,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_pgvector_indexing
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -812,7 +711,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -823,11 +722,11 @@ jobs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -854,7 +753,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}

    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
@@ -868,10 +767,10 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    # Increase timeout to 12h, default timeout is 6h
@@ -879,15 +778,10 @@ jobs:
    timeout-minutes: 720

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -899,7 +793,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-connstr
@@ -942,7 +836,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 43200 -k test_clickbench
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -956,11 +850,11 @@ jobs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -986,7 +880,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.tpch-compare-matrix) }}
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.tpch-compare-matrix) }}

    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
@@ -998,22 +892,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -1025,7 +914,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Get Connstring Secret Name
      run: |
@@ -1074,7 +963,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_tpch
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -1086,11 +975,11 @@ jobs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -1110,7 +999,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}

    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
@@ -1122,22 +1011,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -1149,7 +1033,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-connstr
@@ -1192,7 +1076,7 @@ jobs:
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_user_examples
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
@@ -1203,11 +1087,11 @@ jobs:
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on:
        value: ${{ jobs.check-image.outputs.tag }}
      image:
        description: "build-tools image"
-        value: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ jobs.check-image.outputs.tag }}
+        value: neondatabase/build-tools:${{ jobs.check-image.outputs.tag }}

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -49,22 +49,8 @@ jobs:
      everything: ${{ steps.set-more-variables.outputs.everything }}
      found: ${{ steps.set-more-variables.outputs.found }}

-    permissions:
-      packages: read
-
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set variables
        id: set-variables
@@ -84,12 +70,12 @@ jobs:
        env:
          IMAGE_TAG: ${{ steps.set-variables.outputs.image-tag }}
          EVERYTHING: |
-            ${{ contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'x64') &&
-                contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'arm64') &&
-                contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bullseye') &&
-                contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bookworm') }}
+            ${{ contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'x64') &&
+                contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'arm64') &&
+                contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bullseye') &&
+                contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bookworm') }}
        run: |
-          if docker manifest inspect ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}; then
+          if docker manifest inspect neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}; then
            found=true
          else
            found=false
@@ -104,45 +90,31 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      matrix:
-        arch: ${{ fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.archs) }}
-        debian: ${{ fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.debians) }}
+        arch: ${{ fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.archs) }}
+        debian: ${{ fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.debians) }}

-    permissions:
-      packages: write
-
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/set-docker-config-dir@6094485bf440001c94a94a3f9e221e81ff6b6193
-      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@b5ca514318bd6ebac0fb2aedd5d36ec1b5c232a2 # v3.10.0
+      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
        with:
          cache-binary: false

-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          registry: cache.neon.build
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/build-push-action@471d1dc4e07e5cdedd4c2171150001c434f0b7a4 # v6.15.0
+      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
        with:
          file: build-tools.Dockerfile
          context: .
@@ -154,49 +126,35 @@ jobs:
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/build-tools:cache-${{ matrix.debian }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/build-tools:cache-{0}-{1},mode=max', matrix.debian, matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
-            ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ needs.check-image.outputs.tag }}-${{ matrix.debian }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
+            neondatabase/build-tools:${{ needs.check-image.outputs.tag }}-${{ matrix.debian }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

  merge-images:
    needs: [ check-image, build-image ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

-    permissions:
-      packages: write
-
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
      - name: Create multi-arch image
        env:
          DEFAULT_DEBIAN_VERSION: bookworm
-          ARCHS: ${{ join(fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.archs), ' ') }}
-          DEBIANS: ${{ join(fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.debians), ' ') }}
+          ARCHS: ${{ join(fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.archs), ' ') }}
+          DEBIANS: ${{ join(fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.debians), ' ') }}
          EVERYTHING: ${{ needs.check-image.outputs.everything }}
          IMAGE_TAG: ${{ needs.check-image.outputs.tag }}
        run: |
          for debian in ${DEBIANS}; do
-            tags=("-t" "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}")
+            tags=("-t" "neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}")

            if [ "${EVERYTHING}" == "true" ] && [ "${debian}" == "${DEFAULT_DEBIAN_VERSION}" ]; then
-              tags+=("-t" "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}")
+              tags+=("-t" "neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}")
            fi

            for arch in ${ARCHS}; do
-              tags+=("ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}-${arch}")
+              tags+=("neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}-${arch}")
            done

            docker buildx imagetools create "${tags[@]}"
--- a/.github/workflows/build-macos.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-macos.yml
@@ -28,33 +28,26 @@ env:
 # - You can connect up to four levels of workflows
 # - You can call a maximum of 20 unique reusable workflows from a single workflow file.
 # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/sharing-automations/reusing-workflows#limitations
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  build-pgxn:
    if: |
-      inputs.pg_versions != '[]' || inputs.rebuild_everything ||
-      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos')  ||
-      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
-      github.ref_name == 'main'
+      (inputs.pg_versions != '[]' || inputs.rebuild_everything) && (
+        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos')  ||
+        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
+        github.ref_name == 'main'
+      )
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: macos-15
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        postgres-version: ${{ inputs.rebuild_everything && fromJSON('["v14", "v15", "v16", "v17"]') || fromJSON(inputs.pg_versions) }}
+        postgres-version: ${{ inputs.rebuild_everything && fromJson('["v14", "v15", "v16", "v17"]') || fromJSON(inputs.pg_versions) }}
    env:
      # Use release build only, to have less debug info around
      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
      BUILD_TYPE: release
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout main repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set pg ${{ matrix.postgres-version }} for caching
        id: pg_rev
@@ -62,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Cache postgres ${{ matrix.postgres-version }} build
        id: cache_pg
-        uses: actions/cache@5a3ec84eff668545956fd18022155c47e93e2684 # v4.2.3
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: pg_install/${{ matrix.postgres-version }}
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-${{ matrix.postgres-version }}-${{ steps.pg_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
@@ -99,21 +92,13 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          make postgres-headers-${{ matrix.postgres-version }} -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)

-      - name: Upload "pg_install/${{ matrix.postgres-version }}" artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
-        with:
-          name: pg_install--${{ matrix.postgres-version }}
-          path: pg_install/${{ matrix.postgres-version }}
-          # The artifact is supposed to be used by the next job in the same workflow,
-          # so there’s no need to store it for too long.
-          retention-days: 1
-
  build-walproposer-lib:
    if: |
-      contains(inputs.pg_versions, 'v17') || inputs.rebuild_everything ||
-      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos')  ||
-      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
-      github.ref_name == 'main'
+      (inputs.pg_versions != '[]' || inputs.rebuild_everything) && (
+        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos')  ||
+        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
+        github.ref_name == 'main'
+      )
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: macos-15
    needs: [build-pgxn]
@@ -122,29 +107,25 @@ jobs:
      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
      BUILD_TYPE: release
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout main repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set pg v17 for caching
        id: pg_rev
        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v17) | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"

-      - name: Download "pg_install/v17" artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+      - name: Cache postgres v17 build
+        id: cache_pg
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          name: pg_install--v17
          path: pg_install/v17
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

      - name: Cache walproposer-lib
        id: cache_walproposer_lib
-        uses: actions/cache@5a3ec84eff668545956fd18022155c47e93e2684 # v4.2.3
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          path: build/walproposer-lib
+          path: pg_install/build/walproposer-lib
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-walproposer_lib-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

      - name: Checkout submodule vendor/postgres-v17
@@ -169,21 +150,13 @@ jobs:
        run:
          make walproposer-lib -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)

-      - name: Upload "build/walproposer-lib" artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
-        with:
-          name: build--walproposer-lib
-          path: build/walproposer-lib
-          # The artifact is supposed to be used by the next job in the same workflow,
-          # so there’s no need to store it for too long.
-          retention-days: 1
-
  cargo-build:
    if: |
-      inputs.pg_versions != '[]' || inputs.rebuild_rust_code || inputs.rebuild_everything ||
-      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos') ||
-      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
-      github.ref_name == 'main'
+      (inputs.pg_versions != '[]' || inputs.rebuild_rust_code || inputs.rebuild_everything) && (
+        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos')  ||
+        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
+        github.ref_name == 'main'
+      )
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: macos-15
    needs: [build-pgxn, build-walproposer-lib]
@@ -192,54 +165,51 @@ jobs:
      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
      BUILD_TYPE: release
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout main repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

-      - name: Download "pg_install/v14" artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+      - name: Set pg v14 for caching
+        id: pg_rev_v14
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v14) | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+      - name: Set pg v15 for caching
+        id: pg_rev_v15
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v15) | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+      - name: Set pg v16 for caching
+        id: pg_rev_v16
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v16) | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+      - name: Set pg v17 for caching
+        id: pg_rev_v17
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v17) | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
+        id: cache_pg
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          name: pg_install--v14
          path: pg_install/v14
-
-      - name: Download "pg_install/v15" artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v14-${{ steps.pg_rev_v14.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
+        id: cache_pg_v15
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          name: pg_install--v15
          path: pg_install/v15
-
-      - name: Download "pg_install/v16" artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v15-${{ steps.pg_rev_v15.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
+        id: cache_pg_v16
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          name: pg_install--v16
          path: pg_install/v16
-
-      - name: Download "pg_install/v17" artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v16-${{ steps.pg_rev_v16.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+      - name: Cache postgres v17 build
+        id: cache_pg_v17
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          name: pg_install--v17
          path: pg_install/v17
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev_v17.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

-      - name: Download "build/walproposer-lib" artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
-        with:
-          name: build--walproposer-lib
-          path: build/walproposer-lib
-
-      # `actions/download-artifact` doesn't preserve permissions:
-      # https://github.com/actions/download-artifact?tab=readme-ov-file#permission-loss
-      - name: Make pg_install/v*/bin/* executable
-        run: |
-          chmod +x pg_install/v*/bin/*
-
-      - name: Cache cargo deps
-        uses: actions/cache@5a3ec84eff668545956fd18022155c47e93e2684 # v4.2.3
+      - name: Cache cargo deps (only for v17)
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
@@ -248,6 +218,13 @@ jobs:
            target
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('./Cargo.lock') }}-${{ hashFiles('./rust-toolchain.toml') }}-rust

+      - name: Cache walproposer-lib
+        id: cache_walproposer_lib
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/build/walproposer-lib
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-walproposer_lib-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev_v17.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+
      - name: Install build dependencies
        run: |
          brew install flex bison openssl protobuf icu4c
@@ -257,8 +234,8 @@ jobs:
          echo 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/lib' >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl@3/include' >> $GITHUB_ENV

-      - name: Run cargo build
+      - name: Run cargo build (only for v17)
        run: cargo build --all --release -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)

-      - name: Check that no warnings are produced
+      - name: Check that no warnings are produced (only for v17)
        run: ./run_clippy.sh
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_run_selected_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_run_selected_test.yml
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and Run Selected Test
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      test-selection:
-        description: 'Specification of selected test(s), as accepted by pytest -k'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      run-count:
-        description: 'Number of test runs to perform'
-        required: true
-        type: number
-      archs:
-        description: 'Archs to run tests on, e. g.: ["x64", "arm64"]'
-        default: '["x64"]'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      build-types:
-        description: 'Build types to run tests on, e. g.: ["debug", "release"]'
-        default: '["release"]'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      pg-versions:
-        description: 'Postgres versions to use for testing,  e.g,: [{"pg_version":"v16"}, {"pg_version":"v17"}])'
-        default: '[{"pg_version":"v17"}]'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-env:
-  RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
-  COPT: '-Werror'
-
-jobs:
-  meta:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/_meta.yml
-    with:
-      github-event-name: ${{ github.event_name }}
-      github-event-json: ${{ toJSON(github.event) }}
-
-  build-and-test-locally:
-    needs: [ meta ]
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        arch: ${{ fromJson(inputs.archs) }}
-        build-type: ${{ fromJson(inputs.build-types) }}
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
-    with:
-      arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      build-tools-image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      build-tag: ${{ needs.meta.outputs.build-tag }}
-      build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
-      test-cfg: ${{ inputs.pg-versions }}
-      test-selection: ${{ inputs.test-selection }}
-      test-run-count: ${{ fromJson(inputs.run-count) }}
-      rerun-failed: false
-    secrets: inherit
-
-  create-test-report:
-    needs: [ build-and-test-locally ]
-    if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-      statuses: write
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    outputs:
-      report-url: ${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}
-
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Create Allure report
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        id: create-allure-report
-        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
-        with:
-          store-test-results-into-db: true
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        env:
-          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_DEV }}
-
-      - uses: actions/github-script@v7
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        with:
-          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
-          retries: 5
-          script: |
-            const report = {
-              reportUrl:     "${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}",
-              reportJsonUrl: "${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-json-url }}",
-            }
-
-            const coverage = {}
-
-            const script = require("./scripts/comment-test-report.js")
-            await script({
-              github,
-              context,
-              fetch,
-              report,
-              coverage,
-            })
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test_fully.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test_fully.yml
@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and Test Fully
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #          ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #          │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #          │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #          │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #          │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron:   '0 3 * * *' # run once a day, timezone is utc
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-concurrency:
-  # Allow only one workflow per any non-`main` branch.
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && github.sha || 'anysha' }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
-  COPT: '-Werror'
-
-jobs:
-  tag:
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
-    container: ${{ vars.NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }}.dkr.ecr.${{ vars.AWS_ECR_REGION }}.amazonaws.com/base:pinned
-    outputs:
-      build-tag: ${{steps.build-tag.outputs.tag}}
-
-    steps:
-      # Need `fetch-depth: 0` to count the number of commits in the branch
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Get build tag
-        run: |
-          echo run:$GITHUB_RUN_ID
-          echo ref:$GITHUB_REF_NAME
-          echo rev:$(git rev-list --count HEAD)
-          if [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "main" ]]; then
-            echo "tag=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          elif [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "release" ]]; then
-            echo "tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          elif [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "release-proxy" ]]; then
-            echo "tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          elif [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "release-compute" ]]; then
-            echo "tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          else
-            echo "GITHUB_REF_NAME (value '$GITHUB_REF_NAME') is not set to either 'main' or 'release', 'release-proxy', 'release-compute'"
-            echo "tag=$GITHUB_RUN_ID" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          fi
-        shell: bash
-        id: build-tag
-
-  build-build-tools-image:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
-    secrets: inherit
-
-  build-and-test-locally:
-    needs: [ tag, build-build-tools-image ]
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        arch: [ x64, arm64 ]
-        build-type: [ debug, release ]
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
-    with:
-      arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      build-tools-image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
-      build-tag: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
-      build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
-      rerun-failed: false
-      test-cfg: '[{"pg_version":"v14", "lfc_state": "with-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v15", "lfc_state": "with-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v16", "lfc_state": "with-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v17", "lfc_state": "with-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v14", "lfc_state": "without-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v15", "lfc_state": "without-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v16", "lfc_state": "without-lfc"},
-                  {"pg_version":"v17", "lfc_state": "withouts-lfc"}]'
-    secrets: inherit
-
-
-  create-test-report:
-    needs: [ build-and-test-locally, build-build-tools-image ]
-    if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-      statuses: write
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    outputs:
-      report-url: ${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}
-
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
-    container:
-      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Create Allure report
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        id: create-allure-report
-        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
-        with:
-          store-test-results-into-db: true
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        env:
-          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}
-
-      - uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        with:
-          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
-          retries: 5
-          script: |
-            const report = {
-              reportUrl:     "${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}",
-              reportJsonUrl: "${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-json-url }}",
-            }
-
-            const coverage = {}
-
-            const script = require("./scripts/comment-test-report.js")
-            await script({
-              github,
-              context,
-              fetch,
-              report,
-              coverage,
-            })
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test_with_sanitizers.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test_with_sanitizers.yml
@@ -33,12 +33,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      # Need `fetch-depth: 0` to count the number of commits in the branch
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

@@ -79,7 +74,6 @@ jobs:
      build-tools-image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      build-tag: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
      build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
-      rerun-failed: false
      test-cfg: '[{"pg_version":"v17"}]'
      sanitizers: enabled
    secrets: inherit
@@ -100,17 +94,12 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Create Allure report
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
@@ -118,11 +107,11 @@ jobs:
        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
        with:
          store-test-results-into-db: true
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
        env:
          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}

-      - uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
+      - uses: actions/github-script@v7
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
        with:
          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
--- a/.github/workflows/cargo-deny.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cargo-deny.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 10 * * *'

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  cargo-deny:
    strategy:
@@ -27,24 +24,16 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [self-hosted, small]

-    permissions:
-      packages: read
-
    container:
-      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image || 'ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned' }}
+      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image || 'neondatabase/build-tools:pinned' }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ matrix.ref }}

@@ -56,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@485a9d42d3a73031f12ec201c457e2162c45d02d # v2.0.0
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2
        with:
          method: chat.postMessage
          token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/check-permissions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-permissions.yml
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@ jobs:
  check-permissions:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Disallow CI runs on PRs from forks
      if: |
        inputs.github-event-name  == 'pull_request' &&
--- a/.github/workflows/cleanup-caches-by-a-branch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cleanup-caches-by-a-branch.yml
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@ jobs:
  cleanup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Cleanup
        run: |
          gh extension install actions/gh-actions-cache
--- a/.github/workflows/cloud-extensions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cloud-extensions.yml
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-name: Cloud Extensions Test
-on:
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #          ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #          │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #          │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #          │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #          │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron:  '45 1 * * *' # run once a day, timezone is utc
-  workflow_dispatch: # adds ability to run this manually
-    inputs:
-      region_id:
-        description: 'Project region id. If not set, the default region will be used'
-        required: false
-        default: 'aws-us-east-2'
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-permissions:
-  id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-  statuses: write
-  contents: write
-
-jobs:
-  regress:
-    env:
-      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
-      TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
-      BUILD_TYPE: remote
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        pg-version: [16, 17]
-
-    runs-on: us-east-2
-    container:
-      # We use the neon-test-extensions image here as it contains the source code for the extensions.
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-v${{ matrix.pg-version }}:latest
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Evaluate the settings
-        id: project-settings
-        run: |
-          if [[ $((${{ matrix.pg-version }})) -lt 17 ]]; then
-            ULID=ulid
-          else
-            ULID=pgx_ulid
-          fi
-          LIBS=timescaledb:rag_bge_small_en_v15,rag_jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en:$ULID
-          settings=$(jq -c -n --arg libs $LIBS '{preload_libraries:{use_defaults:false,enabled_libraries:($libs| split(":"))}}')
-          echo settings=$settings >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          
-      - name: Create Neon Project
-        id: create-neon-project
-        uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-create
-        with:
-          region_id: ${{ inputs.region_id || 'aws-us-east-2' }}
-          postgres_version: ${{ matrix.pg-version }}
-          project_settings: ${{ steps.project-settings.outputs.settings }}
-          api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Run the regression tests
-        run: /run-tests.sh -r /ext-src
-        env:
-          BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}
-          SKIP: "pg_hint_plan-src,pg_repack-src,pg_cron-src,plpgsql_check-src"
-
-      - name: Delete Neon Project
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-delete
-        with:
-          project_id: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.project_id }}
-          api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Post to a Slack channel
-        if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
-        with:
-          channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM }}
-          slack-message: |
-            Periodic extensions test on staging: ${{ job.status }}
-            <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|GitHub Run>
-        env:
-          SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
-
--- a/.github/workflows/cloud-regress.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cloud-regress.yml
@@ -37,19 +37,14 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: us-east-2
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -89,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
          path: /tmp/neon/
          prefix: latest
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

      - name: Create a new branch
        id: create-branch
@@ -105,7 +100,7 @@ jobs:
          test_selection: cloud_regress
          pg_version: ${{matrix.pg-version}}
          extra_params: -m remote_cluster
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
        env:
          BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{steps.create-branch.outputs.dsn}}

@@ -122,11 +117,11 @@ jobs:
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
        with:
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
        with:
          channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM }}
          slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/fast-forward.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/fast-forward.yml
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Remove fast-forward label to PR
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
@@ -27,17 +22,15 @@ jobs:
      - name: Fast forwarding
        uses: sequoia-pgp/fast-forward@ea7628bedcb0b0b96e94383ada458d812fca4979
        # See https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/enums#mergestatestatus
-        if: ${{ contains(fromJSON('["clean", "unstable"]'), github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state) }}
+        if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state  == 'clean' }}
        with:
          merge: true
          comment: on-error
          github_token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

      - name: Comment if mergeable_state is not clean
-        if: ${{ !contains(fromJSON('["clean", "unstable"]'), github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state) }}
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+        if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state  != 'clean' }}
        run: |
          gh pr comment ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} \
            --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" \
-            --body "Not trying to forward pull-request, because \`mergeable_state\` is \`${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state }}\`, not \`clean\` or \`unstable\`."
+            --body "Not trying to forward pull-request, because \`mergeable_state\` is \`${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state }}\`, not \`clean\`."
--- a/.github/workflows/force-test-extensions-upgrade.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/force-test-extensions-upgrade.yml
@@ -34,12 +34,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: small

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: false

@@ -55,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
          echo tag=${tag} >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}

      - name: Test extension upgrade
-        timeout-minutes: 60
+        timeout-minutes: 20
        env:
          NEW_COMPUTE_TAG: latest
          OLD_COMPUTE_TAG: ${{ steps.get-last-compute-release-tag.outputs.tag }}
@@ -72,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Post to the Slack channel
        if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
        with:
          channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM }}
          slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/ingest_benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ingest_benchmark.yml
@@ -23,16 +23,13 @@ concurrency:
  group: ingest-bench-workflow
  cancel-in-progress: true

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  ingest:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false # allow other variants to continue even if one fails
      matrix:
        include:
-          - target_project: new_empty_project_stripe_size_2048
+          - target_project: new_empty_project_stripe_size_2048 
            stripe_size: 2048 # 16 MiB
            postgres_version: 16
            disable_sharding: false
@@ -70,23 +67,18 @@ jobs:
      PGCOPYDB_LIB_PATH: /pgcopydb/lib
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init
    timeout-minutes: 1440

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary to download artefacts
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -98,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Create Neon Project
      if: ${{ startsWith(matrix.target_project, 'new_empty_project') }}
@@ -110,10 +102,10 @@ jobs:
        compute_units: '[7, 7]' # we want to test large compute here to avoid compute-side bottleneck
        api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
        shard_split_project: ${{ matrix.stripe_size != null && 'true' || 'false' }}
-        admin_api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_ADMIN_API_KEY }}
+        admin_api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_ADMIN_API_KEY }} 
        shard_count: 8
        stripe_size: ${{ matrix.stripe_size }}
-        disable_sharding: ${{ matrix.disable_sharding }}
+        disable_sharding: ${{ matrix.disable_sharding }} 

    - name: Initialize Neon project
      if: ${{ startsWith(matrix.target_project, 'new_empty_project') }}
@@ -171,7 +163,7 @@ jobs:
        extra_params: -s -m remote_cluster --timeout 86400 -k test_ingest_performance_using_pgcopydb
        pg_version: v${{ matrix.postgres_version }}
        save_perf_report: true
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_INGEST_SOURCE_CONNSTR: ${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_INGEST_SOURCE_CONNSTR }}
        TARGET_PROJECT_TYPE: ${{ matrix.target_project }}
--- a/.github/workflows/label-for-external-users.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/label-for-external-users.yml
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ jobs:
      is-member: ${{ steps.check-user.outputs.is-member }}

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Check whether `${{ github.actor }}` is a member of `${{ github.repository_owner }}`
      id: check-user
      env:
@@ -74,11 +69,6 @@ jobs:
      issues: write        # for `gh issue edit`

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Add `${{ env.LABEL }}` label
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/large_oltp_benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/large_oltp_benchmark.yml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ name: large oltp benchmark

 on:
  # uncomment to run on push for debugging your PR
-  #push:
-  #  branches: [ bodobolero/synthetic_oltp_workload ]
+  push:
+    branches: [ bodobolero/synthetic_oltp_workload ]

  schedule:
    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ on:
    #          │ │  ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
    #          │ │  │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
    #          │ │  │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron:   '0 15 * * 0,2,4' # run on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday at 3 PM UTC
+    - cron:   '0 15 * * *' # run once a day, timezone is utc, avoid conflict with other benchmarks
  workflow_dispatch: # adds ability to run this manually

 defaults:
@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@ defaults:
 concurrency:
  # Allow only one workflow globally because we need dedicated resources which only exist once
  group: large-oltp-bench-workflow
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
+  cancel-in-progress: true

 jobs:
  oltp:
@@ -33,55 +30,41 @@ jobs:
      fail-fast: false # allow other variants to continue even if one fails
      matrix:
        include:
-          # test only read-only custom scripts in new branch without database maintenance
-          - target: new_branch
-            custom_scripts: select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@300 select_recent_webhook.sql@397 select_prefetch_webhook.sql@3
-            test_maintenance: false
-          # test all custom scripts in new branch with database maintenance
-          - target: new_branch
-            custom_scripts: insert_webhooks.sql@200 select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@300 select_recent_webhook.sql@397 select_prefetch_webhook.sql@3 IUD_one_transaction.sql@100
-            test_maintenance: true
-          # test all custom scripts in reuse branch with database maintenance
-          - target: reuse_branch
-            custom_scripts: insert_webhooks.sql@200 select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@300 select_recent_webhook.sql@397 select_prefetch_webhook.sql@3 IUD_one_transaction.sql@100
-            test_maintenance: true
-      max-parallel: 1 # we want to run each benchmark sequentially to not have noisy neighbors on shared storage (PS, SK)
+          - target: new_branch 
+            custom_scripts: insert_webhooks.sql@2 select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@4 select_recent_webhook.sql@4 
+          - target: reuse_branch 
+            custom_scripts: insert_webhooks.sql@2 select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@4 select_recent_webhook.sql@4 
+      max-parallel: 1 # we want to run each stripe size sequentially to be able to compare the results
    permissions:
      contents: write
      statuses: write
      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
    env:
-      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "1h" # todo update to > 1 h
+      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "1h" # todo update to > 1 h 
      TEST_PGBENCH_CUSTOM_SCRIPTS: ${{ matrix.custom_scripts }}
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
      PG_VERSION: 16 # pre-determined by pre-determined project
      TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
      BUILD_TYPE: remote
+      SAVE_PERF_REPORT: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' }}
      PLATFORM: ${{ matrix.target }}

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

-    # Increase timeout to 2 days, default timeout is 6h - database maintenance can take a long time
-    # (normally 1h pgbench, 3h vacuum analyze 3.5h re-index) x 2 = 15h, leave some buffer for regressions
-    # in one run vacuum didn't finish within 12 hours
-    timeout-minutes: 2880
+    # Increase timeout to 8h, default timeout is 6h
+    timeout-minutes: 480

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary to download artefacts
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -93,7 +76,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Create Neon Branch for large tenant
      if: ${{ matrix.target == 'new_branch' }}
@@ -106,36 +89,20 @@ jobs:
    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-connstr
      run: |
-        case "${{ matrix.target }}" in
-          new_branch)
-          CONNSTR=${{ steps.create-neon-branch-oltp-target.outputs.dsn }}
-          ;;
-          reuse_branch)
-          CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_REUSE_CONNSTR }}
-          ;;
-          *)
-          echo >&2 "Unknown target=${{ matrix.target }}"
-          exit 1
-          ;;
-        esac
+          case "${{ matrix.target }}" in
+              new_branch)
+              CONNSTR=${{ steps.create-neon-branch-oltp-target.outputs.dsn }}
+              ;;
+              reuse_branch)
+              CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_REUSE_CONNSTR }}
+              ;;
+              *)
+              echo >&2 "Unknown target=${{ matrix.target }}"
+              exit 1
+              ;;
+          esac

-        CONNSTR_WITHOUT_POOLER="${CONNSTR//-pooler/}"
-
-        echo "connstr=${CONNSTR}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        echo "connstr_without_pooler=${CONNSTR_WITHOUT_POOLER}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-    - name: Delete rows from prior runs in reuse branch
-      if: ${{ matrix.target == 'reuse_branch' }}
-      env:
-          BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr_without_pooler }}
-          PG_CONFIG: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/bin/pg_config
-          PSQL: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/bin/psql
-          PG_16_LIB_PATH: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/lib
-      run: |
-        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Deleting rows in table webhook.incoming_webhooks from prior runs"
-        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PG_16_LIB_PATH}
-        ${PSQL} "${BENCHMARK_CONNSTR}" -c "SET statement_timeout = 0; DELETE FROM webhook.incoming_webhooks WHERE created_at > '2025-02-27 23:59:59+00';"
-        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Finished deleting rows in table webhook.incoming_webhooks from prior runs"
+          echo "connstr=${CONNSTR}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

    - name: Benchmark pgbench with custom-scripts
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
@@ -143,31 +110,15 @@ jobs:
        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
        test_selection: performance
        run_in_parallel: false
-        save_perf_report: true
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 7200 -k test_perf_oltp_large_tenant_pgbench
+        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
+        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 21600 -k test_perf_oltp_large_tenant
        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"

-    - name: Benchmark database maintenance
-      if: ${{ matrix.test_maintenance == 'true' }}
-      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-      with:
-        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
-        test_selection: performance
-        run_in_parallel: false
-        save_perf_report: true
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 172800 -k test_perf_oltp_large_tenant_maintenance
-        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-      env:
-        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr_without_pooler }}
-        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
-        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
-
    - name: Delete Neon Branch for large tenant
      if: ${{ always() && matrix.target == 'new_branch' }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/neon-branch-delete
@@ -176,23 +127,16 @@ jobs:
        branch_id: ${{ steps.create-neon-branch-oltp-target.outputs.branch_id }}
        api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}

-    - name: Configure AWS credentials # again because prior steps could have exceeded 5 hours
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
-      with:
-        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        role-duration-seconds: 18000 # 5 hours
-
    - name: Create Allure report
      id: create-allure-report
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+  
    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/large_oltp_growth.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/large_oltp_growth.yml
@@ -1,175 +0,0 @@
-name: large oltp growth
-# workflow to grow the reuse branch of large oltp benchmark continuously (about 16 GB per run)
-
-on:
-  # uncomment to run on push for debugging your PR
-  # push:
-  #  branches: [ bodobolero/increase_large_oltp_workload ]
-
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #        │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #        │ │  ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #        │ │  │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #        │ │  │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron: '0 6 * * *'   # 06:00 UTC
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'   # 08:00 UTC
-    - cron: '0 10 * * *'  # 10:00 UTC
-    - cron: '0 12 * * *'  # 12:00 UTC
-    - cron: '0 14 * * *'  # 14:00 UTC
-    - cron: '0 16 * * *'  # 16:00 UTC
-  workflow_dispatch: # adds ability to run this manually
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-concurrency:
-  # Allow only one workflow globally because we need dedicated resources which only exist once
-  group: large-oltp-growth
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  oltp:
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false # allow other variants to continue even if one fails
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          # for now only grow the reuse branch, not the other branches.
-          - target: reuse_branch
-            custom_scripts:
-            - grow_action_blocks.sql
-            - grow_action_kwargs.sql
-            - grow_device_fingerprint_event.sql
-            - grow_edges.sql
-            - grow_hotel_rate_mapping.sql
-            - grow_ocr_pipeline_results_version.sql
-            - grow_priceline_raw_response.sql
-            - grow_relabled_transactions.sql
-            - grow_state_values.sql
-            - grow_values.sql
-            - grow_vertices.sql
-            - update_accounting_coding_body_tracking_category_selection.sql
-            - update_action_blocks.sql
-            - update_action_kwargs.sql
-            - update_denormalized_approval_workflow.sql
-            - update_device_fingerprint_event.sql
-            - update_edges.sql
-            - update_heron_transaction_enriched_log.sql
-            - update_heron_transaction_enrichment_requests.sql
-            - update_hotel_rate_mapping.sql
-            - update_incoming_webhooks.sql
-            - update_manual_transaction.sql
-            - update_ml_receipt_matching_log.sql
-            - update_ocr_pipeine_results_version.sql
-            - update_orc_pipeline_step_results.sql
-            - update_orc_pipeline_step_results_version.sql
-            - update_priceline_raw_response.sql
-            - update_quickbooks_transactions.sql
-            - update_raw_finicity_transaction.sql
-            - update_relabeled_transactions.sql
-            - update_state_values.sql
-            - update_stripe_authorization_event_log.sql
-            - update_transaction.sql
-            - update_values.sql
-            - update_vertices.sql
-      max-parallel: 1 # we want to run each growth workload sequentially (for now there is just one)
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      statuses: write
-      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-    env:
-      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "1h"
-      TEST_PGBENCH_CUSTOM_SCRIPTS: ${{ join(matrix.custom_scripts, ' ') }}
-      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
-      PG_VERSION: 16 # pre-determined by pre-determined project
-      TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
-      BUILD_TYPE: remote
-      PLATFORM: ${{ matrix.target }}
-
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary to download artefacts
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
-      with:
-        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        role-duration-seconds: 18000 # 5 hours is currently max associated with IAM role
-
-    - name: Download Neon artifact
-      uses: ./.github/actions/download
-      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
-        path: /tmp/neon/
-        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
-    - name: Set up Connection String
-      id: set-up-connstr
-      run: |
-        case "${{ matrix.target }}" in
-          reuse_branch)
-          CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_REUSE_CONNSTR }}
-          ;;
-          *)
-          echo >&2 "Unknown target=${{ matrix.target }}"
-          exit 1
-          ;;
-        esac
-
-        CONNSTR_WITHOUT_POOLER="${CONNSTR//-pooler/}"
-
-        echo "connstr=${CONNSTR}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        echo "connstr_without_pooler=${CONNSTR_WITHOUT_POOLER}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-    - name: pgbench with custom-scripts
-      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-      with:
-        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
-        test_selection: performance
-        run_in_parallel: false
-        save_perf_report: true
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 7200 -k test_perf_oltp_large_tenant_growth
-        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-      env:
-        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
-        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
-        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
-
-    - name: Create Allure report
-      id: create-allure-report
-      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
-      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
-    - name: Post to a Slack channel
-      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
-      with:
-        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
-        slack-message: |
-          Periodic large oltp tenant growth increase: ${{ job.status }}
-          <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|GitHub Run>
-          <${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}|Allure report>
-      env:
-        SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/lint-release-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint-release-pr.yml
@@ -7,20 +7,12 @@ on:
      - release-proxy
      - release-compute

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  lint-release-pr:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout PR branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0  # Fetch full history for git operations
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
--- a/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
@@ -42,18 +42,13 @@ jobs:
      rebuild_everything: ${{ steps.files_changed.outputs.rebuild_neon_extra || steps.files_changed.outputs.rebuild_macos }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

      - name: Check for Postgres changes
-        uses: step-security/paths-filter@v3
+        uses: dorny/paths-filter@1441771bbfdd59dcd748680ee64ebd8faab1a242  #v3
        id: files_changed
        with:
          token: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -63,19 +58,21 @@ jobs:

      - name: Filter out only v-string for build matrix
        id: postgres_changes
-        env:
-          CHANGES: ${{ steps.files_changed.outputs.changes }}
        run: |
-          v_strings_only_as_json_array=$(echo ${CHANGES} | jq '.[]|select(test("v\\d+"))' | jq --slurp -c)
+          v_strings_only_as_json_array=$(echo ${{ steps.files_changed.outputs.chnages }} | jq '.[]|select(test("v\\d+"))' | jq --slurp -c)
          echo "changes=${v_strings_only_as_json_array}" | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"

  check-macos-build:
    needs: [ check-permissions, files-changed ]
+    if: |
+      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-macos')  ||
+      contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-extra-build-*') ||
+      github.ref_name == 'main'
    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-macos.yml
    with:
      pg_versions: ${{ needs.files-changed.outputs.postgres_changes }}
-      rebuild_rust_code: ${{ fromJSON(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_rust_code) }}
-      rebuild_everything: ${{ fromJSON(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_everything) }}
+      rebuild_rust_code: ${{ fromJson(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_rust_code) }}
+      rebuild_everything: ${{ fromJson(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_everything) }}

  gather-rust-build-stats:
    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image, files-changed ]
@@ -93,8 +90,8 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    env:
@@ -104,13 +101,8 @@ jobs:
      CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -125,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build --all --release --timings -j$(nproc)

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-region: eu-central-1
          role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -142,7 +134,7 @@ jobs:
          echo "report-url=${REPORT_URL}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

      - name: Publish build stats report
-        uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        env:
          REPORT_URL: ${{ steps.upload-stats.outputs.report-url }}
          SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
--- a/.github/workflows/periodic_pagebench.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/periodic_pagebench.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Periodic pagebench performance test on unit-perf hetzner runner
+name: Periodic pagebench performance test on dedicated EC2 machine in eu-central-1 region

 on:
  schedule:
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
    #        │   │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
    #        │   │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
    #        │   │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron: '0 */4 * * *' # Runs every 4 hours
+    - cron: '0 */3 * * *' # Runs every 3 hours
  workflow_dispatch: # Allows manual triggering of the workflow
    inputs:
      commit_hash:
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@ on:
        description: 'The long neon repo commit hash for the system under test (pageserver) to be tested.'
        required: false
        default: ''
-      recreate_snapshots:
-        type: boolean
-        description: 'Recreate snapshots - !!!WARNING!!! We should only recreate snapshots if the previous ones are no longer compatible. Otherwise benchmarking results are not comparable across runs.'
-        required: false
-        default: false

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -30,252 +25,150 @@ concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}
  cancel-in-progress: false

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
-  run_periodic_pagebench_test:
+  trigger_bench_on_ec2_machine_in_eu_central_1:
    permissions:
      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
      statuses: write
      contents: write
      pull-requests: write
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, unit-perf ]
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init
    timeout-minutes: 360  # Set the timeout to 6 hours
    env:
+      API_KEY: ${{ secrets.PERIODIC_PAGEBENCH_EC2_RUNNER_API_KEY }}
      RUN_ID: ${{ github.run_id }}
-      DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 16
-      BUILD_TYPE: release
-      RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
-      # NEON_ENV_BUILDER_USE_OVERLAYFS_FOR_SNAPSHOTS: 1 - doesn't work without root in container
-      S3_BUCKET: neon-github-public-dev
-      PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
+      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION : "eu-central-1"
+      AWS_INSTANCE_ID : "i-02a59a3bf86bc7e74"
    steps:
    # we don't need the neon source code because we run everything remotely
    # however we still need the local github actions to run the allure step below
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

-    - name: Set up the environment which depends on $RUNNER_TEMP on nvme drive
-      id: set-env
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      run: |
-        {
-          echo "NEON_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon"
-          echo "NEON_BIN=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/bin"
-          echo "POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/pg_install"
-          echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/pg_install/v${DEFAULT_PG_VERSION}/lib"
-          echo "BACKUP_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/instance_store/saved_snapshots"
-          echo "TEST_OUTPUT=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/test_output"
-          echo "PERF_REPORT_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/test_output/perf-report-local"
-          echo "ALLURE_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/test_output/allure-results"
-          echo "ALLURE_RESULTS_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/test_output/allure-results/results"
-        } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+    - name: Show my own (github runner) external IP address - usefull for IP allowlisting
+      run: curl https://ifconfig.me

-        echo "allure_results_dir=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon/test_output/allure-results/results" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
-    - uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+    - name: Assume AWS OIDC role that allows to manage (start/stop/describe... EC machine)
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        role-duration-seconds: 18000 # max 5 hours (needed in case commit hash is still being built)
+        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN }}
+        role-duration-seconds: 3600
+
+    - name: Start EC2 instance and wait for the instance to boot up
+      run: |
+        aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids $AWS_INSTANCE_ID
+        aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-ids $AWS_INSTANCE_ID
+        sleep 60 # sleep some time to allow cloudinit and our API server to start up
+
+    - name: Determine public IP of the EC2 instance and set env variable EC2_MACHINE_URL_US
+      run: |
+        public_ip=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $AWS_INSTANCE_ID --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].PublicIpAddress' --output text)
+        echo "Public IP of the EC2 instance: $public_ip"
+        echo "EC2_MACHINE_URL_US=https://${public_ip}:8443" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
    - name: Determine commit hash
-      id: commit_hash
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
      env:
        INPUT_COMMIT_HASH: ${{ github.event.inputs.commit_hash }}
      run: |
-        if [[ -z "${INPUT_COMMIT_HASH}" ]]; then
-          COMMIT_HASH=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/neondatabase/neon/commits/main | jq -r '.sha')
-          echo "COMMIT_HASH=$COMMIT_HASH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "commit_hash=$COMMIT_HASH" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+        if [ -z "$INPUT_COMMIT_HASH" ]; then
+          echo "COMMIT_HASH=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/neondatabase/neon/commits/main | jq -r '.sha')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "COMMIT_HASH_TYPE=latest" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        else
-          COMMIT_HASH="${INPUT_COMMIT_HASH}"
-          echo "COMMIT_HASH=$COMMIT_HASH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "commit_hash=$COMMIT_HASH" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "COMMIT_HASH=$INPUT_COMMIT_HASH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "COMMIT_HASH_TYPE=manual" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi
-    - name: Checkout the neon repository at given commit hash
-      uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-      with:
-        ref: ${{ steps.commit_hash.outputs.commit_hash }}

-    # does not reuse ./.github/actions/download because we need to download the artifact for the given commit hash
-    # example artifact
-    # s3://neon-github-public-dev/artifacts/48b870bc078bd2c450eb7b468e743b9c118549bf/15036827400/1/neon-Linux-X64-release-artifact.tar.zst /instance_store/artifacts/neon-Linux-release-artifact.tar.zst
-    - name: Determine artifact S3_KEY for given commit hash and download and extract artifact
-      id: artifact_prefix
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      env:
-        ARCHIVE: ${{ runner.temp }}/downloads/neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact.tar.zst
-        COMMIT_HASH: ${{ env.COMMIT_HASH }}
-        COMMIT_HASH_TYPE: ${{ env.COMMIT_HASH_TYPE }}
+    - name: Start Bench with run_id
      run: |
-        attempt=0
-        max_attempts=24 # 5 minutes * 24 = 2 hours
+        curl -k -X 'POST' \
+        "${EC2_MACHINE_URL_US}/start_test/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}" \
+        -H 'accept: application/json' \
+        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+        -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
+        -d "{\"neonRepoCommitHash\": \"${COMMIT_HASH}\", \"neonRepoCommitHashType\": \"${COMMIT_HASH_TYPE}\"}"

-        while [[ $attempt -lt $max_attempts ]]; do
-          # the following command will fail until the artifacts are available ...
-          S3_KEY=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket "$S3_BUCKET" --prefix "artifacts/$COMMIT_HASH/" \
-            | jq -r '.Contents[]?.Key' \
-            | grep "neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact.tar.zst" \
-            | sort --version-sort \
-            | tail -1) || true # ... thus ignore errors from the command
-          if [[ -n "${S3_KEY}" ]]; then
-            echo "Artifact found: $S3_KEY"
-            echo "S3_KEY=$S3_KEY" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: Poll Test Status
+      id: poll_step
+      run: |
+        status=""
+        while [[ "$status" != "failure" && "$status" != "success" ]]; do
+          response=$(curl -k -X 'GET' \
+          "${EC2_MACHINE_URL_US}/test_status/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}" \
+          -H 'accept: application/json' \
+          -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY")
+          echo "Response: $response"
+          set +x
+          status=$(echo $response | jq -r '.status')
+          echo "Test status: $status"
+          if [[ "$status" == "failure" ]]; then
+            echo "Test failed"
+            exit 1 # Fail the job step if status is failure
+          elif [[ "$status" == "success" || "$status" == "null" ]]; then
            break
+          elif [[ "$status" == "too_many_runs" ]]; then
+            echo "Too many runs already running"
+            echo "too_many_runs=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 1
          fi
-          
-          # Increment attempt counter and sleep for 5 minutes
-          attempt=$((attempt + 1))
-          echo "Attempt $attempt of $max_attempts to find artifacts in S3 bucket s3://$S3_BUCKET/artifacts/$COMMIT_HASH failed. Retrying in 5 minutes..."
-          sleep 300 # Sleep for 5 minutes
+
+          sleep 60 # Poll every 60 seconds
        done

-        if [[ -z "${S3_KEY}" ]]; then
-          echo "Error: artifact not found in S3 bucket s3://$S3_BUCKET/artifacts/$COMMIT_HASH" after 2 hours
-        else
-          mkdir -p $(dirname $ARCHIVE)
-          time aws s3 cp --only-show-errors s3://$S3_BUCKET/${S3_KEY} ${ARCHIVE}
-          mkdir -p ${NEON_DIR}
-          time tar -xf ${ARCHIVE} -C ${NEON_DIR}
-          rm -f ${ARCHIVE}
-        fi
-
-    - name: Download snapshots from S3
-      if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.inputs.recreate_snapshots == 'false' || github.event.inputs.recreate_snapshots == '' }}
-      id: download_snapshots
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
+    - name: Retrieve Test Logs
+      if: always() && steps.poll_step.outputs.too_many_runs != 'true'
      run: |
-        # Download the snapshots from S3
-        mkdir -p ${TEST_OUTPUT}
-        mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR
-        cd $BACKUP_DIR
-        mkdir parts
-        cd parts
-        PART=$(aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket $S3_BUCKET --prefix performance/pagebench/ \
-          | jq -r '.Contents[]?.Key' \
-          | grep -E 'shared-snapshots-[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}' \
-          | sort \
-          | tail -1)
-        echo "Latest PART: $PART"
-        if [[ -z "$PART" ]]; then
-          echo "ERROR: No matching S3 key found" >&2
-          exit 1
-        fi
-        S3_KEY=$(dirname $PART)
-        time aws s3 cp --only-show-errors --recursive s3://${S3_BUCKET}/$S3_KEY/ .
-        cd $TEST_OUTPUT
-        time cat $BACKUP_DIR/parts/* | zstdcat | tar --extract --preserve-permissions
-        rm -rf ${BACKUP_DIR}
+        curl -k -X 'GET' \
+        "${EC2_MACHINE_URL_US}/test_log/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}" \
+        -H 'accept: application/gzip' \
+        -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
+        --output "test_log_${GITHUB_RUN_ID}.gz"

-    - name: Cache poetry deps
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
-        key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}
-
-    - name: Install Python deps
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      run: ./scripts/pysync
-
-    # we need high number of open files for pagebench
-    - name: show ulimits
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
+    - name: Unzip Test Log and Print it into this job's log
+      if: always() && steps.poll_step.outputs.too_many_runs != 'true'
      run: |
-        ulimit -a
-
-    - name: Run pagebench testcase
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      env:
-        CI: false  # need to override this env variable set by github to enforce using snapshots
-      run: |
-        export PLATFORM=hetzner-unit-perf-${COMMIT_HASH_TYPE}
-        # report the commit hash of the neon repository in the revision of the test results
-        export GITHUB_SHA=${COMMIT_HASH}
-        rm -rf ${PERF_REPORT_DIR}
-        rm -rf ${ALLURE_RESULTS_DIR}
-        mkdir -p ${PERF_REPORT_DIR}
-        mkdir -p ${ALLURE_RESULTS_DIR}
-        PARAMS="--alluredir=${ALLURE_RESULTS_DIR} --tb=short --verbose -rA"
-        EXTRA_PARAMS="--out-dir ${PERF_REPORT_DIR} --durations-path $TEST_OUTPUT/benchmark_durations.json"
-        # run only two selected tests
-        # environment set by parent:
-        # RUST_BACKTRACE=1 DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=16 BUILD_TYPE=release
-        ./scripts/pytest ${PARAMS} test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py::test_pageserver_characterize_throughput_with_n_tenants ${EXTRA_PARAMS}
-        ./scripts/pytest ${PARAMS} test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py::test_pageserver_characterize_latencies_with_1_client_and_throughput_with_many_clients_one_tenant ${EXTRA_PARAMS}
-
-    - name: upload the performance metrics to the Neon performance database which is used by grafana dashboards to display the results
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      run: |
-        export REPORT_FROM="$PERF_REPORT_DIR"
-        export GITHUB_SHA=${COMMIT_HASH}
-        time ./scripts/generate_and_push_perf_report.sh
-
-    - name: Upload test results
-      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-store
-      with:
-        report-dir:  ${{ steps.set-env.outputs.allure_results_dir }}
-        unique-key: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}-${{ runner.arch }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn:  ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        gzip -d "test_log_${GITHUB_RUN_ID}.gz"
+        cat "test_log_${GITHUB_RUN_ID}"

    - name: Create Allure report
-      id: create-allure-report
      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
-    - name: Upload snapshots
-      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.event.inputs.recreate_snapshots != 'false' && github.event.inputs.recreate_snapshots != '' }}
-      id: upload_snapshots
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      run: |
-        mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR
-        cd $TEST_OUTPUT
-        tar --create --preserve-permissions --file - shared-snapshots | zstd -o $BACKUP_DIR/shared_snapshots.tar.zst
-        cd $BACKUP_DIR
-        mkdir parts
-        split -b 1G shared_snapshots.tar.zst ./parts/shared_snapshots.tar.zst.part.
-        SNAPSHOT_DATE=$(date +%F)  # YYYY-MM-DD
-        cd parts
-        time aws s3 cp --recursive . s3://${S3_BUCKET}/performance/pagebench/shared-snapshots-${SNAPSHOT_DATE}/
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: "Periodic pagebench testing on dedicated hardware: ${{ job.status }}\n${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}"
      env:
        SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
-        
+
    - name: Cleanup Test Resources
      if: always()
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      env:
-        ARCHIVE: ${{ runner.temp }}/downloads/neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact.tar.zst
      run: |
-        # Cleanup the test resources
-        if [[ -d "${BACKUP_DIR}" ]]; then
-          rm -rf ${BACKUP_DIR}
-        fi
-        if [[ -d "${TEST_OUTPUT}" ]]; then
-          rm -rf ${TEST_OUTPUT}
-        fi
-        if [[ -d "${NEON_DIR}" ]]; then
-          rm -rf ${NEON_DIR}
-        fi
-        rm -rf $(dirname $ARCHIVE)
+        curl -k -X 'POST' \
+        "${EC2_MACHINE_URL_US}/cleanup_test/${GITHUB_RUN_ID}" \
+        -H 'accept: application/json' \
+        -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
+        -d ''

+    - name: Assume AWS OIDC role that allows to manage (start/stop/describe... EC machine)
+      if: always() && steps.poll_step.outputs.too_many_runs != 'true'
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
+      with:
+        aws-region: eu-central-1
+        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN }}
+        role-duration-seconds: 3600
+
+    - name: Stop EC2 instance and wait for the instance to be stopped
+      if: always() && steps.poll_step.outputs.too_many_runs != 'true'
+      run: |
+        aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids $AWS_INSTANCE_ID
+        aws ec2 wait instance-stopped --instance-ids $AWS_INSTANCE_ID
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ permissions:
  statuses: write # require for posting a status update

 env:
-  DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 17
+  DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 16
  PLATFORM: neon-captest-new
  AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: eu-central-1

@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ jobs:
      github-event-name: ${{ github.event_name }}

  build-build-tools-image:
-    permissions:
-      packages: write
    needs: [ check-permissions ]
    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
    secrets: inherit
@@ -55,8 +53,8 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init --user root
    services:
      clickhouse:
@@ -90,12 +88,7 @@ jobs:
        ports:
          - 8083:8083
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Download Neon artifact
        uses: ./.github/actions/download
@@ -103,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
          path: /tmp/neon/
          prefix: latest
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

      - name: Create Neon Project
        id: create-neon-project
@@ -122,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
          run_in_parallel: false
          extra_params: -m remote_cluster
          pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
        env:
          BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}

@@ -139,13 +132,13 @@ jobs:
        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
        with:
          store-test-results-into-db: true
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
        env:
          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        if: github.event.schedule && failure()
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
        with:
          channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
          slack-message: |
@@ -160,17 +153,12 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init --user root

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
@@ -178,7 +166,7 @@ jobs:
        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Create Neon Project
      id: create-neon-project
@@ -195,7 +183,7 @@ jobs:
        run_in_parallel: false
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster
        pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}

@@ -212,13 +200,13 @@ jobs:
      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
      with:
        store-test-results-into-db: true
-        aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
+        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
      env:
        REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: github.event.schedule && failure()
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -40,19 +40,14 @@ jobs:
      skip: ${{ steps.check-manifests.outputs.skip }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Check if we really need to pin the image
        id: check-manifests
        env:
          FROM_TAG: ${{ inputs.from-tag }}
          TO_TAG: pinned
        run: |
-          docker manifest inspect "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${FROM_TAG}" > "${FROM_TAG}.json"
-          docker manifest inspect "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${TO_TAG}"   > "${TO_TAG}.json"
+          docker manifest inspect "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${FROM_TAG}" > "${FROM_TAG}.json"
+          docker manifest inspect "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${TO_TAG}"   > "${TO_TAG}.json"

          if diff "${FROM_TAG}.json" "${TO_TAG}.json"; then
            skip=true
@@ -76,13 +71,13 @@ jobs:
    with:
      image-map: |
        {
-          "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bullseye": [
+          "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bullseye": [
            "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bullseye",
            "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bullseye",
            "${{ vars.NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }}.dkr.ecr.${{ vars.AWS_ECR_REGION }}.amazonaws.com/build-tools:pinned-bullseye",
            "${{ vars.AZURE_DEV_REGISTRY_NAME }}.azurecr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bullseye"
          ],
-          "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bookworm": [
+          "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bookworm": [
            "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm",
            "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned",
            "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm",
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-merge-checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-merge-checks.yml
@@ -19,22 +19,15 @@ permissions: {}
 jobs:
  meta:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
    outputs:
      python-changed: ${{ steps.python-src.outputs.any_changed }}
      rust-changed: ${{ steps.rust-src.outputs.any_changed }}
      branch: ${{ steps.group-metadata.outputs.branch }}
      pr-number: ${{ steps.group-metadata.outputs.pr-number }}
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - uses: step-security/changed-files@3dbe17c78367e7d60f00d78ae6781a35be47b4a1 # v45.0.1
+      - uses: tj-actions/changed-files@4edd678ac3f81e2dc578756871e4d00c19191daf # v45.0.4
        id: python-src
        with:
          files: |
@@ -45,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
            poetry.lock
            pyproject.toml

-      - uses: step-security/changed-files@3dbe17c78367e7d60f00d78ae6781a35be47b4a1 # v45.0.1
+      - uses: tj-actions/changed-files@4edd678ac3f81e2dc578756871e4d00c19191daf # v45.0.4
        id: rust-src
        with:
          files: |
@@ -79,9 +72,6 @@ jobs:
      || needs.meta.outputs.python-changed == 'true'
      || needs.meta.outputs.rust-changed == 'true'
    needs: [ meta ]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: write
    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
    with:
      # Build only one combination to save time
@@ -92,9 +82,6 @@ jobs:
  check-codestyle-python:
    if: needs.meta.outputs.python-changed == 'true'
    needs: [ meta, build-build-tools-image ]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: read
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-python.yml
    with:
      # `-bookworm-x64` suffix should match the combination in `build-build-tools-image`
@@ -104,9 +91,6 @@ jobs:
  check-codestyle-rust:
    if: needs.meta.outputs.rust-changed == 'true'
    needs: [ meta, build-build-tools-image ]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: read
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-rust.yml
    with:
      # `-bookworm-x64` suffix should match the combination in `build-build-tools-image`
@@ -130,13 +114,8 @@ jobs:
      - check-codestyle-rust
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Create fake `neon-cloud-e2e` check
-        uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        with:
          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
          retries: 5
@@ -169,7 +148,7 @@ jobs:
          ${{
            always()
            && github.event_name == 'merge_group'
-            && contains(fromJSON('["release", "release-proxy", "release-compute"]'), needs.meta.outputs.branch)
+            && contains(fromJson('["release", "release-proxy", "release-compute"]'), github.base_ref)
          }}
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/proxy-benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/proxy-benchmark.yml
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-name: Periodic proxy performance test on unit-perf hetzner runner
-
-on:
-  push: # TODO: remove after testing
-    branches:
-      - test-proxy-bench # Runs on pushes to branches starting with test-proxy-bench
-  # schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #        │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #        │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #        │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #        │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    # - cron: '0 5 * * *' # Runs at 5 UTC once a day
-  workflow_dispatch: # adds an ability to run this manually
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  run_periodic_proxybench_test:
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-      statuses: write
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, unit-perf]
-    timeout-minutes: 60  # 1h timeout
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout proxy-bench Repo
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        repository: neondatabase/proxy-bench
-        path: proxy-bench
-
-    - name: Set up the environment which depends on $RUNNER_TEMP on nvme drive
-      id: set-env
-      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-      run: |
-        PROXY_BENCH_PATH=$(realpath ./proxy-bench)
-        {
-          echo "PROXY_BENCH_PATH=$PROXY_BENCH_PATH"
-          echo "NEON_DIR=${RUNNER_TEMP}/neon"
-          echo "TEST_OUTPUT=${PROXY_BENCH_PATH}/test_output"
-          echo ""
-        } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-    - name: Run proxy-bench
-      run: ./${PROXY_BENCH_PATH}/run.sh
-
-    - name: Ingest Bench Results # neon repo script
-      if: success()
-      run: |
-        mkdir -p $TEST_OUTPUT
-        python $NEON_DIR/scripts/proxy_bench_results_ingest.py --out $TEST_OUTPUT
-
-    - name: Push Metrics to Proxy perf database
-      if: success()
-      env:
-        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PROXY_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
-        REPORT_FROM: $TEST_OUTPUT
-      run: $NEON_DIR/scripts/generate_and_push_perf_report.sh
-
-    - name: Docker cleanup
-      run: docker compose down
-
-    - name: Notify Failure
-      if: failure()
-      run: echo "Proxy bench job failed" && exit 1
--- a/.github/workflows/random-ops-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/random-ops-test.yml
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-name: Random Operations Test
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #          ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #          │  ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #          │  │  ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #          │  │  │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #          │  │  │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron:  '23 */2 * * *' # runs every 2 hours
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      random_seed:
-        type: number
-        description: 'The random seed'
-        required: false
-        default: 0
-      num_operations:
-        type: number
-        description: "The number of operations to test"
-        default: 250
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-permissions: {}
-
-env:
-  DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 16
-  PLATFORM: neon-captest-new
-  AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: eu-central-1
-
-jobs:
-  run-random-rests:
-    env:
-      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
-    runs-on: small
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write
-      statuses: write
-
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        pg-version: [16, 17]
-
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Download Neon artifact
-        uses: ./.github/actions/download
-        with:
-          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
-          path: /tmp/neon/
-          prefix: latest
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
-      - name: Run tests
-        uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-        with:
-          build_type: remote
-          test_selection: random_ops
-          run_in_parallel: false
-          extra_params: -m remote_cluster
-          pg_version: ${{ matrix.pg-version }}
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        env:
-          NEON_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-          RANDOM_SEED: ${{ inputs.random_seed }}
-          NUM_OPERATIONS: ${{ inputs.num_operations }}
-
-      - name: Create Allure report
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        id: create-allure-report
-        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
-        with:
-          store-test-results-into-db: true
-          aws-oidc-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        env:
-          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}
--- a/.github/workflows/regenerate-pg-setting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/regenerate-pg-setting.yml
@@ -23,13 +23,8 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Add comment
-        uses: thollander/actions-comment-pull-request@65f9e5c9a1f2cd378bd74b2e057c9736982a8e74 # v3
+        uses: thollander/actions-comment-pull-request@v3
        with:
          comment-tag: ${{ github.job }}
          pr-number: ${{ github.event.number }}
--- a/.github/workflows/release-compute.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-compute.yml
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-name: Create compute release PR
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 7 * * FRI'
-
-jobs:
-  create-release-pr:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/release.yml
-    with:
-      component: compute
-    secrets: inherit
--- a/.github/workflows/release-notify.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-notify.yml
@@ -22,12 +22,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/release-pr-notify@483a843f2a8bcfbdc4c69d27630528a3ddc4e14b # main
+      - uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/release-pr-notify@main
        with:
          slack-token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
          slack-channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_UPCOMING_RELEASE_CHANNEL_ID || 'C05QQ9J1BRC' }} # if not set, then `#test-release-notifications`
--- a/.github/workflows/release-proxy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-proxy.yml
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-name: Create proxy release PR
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 6 * * TUE'
-
-jobs:
-  create-release-pr:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/release.yml
-    with:
-      component: proxy
-    secrets: inherit
--- a/.github/workflows/release-storage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-storage.yml
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-name: Create storage release PR
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 6 * * FRI'
-
-jobs:
-  create-release-pr:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/release.yml
-    with:
-      component: storage
-    secrets: inherit
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,34 +1,25 @@
-name: Create release PR
+name: Create Release Branch

 on:
+  schedule:
+    # It should be kept in sync with if-condition in jobs
+    - cron: '0 6 * * THU' # Proxy release
+    - cron: '0 6 * * FRI' # Storage release
+    - cron: '0 7 * * FRI' # Compute release
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
-      component:
-        description: "Component to release"
-        required: true
-        type: choice
-        options:
-          - compute
-          - proxy
-          - storage
-      cherry-pick:
-        description: "Commits to cherry-pick (space separated, makes this a hotfix based on previous release)"
+      create-storage-release-branch:
+        type: boolean
+        description: 'Create Storage release PR'
        required: false
-        type: string
-        default: ''
-
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      component:
-        description: "Component to release"
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      cherry-pick:
-        description: "Commits to cherry-pick (space separated, makes this a hotfix based on previous release)"
+      create-proxy-release-branch:
+        type: boolean
+        description: 'Create Proxy release PR'
+        required: false
+      create-compute-release-branch:
+        type: boolean
+        description: 'Create Compute release PR'
        required: false
-        type: string
-        default: ''
-

 # No permission for GITHUB_TOKEN by default; the **minimal required** set of permissions should be granted in each job.
 permissions: {}
@@ -38,31 +29,41 @@ defaults:
    shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}

 jobs:
-  create-release-pr:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+  create-storage-release-branch:
+    if: ${{ github.event.schedule == '0 6 * * FRI' || inputs.create-storage-release-branch }}

    permissions:
      contents: write

-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
+    with:
+      component-name: 'Storage'
+      source-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+    secrets:
+      ci-access-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
+  create-proxy-release-branch:
+    if: ${{ github.event.schedule == '0 6 * * THU' || inputs.create-proxy-release-branch }}

-      - name: Configure git
-        run: |
-          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
-          git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+    permissions:
+      contents: write

-      - name: Create release PR
-        uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/release-pr@290dec821d86fa8a93f019e8c69720f5865b5677
-        with:
-          component: ${{ inputs.component }}
-          cherry-pick: ${{ inputs.cherry-pick }}
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
+    with:
+      component-name: 'Proxy'
+      source-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+    secrets:
+      ci-access-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+
+  create-compute-release-branch:
+    if: ${{ github.event.schedule == '0 7 * * FRI' || inputs.create-compute-release-branch }}
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
+    with:
+      component-name: 'Compute'
+      source-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+    secrets:
+      ci-access-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/report-workflow-stats-batch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/report-workflow-stats-batch.yml
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ on:
    - cron: '25 0 * * *'
    - cron: '25 1 * * 6'

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  gh-workflow-stats-batch-2h:
    name: GitHub Workflow Stats Batch 2 hours
@@ -17,13 +14,8 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      actions: read
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Export Workflow Run for the past 2 hours
-      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@701b1f202666d0b82e67b4d387e909af2b920127 # v0.2.2
+      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@v0.2.1
      with:
        db_uri: ${{ secrets.GH_REPORT_STATS_DB_RW_CONNSTR }}
        db_table: "gh_workflow_stats_neon"
@@ -37,13 +29,8 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      actions: read
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Export Workflow Run for the past 48 hours
-      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@701b1f202666d0b82e67b4d387e909af2b920127 # v0.2.2
+      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@v0.2.1
      with:
        db_uri: ${{ secrets.GH_REPORT_STATS_DB_RW_CONNSTR }}
        db_table: "gh_workflow_stats_neon"
@@ -57,13 +44,8 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      actions: read
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Export Workflow Run for the past 30 days
-      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@701b1f202666d0b82e67b4d387e909af2b920127 # v0.2.2
+      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@v0.2.1
      with:
        db_uri: ${{ secrets.GH_REPORT_STATS_DB_RW_CONNSTR }}
        db_table: "gh_workflow_stats_neon"
--- a/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ on:
      github-event-name:
        type: string
        required: true
-      github-event-json:
-        type: string
-        required: true

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -34,11 +31,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Cancel previous e2e-tests runs for this PR
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
@@ -51,7 +43,6 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_meta.yml
    with:
      github-event-name: ${{ inputs.github-event-name || github.event_name }}
-      github-event-json: ${{ inputs.github-event-json || toJSON(github.event) }}

  trigger-e2e-tests:
    needs: [ meta ]
@@ -72,11 +63,6 @@ jobs:
          || needs.meta.outputs.build-tag
        }}
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0 # v2.12.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Wait for `push-{neon,compute}-image-dev` job to finish
        # It's important to have a timeout here, the script in the step can run infinitely
        timeout-minutes: 60
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-/artifact_cache
-/build
 /pg_install
 /target
 /tmp_check
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ members = [
    "pageserver/ctl",
    "pageserver/client",
    "pageserver/pagebench",
-    "pageserver/page_api",
    "proxy",
    "safekeeper",
    "safekeeper/client",
@@ -22,15 +21,11 @@ members = [
    "libs/http-utils",
    "libs/pageserver_api",
    "libs/postgres_ffi",
-    "libs/postgres_ffi_types",
-    "libs/postgres_versioninfo",
    "libs/safekeeper_api",
    "libs/desim",
-    "libs/neon-shmem",
    "libs/utils",
    "libs/consumption_metrics",
    "libs/postgres_backend",
-    "libs/posthog_client_lite",
    "libs/pq_proto",
    "libs/tenant_size_model",
    "libs/metrics",
@@ -45,7 +40,6 @@ members = [
    "libs/proxy/postgres-protocol2",
    "libs/proxy/postgres-types2",
    "libs/proxy/tokio-postgres2",
-    "endpoint_storage",
 ]

 [workspace.package]
@@ -56,7 +50,7 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 [workspace.dependencies]
 ahash = "0.8"
 anyhow = { version = "1.0", features = ["backtrace"] }
-arc-swap = "1.7"
+arc-swap = "1.6"
 async-compression = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["tokio", "gzip", "zstd"] }
 atomic-take = "1.1.0"
 flate2 = "1.0.26"
@@ -73,8 +67,8 @@ aws-credential-types = "1.2.0"
 aws-sigv4 = { version = "1.2", features = ["sign-http"] }
 aws-types = "1.3"
 axum = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["ws"] }
-axum-extra = { version = "0.10.0", features = ["typed-header", "query"] }
-base64 = "0.22"
+axum-extra = { version = "0.10.0", features = ["typed-header"] }
+base64 = "0.13.0"
 bincode = "1.3"
 bindgen = "0.71"
 bit_field = "0.10.2"
@@ -112,13 +106,13 @@ hostname = "0.4"
 http = {version = "1.1.0", features = ["std"]}
 http-types = { version = "2", default-features = false }
 http-body-util = "0.1.2"
-humantime = "2.2"
+humantime = "2.1"
 humantime-serde = "1.1.1"
 hyper0 = { package = "hyper", version = "0.14" }
 hyper = "1.4"
 hyper-util = "0.1"
 tokio-tungstenite = "0.21.0"
-indexmap = { version = "2", features = ["serde"] }
+indexmap = "2"
 indoc = "2"
 ipnet = "2.10.0"
 itertools = "0.10"
@@ -131,12 +125,12 @@ md5 = "0.7.0"
 measured = { version = "0.0.22", features=["lasso"] }
 measured-process = { version = "0.0.22" }
 memoffset = "0.9"
-nix = { version = "0.30.1", features = ["dir", "fs", "mman", "process", "socket", "signal", "poll"] }
+nix = { version = "0.27", features = ["dir", "fs", "process", "socket", "signal", "poll"] }
 # Do not update to >= 7.0.0, at least. The update will have a significant impact
 # on compute startup metrics (start_postgres_ms), >= 25% degradation.
 notify = "6.0.0"
 num_cpus = "1.15"
-num-traits = "0.2.19"
+num-traits = "0.2.15"
 once_cell = "1.13"
 opentelemetry = "0.27"
 opentelemetry_sdk = "0.27"
@@ -146,14 +140,13 @@ parking_lot = "0.12"
 parquet = { version = "53", default-features = false, features = ["zstd"] }
 parquet_derive = "53"
 pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["simple", "std"] }
-pem = "3.0.3"
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
 pprof = { version = "0.14", features = ["criterion", "flamegraph", "frame-pointer", "prost-codec"] }
 procfs = "0.16"
 prometheus = {version = "0.13", default-features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
-prost = "0.13.5"
+prost = "0.13"
 rand = "0.8"
-redis = { version = "0.29.2", features = ["tokio-rustls-comp", "keep-alive"] }
+redis = { version = "0.25.2", features = ["tokio-rustls-comp", "keep-alive"] }
 regex = "1.10.2"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"] }
 reqwest-tracing = { version = "0.5", features = ["opentelemetry_0_27"] }
@@ -169,19 +162,17 @@ scopeguard = "1.1"
 sysinfo = "0.29.2"
 sd-notify = "0.4.1"
 send-future = "0.1.0"
-sentry = { version = "0.37", default-features = false, features = ["backtrace", "contexts", "panic", "rustls", "reqwest" ] }
+sentry = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["backtrace", "contexts", "panic", "rustls", "reqwest" ] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 serde_path_to_error = "0.1"
-serde_with = { version = "3", features = [ "base64" ] }
+serde_with = { version = "2.0", features = [ "base64" ] }
 serde_assert = "0.5.0"
-serde_repr = "0.1.20"
 sha2 = "0.10.2"
 signal-hook = "0.3"
 smallvec = "1.11"
 smol_str = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["serde"] }
 socket2 = "0.5"
-spki = "0.7.3"
 strum = "0.26"
 strum_macros = "0.26"
 "subtle"  = "2.5.0"
@@ -192,7 +183,7 @@ test-context = "0.3"
 thiserror = "1.0"
 tikv-jemallocator = { version = "0.6", features = ["profiling", "stats", "unprefixed_malloc_on_supported_platforms"] }
 tikv-jemalloc-ctl = { version = "0.6", features = ["stats"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.43.1", features = ["macros"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.41", features = ["macros"] }
 tokio-epoll-uring = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/tokio-epoll-uring.git" , branch = "main" }
 tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.0"
 tokio-postgres-rustls = "0.12.0"
@@ -202,8 +193,7 @@ tokio-tar = "0.3"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.10", features = ["io", "rt"] }
 toml = "0.8"
 toml_edit = "0.22"
-tonic = { version = "0.13.1", default-features = false, features = ["channel", "codegen", "gzip", "prost", "router", "server", "tls-ring", "tls-native-roots", "zstd"] }
-tonic-reflection = { version = "0.13.1", features = ["server"] }
+tonic = {version = "0.12.3", default-features = false, features = ["channel", "tls", "tls-roots"]}
 tower = { version = "0.5.2", default-features = false }
 tower-http = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["auth", "request-id", "trace"] }

@@ -218,7 +208,6 @@ tracing-opentelemetry = "0.28"
 tracing-serde = "0.2.0"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["smallvec", "fmt", "tracing-log", "std", "env-filter", "json"] }
 try-lock = "0.2.5"
-test-log = { version = "0.2.17", default-features = false, features = ["log"] }
 twox-hash = { version = "1.6.3", default-features = false }
 typed-json = "0.1"
 url = "2.2"
@@ -226,10 +215,10 @@ urlencoding = "2.1"
 uuid = { version = "1.6.1", features = ["v4", "v7", "serde"] }
 walkdir = "2.3.2"
 rustls-native-certs = "0.8"
+x509-parser = "0.16"
 whoami = "1.5.1"
-zerocopy = { version = "0.8", features = ["derive", "simd"] }
+zerocopy = { version = "0.7", features = ["derive"] }
 json-structural-diff = { version = "0.2.0" }
-x509-cert = { version = "0.2.5" }

 ## TODO replace this with tracing
 env_logger = "0.11"
@@ -250,34 +239,29 @@ azure_storage_blobs = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/azure-sdk-for-rus
 ## Local libraries
 compute_api = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/compute_api/" }
 consumption_metrics = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/consumption_metrics/" }
-desim = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/desim" }
-endpoint_storage = { version = "0.0.1", path = "./endpoint_storage/" }
 http-utils = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/http-utils/" }
 metrics = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/metrics/" }
 pageserver = { path = "./pageserver" }
 pageserver_api = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/pageserver_api/" }
 pageserver_client = { path = "./pageserver/client" }
 pageserver_compaction = { version = "0.1", path = "./pageserver/compaction/" }
-pageserver_page_api = { path = "./pageserver/page_api" }
 postgres_backend = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/postgres_backend/" }
 postgres_connection = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/postgres_connection/" }
 postgres_ffi = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/postgres_ffi/" }
-postgres_ffi_types = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/postgres_ffi_types/" }
-postgres_versioninfo = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/postgres_versioninfo/" }
 postgres_initdb = { path = "./libs/postgres_initdb" }
-posthog_client_lite = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/posthog_client_lite" }
 pq_proto = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/pq_proto/" }
 remote_storage = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/remote_storage/" }
 safekeeper_api = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/safekeeper_api" }
 safekeeper_client = { path = "./safekeeper/client" }
+desim = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/desim" }
 storage_broker = { version = "0.1", path = "./storage_broker/" } # Note: main broker code is inside the binary crate, so linking with the library shouldn't be heavy.
 storage_controller_client = { path = "./storage_controller/client" }
 tenant_size_model = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/tenant_size_model/" }
 tracing-utils = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/tracing-utils/" }
 utils = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/utils/" }
 vm_monitor = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/vm_monitor/" }
-wal_decoder = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/wal_decoder" }
 walproposer = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/walproposer/" }
+wal_decoder = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/wal_decoder" }

 ## Common library dependency
 workspace_hack = { version = "0.1", path = "./workspace_hack/" }
@@ -287,7 +271,7 @@ criterion = "0.5.1"
 rcgen = "0.13"
 rstest = "0.18"
 camino-tempfile = "1.0.2"
-tonic-build = "0.13.1"
+tonic-build = "0.12"

 [patch.crates-io]

--- a/26
+++ b/26
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 ### The image itself is mainly used as a container for the binaries and for starting e2e tests with custom parameters.
 ### By default, the binaries inside the image have some mock parameters and can start, but are not intended to be used
 ### inside this image in the real deployments.
-ARG REPOSITORY=ghcr.io/neondatabase
+ARG REPOSITORY=neondatabase
 ARG IMAGE=build-tools
 ARG TAG=pinned
+ARG DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=17
+ARG STABLE_PG_VERSION=16
 ARG DEBIAN_VERSION=bookworm
 ARG DEBIAN_FLAVOR=${DEBIAN_VERSION}-slim

@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ COPY --chown=nonroot scripts/ninstall.sh scripts/ninstall.sh
 ENV BUILD_TYPE=release
 RUN set -e \
    && mold -run make -j $(nproc) -s neon-pg-ext \
+    && rm -rf pg_install/build \
    && tar -C pg_install -czf /home/nonroot/postgres_install.tar.gz .

 # Prepare cargo-chef recipe
@@ -60,11 +63,14 @@ FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS build
 WORKDIR /home/nonroot
 ARG GIT_VERSION=local
 ARG BUILD_TAG
+ARG STABLE_PG_VERSION

 COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v14/include/postgresql/server pg_install/v14/include/postgresql/server
 COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v15/include/postgresql/server pg_install/v15/include/postgresql/server
 COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v16/include/postgresql/server pg_install/v16/include/postgresql/server
 COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v17/include/postgresql/server pg_install/v17/include/postgresql/server
+COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v16/lib                       pg_install/v16/lib
+COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_install/v17/lib                       pg_install/v17/lib
 COPY --from=plan     /home/nonroot/recipe.json                              recipe.json

 ARG ADDITIONAL_RUSTFLAGS=""
@@ -83,7 +89,6 @@ RUN set -e \
      --bin storage_broker  \
      --bin storage_controller  \
      --bin proxy  \
-      --bin endpoint_storage \
      --bin neon_local \
      --bin storage_scrubber \
      --locked --release
@@ -91,6 +96,7 @@ RUN set -e \
 # Build final image
 #
 FROM $BASE_IMAGE_SHA
+ARG DEFAULT_PG_VERSION
 WORKDIR /data

 RUN set -e \
@@ -100,20 +106,9 @@ RUN set -e \
        libreadline-dev \
        libseccomp-dev \
        ca-certificates \
+	# System postgres for use with client libraries (e.g. in storage controller)
+        postgresql-15 \
        openssl \
-        unzip \
-        curl \
-    && ARCH=$(uname -m) \
-    && if [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then \
-        curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"; \
-    elif [ "$ARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then \
-        curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-aarch64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"; \
-    else \
-        echo "Unsupported architecture: $ARCH" && exit 1; \
-    fi \
-    && unzip awscliv2.zip \
-    && ./aws/install \
-    && rm -rf aws awscliv2.zip \
    && rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
    && useradd -d /data neon \
@@ -126,7 +121,6 @@ COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/safekeeper
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/storage_broker      /usr/local/bin
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/storage_controller  /usr/local/bin
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/proxy               /usr/local/bin
-COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/endpoint_storage    /usr/local/bin
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/neon_local          /usr/local/bin
 COPY --from=build --chown=neon:neon /home/nonroot/target/release/storage_scrubber    /usr/local/bin

--- a/157
+++ b/157
@@ -1,18 +1,8 @@
 ROOT_PROJECT_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))

-# Where to install Postgres, default is ./pg_install, maybe useful for package
-# managers.
+# Where to install Postgres, default is ./pg_install, maybe useful for package managers
 POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR ?= $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pg_install/

-# CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS: Extra flags to pass to `cargo build`. `--locked`
-# and `--features testing` are popular examples.
-#
-# CARGO_PROFILE: You can also set to override the cargo profile to
-# use. By default, it is derived from BUILD_TYPE.
-
-# All intermediate build artifacts are stored here.
-BUILD_DIR := build
-
 ICU_PREFIX_DIR := /usr/local/icu

 #
@@ -26,12 +16,12 @@ ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),release)
 	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS = --enable-debug --with-openssl
 	PG_CFLAGS += -O2 -g3 $(CFLAGS)
 	PG_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS)
-	CARGO_PROFILE ?= --profile=release
+	# Unfortunately, `--profile=...` is a nightly feature
+	CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS += --release
 else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),debug)
 	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS = --enable-debug --with-openssl --enable-cassert --enable-depend
 	PG_CFLAGS += -O0 -g3 $(CFLAGS)
 	PG_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS)
-	CARGO_PROFILE ?= --profile=dev
 else
 	$(error Bad build type '$(BUILD_TYPE)', see Makefile for options)
 endif
@@ -103,7 +93,7 @@ all: neon postgres neon-pg-ext
 .PHONY: neon
 neon: postgres-headers walproposer-lib cargo-target-dir
 	+@echo "Compiling Neon"
-	$(CARGO_CMD_PREFIX) cargo build $(CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS) $(CARGO_PROFILE)
+	$(CARGO_CMD_PREFIX) cargo build $(CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS)
 .PHONY: cargo-target-dir
 cargo-target-dir:
 	# https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14281
@@ -114,20 +104,21 @@ cargo-target-dir:
 # Some rules are duplicated for Postgres v14 and 15. We may want to refactor
 # to avoid the duplication in the future, but it's tolerable for now.
 #
-$(BUILD_DIR)/%/config.status:
-	mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)
-	test -e $(BUILD_DIR)/CACHEDIR.TAG || echo "$(CACHEDIR_TAG_CONTENTS)" > $(BUILD_DIR)/CACHEDIR.TAG
+$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/%/config.status:
+
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)
+	test -e $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/CACHEDIR.TAG || echo "$(CACHEDIR_TAG_CONTENTS)" > $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/CACHEDIR.TAG

 	+@echo "Configuring Postgres $* build"
 	@test -s $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/configure || { \
 		echo "\nPostgres submodule not found in $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/, execute "; \
 		echo "'git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 2 --progress .' in project root.\n"; \
 		exit 1; }
-	mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)/$*
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*

 	VERSION=$*; \
 	EXTRA_VERSION=$$(cd $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$$VERSION && git rev-parse HEAD); \
-	(cd $(BUILD_DIR)/$$VERSION && \
+	(cd $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$$VERSION && \
 	env PATH="$(EXTRA_PATH_OVERRIDES):$$PATH" $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$$VERSION/configure \
 		CFLAGS='$(PG_CFLAGS)' LDFLAGS='$(PG_LDFLAGS)' \
 		$(PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS) --with-extra-version=" ($$EXTRA_VERSION)" \
@@ -139,52 +130,96 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/%/config.status:
 # the "build-all-versions" entry points) where direct mention of PostgreSQL
 # versions is used.
 .PHONY: postgres-configure-v17
-postgres-configure-v17: $(BUILD_DIR)/v17/config.status
+postgres-configure-v17: $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/v17/config.status
 .PHONY: postgres-configure-v16
-postgres-configure-v16: $(BUILD_DIR)/v16/config.status
+postgres-configure-v16: $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/v16/config.status
 .PHONY: postgres-configure-v15
-postgres-configure-v15: $(BUILD_DIR)/v15/config.status
+postgres-configure-v15: $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/v15/config.status
 .PHONY: postgres-configure-v14
-postgres-configure-v14: $(BUILD_DIR)/v14/config.status
+postgres-configure-v14: $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/v14/config.status

 # Install the PostgreSQL header files into $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/<version>/include
 .PHONY: postgres-headers-%
 postgres-headers-%: postgres-configure-%
 	+@echo "Installing PostgreSQL $* headers"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/src/include MAKELEVEL=0 install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/src/include MAKELEVEL=0 install

 # Compile and install PostgreSQL
 .PHONY: postgres-%
 postgres-%: postgres-configure-% \
 		  postgres-headers-% # to prevent `make install` conflicts with neon's `postgres-headers`
 	+@echo "Compiling PostgreSQL $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$* MAKELEVEL=0 install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$* MAKELEVEL=0 install
+	+@echo "Compiling libpq $*"
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/src/interfaces/libpq install
 	+@echo "Compiling pg_prewarm $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/pg_prewarm install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_prewarm install
 	+@echo "Compiling pg_buffercache $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/pg_buffercache install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_buffercache install
 	+@echo "Compiling pg_visibility $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/pg_visibility install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_visibility install
 	+@echo "Compiling pageinspect $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/pageinspect install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pageinspect install
 	+@echo "Compiling pg_trgm $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/pg_trgm install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_trgm install
 	+@echo "Compiling amcheck $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/amcheck install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/amcheck install
 	+@echo "Compiling test_decoding $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/contrib/test_decoding install
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/test_decoding install
+
+.PHONY: postgres-clean-%
+postgres-clean-%:
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$* MAKELEVEL=0 clean
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_buffercache clean
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pageinspect clean
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/src/interfaces/libpq clean

 .PHONY: postgres-check-%
 postgres-check-%: postgres-%
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$* MAKELEVEL=0 check
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$* MAKELEVEL=0 check

 .PHONY: neon-pg-ext-%
 neon-pg-ext-%: postgres-%
-	+@echo "Compiling neon-specific Postgres extensions for $*"
-	mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)/pgxn-$*
+	+@echo "Compiling neon $*"
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-$*
 	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
-		-C $(BUILD_DIR)/pgxn-$*\
-		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/Makefile  install
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-$* \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon/Makefile install
+	+@echo "Compiling neon_walredo $*"
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-walredo-$*
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-walredo-$* \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_walredo/Makefile install
+	+@echo "Compiling neon_rmgr $*"
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-rmgr-$*
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-rmgr-$* \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_rmgr/Makefile install
+	+@echo "Compiling neon_test_utils $*"
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-test-utils-$*
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-test-utils-$* \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_test_utils/Makefile install
+	+@echo "Compiling neon_utils $*"
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-utils-$*
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-utils-$* \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_utils/Makefile install
+
+.PHONY: neon-pg-clean-ext-%
+neon-pg-clean-ext-%:
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config \
+	-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-$* \
+	-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon/Makefile clean
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config \
+	-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-walredo-$* \
+	-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_walredo/Makefile clean
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config \
+	-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-test-utils-$* \
+	-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_test_utils/Makefile clean
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/$*/bin/pg_config \
+	-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-utils-$* \
+	-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon_utils/Makefile clean

 # Build walproposer as a static library. walproposer source code is located
 # in the pgxn/neon directory.
@@ -198,15 +233,15 @@ neon-pg-ext-%: postgres-%
 .PHONY: walproposer-lib
 walproposer-lib: neon-pg-ext-v17
 	+@echo "Compiling walproposer-lib"
-	mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib
+	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib
 	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
-		-C $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib \
 		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon/Makefile walproposer-lib
-	cp $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/lib/libpgport.a $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib
-	cp $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/lib/libpgcommon.a $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib
-	$(AR) d $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib/libpgport.a \
+	cp $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/lib/libpgport.a $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib
+	cp $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/lib/libpgcommon.a $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib
+	$(AR) d $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib/libpgport.a \
 		pg_strong_random.o
-	$(AR) d $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib/libpgcommon.a \
+	$(AR) d $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib/libpgcommon.a \
 		checksum_helper.o \
 		cryptohash_openssl.o \
 		hmac_openssl.o \
@@ -214,10 +249,16 @@ walproposer-lib: neon-pg-ext-v17
 		parse_manifest.o \
 		scram-common.o
 ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
-	$(AR) d $(BUILD_DIR)/walproposer-lib/libpgcommon.a \
+	$(AR) d $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib/libpgcommon.a \
 		pg_crc32c.o
 endif

+.PHONY: walproposer-lib-clean
+walproposer-lib-clean:
+	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/bin/pg_config \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/walproposer-lib \
+		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon/Makefile clean
+
 .PHONY: neon-pg-ext
 neon-pg-ext: \
 	neon-pg-ext-v14 \
@@ -225,6 +266,13 @@ neon-pg-ext: \
 	neon-pg-ext-v16 \
 	neon-pg-ext-v17

+.PHONY: neon-pg-clean-ext
+neon-pg-clean-ext: \
+	neon-pg-clean-ext-v14 \
+	neon-pg-clean-ext-v15 \
+	neon-pg-clean-ext-v16 \
+	neon-pg-clean-ext-v17
+
 # shorthand to build all Postgres versions
 .PHONY: postgres
 postgres: \
@@ -240,6 +288,13 @@ postgres-headers: \
 	postgres-headers-v16 \
 	postgres-headers-v17

+.PHONY: postgres-clean
+postgres-clean: \
+	postgres-clean-v14 \
+	postgres-clean-v15 \
+	postgres-clean-v16 \
+	postgres-clean-v17
+
 .PHONY: postgres-check
 postgres-check: \
 	postgres-check-v14 \
@@ -247,6 +302,12 @@ postgres-check: \
 	postgres-check-v16 \
 	postgres-check-v17

+# This doesn't remove the effects of 'configure'.
+.PHONY: clean
+clean: postgres-clean neon-pg-clean-ext
+	$(MAKE) -C compute clean
+	$(CARGO_CMD_PREFIX) cargo clean
+
 # This removes everything
 .PHONY: distclean
 distclean:
@@ -259,7 +320,7 @@ fmt:

 postgres-%-pg-bsd-indent: postgres-%
 	+@echo "Compiling pg_bsd_indent"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_DIR)/$*/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/
+	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/

 # Create typedef list for the core. Note that generally it should be combined with
 # buildfarm one to cover platform specific stuff.
@@ -278,7 +339,7 @@ postgres-%-pgindent: postgres-%-pg-bsd-indent postgres-%-typedefs.list
 	cat $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list |\
 		cat - postgres-$*-typedefs.list | sort | uniq > postgres-$*-typedefs-full.list
 	+@echo note: you might want to run it on selected files/dirs instead.
-	INDENT=$(BUILD_DIR)/$*/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/pg_bsd_indent \
+	INDENT=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/pg_bsd_indent \
 		$(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/src/tools/pgindent/pgindent --typedefs postgres-$*-typedefs-full.list \
 		$(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/src/ \
 		--excludes $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/src/tools/pgindent/exclude_file_patterns
@@ -289,9 +350,9 @@ postgres-%-pgindent: postgres-%-pg-bsd-indent postgres-%-typedefs.list
 neon-pgindent: postgres-v17-pg-bsd-indent neon-pg-ext-v17
 	$(MAKE) PG_CONFIG=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v17/bin/pg_config COPT='$(COPT)' \
 		FIND_TYPEDEF=$(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-v17/src/tools/find_typedef \
-		INDENT=$(BUILD_DIR)/v17/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/pg_bsd_indent \
+		INDENT=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/v17/src/tools/pg_bsd_indent/pg_bsd_indent \
 		PGINDENT_SCRIPT=$(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-v17/src/tools/pgindent/pgindent \
-		-C $(BUILD_DIR)/neon-v17 \
+		-C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/neon-v17 \
 		-f $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/pgxn/neon/Makefile pgindent


--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ By default, this runs both debug and release modes, and all supported postgres v
 testing locally, it is convenient to run just one set of permutations, like this:

 ```sh
-DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=17 BUILD_TYPE=release ./scripts/pytest
+DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=16 BUILD_TYPE=release ./scripts/pytest
 ```

 ## Flamegraphs
--- a/build-tools.Dockerfile
+++ b/build-tools.Dockerfile
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ RUN set -e \

 # Keep the version the same as in compute/compute-node.Dockerfile and
 # test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py.
-ENV SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION=0.17.3
+ENV SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION=0.17.0
 RUN curl -fsSL \
    "https://github.com/burningalchemist/sql_exporter/releases/download/${SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION}/sql_exporter-${SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION}.linux-$(case "$(uname -m)" in x86_64) echo amd64;; aarch64) echo arm64;; esac).tar.gz" \
    --output sql_exporter.tar.gz \
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ RUN curl -fsSL "https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v$
    && rm -rf protoc.zip protoc

 # s5cmd
-ENV S5CMD_VERSION=2.3.0
+ENV S5CMD_VERSION=2.2.2
 RUN curl -sL "https://github.com/peak/s5cmd/releases/download/v${S5CMD_VERSION}/s5cmd_${S5CMD_VERSION}_Linux-$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/64bit/g' | sed 's/aarch64/arm64/g').tar.gz" | tar zxvf - s5cmd \
    && chmod +x s5cmd \
    && mv s5cmd /usr/local/bin/s5cmd
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ RUN curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-$(uname -m).zip" -o "aws
    && rm awscliv2.zip

 # Mold: A Modern Linker
-ENV MOLD_VERSION=v2.37.1
+ENV MOLD_VERSION=v2.34.1
 RUN set -e \
    && git clone https://github.com/rui314/mold.git \
    && mkdir mold/build \
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/nonroot
 RUN echo -e "--retry-connrefused\n--connect-timeout 15\n--retry 5\n--max-time 300\n" > /home/nonroot/.curlrc

 # Python
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION=3.11.12 \
+ENV PYTHON_VERSION=3.11.10 \
    PYENV_ROOT=/home/nonroot/.pyenv \
    PATH=/home/nonroot/.pyenv/shims:/home/nonroot/.pyenv/bin:/home/nonroot/.poetry/bin:$PATH
 RUN set -e \
@@ -292,16 +292,16 @@ WORKDIR /home/nonroot

 # Rust
 # Please keep the version of llvm (installed above) in sync with rust llvm (`rustc --version --verbose | grep LLVM`)
-ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.87.0
+ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.85.0
 ENV RUSTUP_HOME="/home/nonroot/.rustup"
 ENV PATH="/home/nonroot/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
 ARG RUSTFILT_VERSION=0.2.1
-ARG CARGO_HAKARI_VERSION=0.9.36
-ARG CARGO_DENY_VERSION=0.18.2
-ARG CARGO_HACK_VERSION=0.6.36
-ARG CARGO_NEXTEST_VERSION=0.9.94
+ARG CARGO_HAKARI_VERSION=0.9.33
+ARG CARGO_DENY_VERSION=0.16.2
+ARG CARGO_HACK_VERSION=0.6.33
+ARG CARGO_NEXTEST_VERSION=0.9.85
 ARG CARGO_CHEF_VERSION=0.1.71
-ARG CARGO_DIESEL_CLI_VERSION=2.2.9
+ARG CARGO_DIESEL_CLI_VERSION=2.2.6
 RUN curl -sSO https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/$(uname -m)-unknown-linux-gnu/rustup-init && whoami && \
 	chmod +x rustup-init && \
 	./rustup-init -y --default-toolchain ${RUSTC_VERSION} && \
@@ -310,13 +310,13 @@ RUN curl -sSO https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/$(uname -m)-unknown-linux
    . "$HOME/.cargo/env" && \
    cargo --version && rustup --version && \
    rustup component add llvm-tools rustfmt clippy && \
-    cargo install rustfilt            --version ${RUSTFILT_VERSION} --locked && \
-    cargo install cargo-hakari        --version ${CARGO_HAKARI_VERSION} --locked && \
-    cargo install cargo-deny          --version ${CARGO_DENY_VERSION} --locked && \
-    cargo install cargo-hack          --version ${CARGO_HACK_VERSION} --locked && \
-    cargo install cargo-nextest       --version ${CARGO_NEXTEST_VERSION} --locked && \
-    cargo install cargo-chef          --version ${CARGO_CHEF_VERSION} --locked && \
-    cargo install diesel_cli          --version ${CARGO_DIESEL_CLI_VERSION} --locked \
+    cargo install rustfilt            --version ${RUSTFILT_VERSION} && \
+    cargo install cargo-hakari        --version ${CARGO_HAKARI_VERSION} && \
+    cargo install cargo-deny --locked --version ${CARGO_DENY_VERSION} && \
+    cargo install cargo-hack          --version ${CARGO_HACK_VERSION} && \
+    cargo install cargo-nextest       --version ${CARGO_NEXTEST_VERSION} && \
+    cargo install cargo-chef --locked --version ${CARGO_CHEF_VERSION} && \
+    cargo install diesel_cli          --version ${CARGO_DIESEL_CLI_VERSION} \
                                      --features postgres-bundled --no-default-features && \
    rm -rf /home/nonroot/.cargo/registry && \
    rm -rf /home/nonroot/.cargo/git
--- a/clippy.toml
+++ b/clippy.toml
@@ -12,5 +12,3 @@ disallowed-macros = [
    # cannot disallow this, because clippy finds used from tokio macros
    #"tokio::pin",
 ]
-
-allow-unwrap-in-tests = true
--- a/compute/.gitignore
+++ b/compute/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,3 @@ etc/neon_collector.yml
 etc/neon_collector_autoscaling.yml
 etc/sql_exporter.yml
 etc/sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml
-
-# Node.js dependencies
-node_modules/
--- a/compute/Makefile
+++ b/compute/Makefile
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ sql_exporter.yml: $(jsonnet_files)
 		--output-file etc/$@ \
 		--tla-str collector_name=neon_collector \
 		--tla-str collector_file=neon_collector.yml \
-		--tla-str 'connection_string=postgresql://cloud_admin@127.0.0.1:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable&application_name=sql_exporter&pgaudit.log=none' \
+		--tla-str 'connection_string=postgresql://cloud_admin@127.0.0.1:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable&application_name=sql_exporter' \
 		etc/sql_exporter.jsonnet

 sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml: $(jsonnet_files)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml: $(jsonnet_files)
 		--output-file etc/$@ \
 		--tla-str collector_name=neon_collector_autoscaling \
 		--tla-str collector_file=neon_collector_autoscaling.yml \
-		--tla-str 'connection_string=postgresql://cloud_admin@127.0.0.1:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable&application_name=sql_exporter_autoscaling&pgaudit.log=none' \
+		--tla-str 'connection_string=postgresql://cloud_admin@127.0.0.1:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable&application_name=sql_exporter_autoscaling' \
 		etc/sql_exporter.jsonnet

 .PHONY: clean
@@ -48,11 +48,3 @@ jsonnetfmt-test:
 .PHONY: jsonnetfmt-format
 jsonnetfmt-format:
 	jsonnetfmt --in-place $(jsonnet_files)
-
-.PHONY: manifest-schema-validation
-manifest-schema-validation: node_modules
-	node_modules/.bin/jsonschema validate -d https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema manifest.schema.json manifest.yaml
-
-node_modules: package.json
-	npm install
-	touch node_modules
--- a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
+++ b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
 # build_and_test.yml github workflow for how that's done.

 ARG PG_VERSION
+ARG REPOSITORY=neondatabase
+ARG IMAGE=build-tools
+ARG TAG=pinned
 ARG BUILD_TAG
 ARG DEBIAN_VERSION=bookworm
 ARG DEBIAN_FLAVOR=${DEBIAN_VERSION}-slim
@@ -146,11 +149,8 @@ RUN case $DEBIAN_VERSION in \
    ninja-build git autoconf automake libtool build-essential bison flex libreadline-dev \
    zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libossp-uuid-dev wget ca-certificates pkg-config libssl-dev \
    libicu-dev libxslt1-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev zstd curl unzip g++ \
-    libclang-dev \
-    jsonnet \
    $VERSION_INSTALLS \
-    && apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
-    useradd -ms /bin/bash nonroot -b /home
+    && apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ RUN cd postgres && \
    eval $CONFIGURE_CMD && \
    make MAKELEVEL=0 -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -s install && \
    make MAKELEVEL=0 -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -s -C contrib/ install && \
+    # Install headers
+    make MAKELEVEL=0 -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -s -C src/include install && \
+    make MAKELEVEL=0 -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -s -C src/interfaces/libpq install && \
    # Enable some of contrib extensions
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/autoinc.control && \
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/dblink.control && \
@@ -294,7 +297,6 @@ RUN ./autogen.sh && \
    ./configure --with-sfcgal=/usr/local/bin/sfcgal-config && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
-    make staged-install && \
    cd extensions/postgis && \
    make clean && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
@@ -367,7 +369,7 @@ FROM build-deps AS plv8-src
 ARG PG_VERSION
 WORKDIR /ext-src

-COPY compute/patches/plv8* .
+COPY compute/patches/plv8-3.1.10.patch .

 # plv8 3.2.3 supports v17
 # last release v3.2.3 - Sep 7, 2024
@@ -391,7 +393,7 @@ RUN case "${PG_VERSION:?}" in \
    git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 --branch ${PLV8_TAG} https://github.com/plv8/plv8.git plv8-src && \
    tar -czf plv8.tar.gz --exclude .git plv8-src && \
    cd plv8-src && \
-    if [[ "${PG_VERSION:?}" < "v17" ]]; then patch -p1 < /ext-src/plv8_v3.1.10.patch; else patch -p1 < /ext-src/plv8_v3.2.3.patch; fi
+    if [[ "${PG_VERSION:?}" < "v17" ]]; then patch -p1 < /ext-src/plv8-3.1.10.patch; fi

 # Step 1: Build the vendored V8 engine. It doesn't depend on PostgreSQL, so use
 # 'build-deps' as the base. This enables caching and avoids unnecessary rebuilds.
@@ -580,38 +582,6 @@ RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/hypopg.control

-#########################################################################################
-#
-# Layer "online_advisor-build"
-# compile online_advisor extension
-#
-#########################################################################################
-FROM build-deps AS online_advisor-src
-ARG PG_VERSION
-
-# online_advisor supports all Postgres version starting from PG14, but prior to PG17 has to be included in preload_shared_libraries
-# last release 1.0 - May 15, 2025
-WORKDIR /ext-src
-RUN case "${PG_VERSION:?}" in \
-    "v17") \
-        ;; \
-    *) \
-        echo "skipping the version of online_advistor for $PG_VERSION" && exit 0 \
-        ;; \
-    esac && \
-	wget https://github.com/knizhnik/online_advisor/archive/refs/tags/1.0.tar.gz -O online_advisor.tar.gz && \
-    echo "37dcadf8f7cc8d6cc1f8831276ee245b44f1b0274f09e511e47a67738ba9ed0f online_advisor.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
-    mkdir online_advisor-src && cd online_advisor-src && tar xzf ../online_advisor.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C .
-
-FROM pg-build AS online_advisor-build
-COPY --from=online_advisor-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
-WORKDIR /ext-src/
-RUN if [ -d online_advisor-src ]; then \
-	    cd online_advisor-src && \
-        make -j install && \
-        echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/online_advisor.control; \
-    fi
-
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layer "pg_hashids-build"
@@ -1054,10 +1024,50 @@ RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \

 #########################################################################################
 #
-# Layer "build-deps with Rust toolchain installed"
+# Layer "pg_embedding-build"
+# compile pg_embedding extension
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM build-deps AS build-deps-with-cargo
+FROM build-deps AS pg_embedding-src
+ARG PG_VERSION
+
+# This is our extension, support stopped in favor of pgvector
+# TODO: deprecate it
+WORKDIR /ext-src
+RUN case "${PG_VERSION:?}" in \
+      "v14" | "v15") \
+        export PG_EMBEDDING_VERSION=0.3.5 \
+        export PG_EMBEDDING_CHECKSUM=0e95b27b8b6196e2cf0a0c9ec143fe2219b82e54c5bb4ee064e76398cbe69ae9 \
+        ;; \
+      *) \
+        echo "pg_embedding not supported on this PostgreSQL version. Use pgvector instead." && exit 0;; \
+    esac && \
+    wget https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_embedding/archive/refs/tags/${PG_EMBEDDING_VERSION}.tar.gz -O pg_embedding.tar.gz && \
+    echo "${PG_EMBEDDING_CHECKSUM} pg_embedding.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pg_embedding-src && cd pg_embedding-src && tar xzf ../pg_embedding.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C .
+
+FROM pg-build AS pg_embedding-build
+COPY --from=pg_embedding-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
+WORKDIR /ext-src/
+RUN  if [ -d pg_embedding-src ]; then \
+        cd pg_embedding-src && \
+        make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
+        make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install; \
+    fi
+
+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg build with nonroot user and cargo installed"
+# This layer is base and common for layers with `pgrx`
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM pg-build AS pg-build-nonroot-with-cargo
+ARG PG_VERSION
+
+RUN apt update && \
+    apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests -y curl libclang-dev && \
+    apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+    useradd -ms /bin/bash nonroot -b /home

 ENV HOME=/home/nonroot
 ENV PATH="/home/nonroot/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
@@ -1072,29 +1082,13 @@ RUN curl -sSO https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/$(uname -m)-unknown-linux
    ./rustup-init -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain stable && \
    rm rustup-init

-#########################################################################################
-#
-# Layer "pg-build with Rust toolchain installed"
-# This layer is base and common for layers with `pgrx`
-#
-#########################################################################################
-FROM pg-build AS pg-build-with-cargo
-ARG PG_VERSION
-
-ENV HOME=/home/nonroot
-ENV PATH="/home/nonroot/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
-USER nonroot
-WORKDIR /home/nonroot
-
-COPY --from=build-deps-with-cargo /home/nonroot /home/nonroot
-
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layer "rust extensions"
 # This layer is used to build `pgrx` deps
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM pg-build-with-cargo AS rust-extensions-build
+FROM pg-build-nonroot-with-cargo AS rust-extensions-build
 ARG PG_VERSION

 RUN case "${PG_VERSION:?}" in \
@@ -1116,7 +1110,7 @@ USER root
 # and eventually get merged with `rust-extensions-build`
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM pg-build-with-cargo AS rust-extensions-build-pgrx12
+FROM pg-build-nonroot-with-cargo AS rust-extensions-build-pgrx12
 ARG PG_VERSION

 RUN cargo install --locked --version 0.12.9 cargo-pgrx && \
@@ -1124,23 +1118,6 @@ RUN cargo install --locked --version 0.12.9 cargo-pgrx && \

 USER root

-#########################################################################################
-#
-# Layer "rust extensions pgrx14"
-#
-# Version 14 is now required by a few
-# This layer should be used as a base for new pgrx extensions,
-# and eventually get merged with `rust-extensions-build`
-#
-#########################################################################################
-FROM pg-build-with-cargo AS rust-extensions-build-pgrx14
-ARG PG_VERSION
-
-RUN cargo install --locked --version 0.14.1 cargo-pgrx && \
-    /bin/bash -c 'cargo pgrx init --pg${PG_VERSION:1}=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config'
-
-USER root
-
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layers "pg-onnx-build" and "pgrag-build"
@@ -1150,19 +1127,17 @@ USER root

 FROM build-deps AS pgrag-src
 ARG PG_VERSION
-WORKDIR /ext-src
-COPY compute/patches/onnxruntime.patch .

+WORKDIR /ext-src
 RUN wget https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/archive/refs/tags/v1.18.1.tar.gz -O onnxruntime.tar.gz && \
    mkdir onnxruntime-src && cd onnxruntime-src && tar xzf ../onnxruntime.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    patch -p1 < /ext-src/onnxruntime.patch && \
    echo "#nothing to test here" > neon-test.sh

-RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase-labs/pgrag/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.2.tar.gz -O pgrag.tar.gz &&  \
-    echo "7361654ea24f08cbb9db13c2ee1c0fe008f6114076401bb871619690dafc5225 pgrag.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase-labs/pgrag/archive/refs/tags/v0.0.0.tar.gz -O pgrag.tar.gz &&  \
+    echo "2cbe394c1e74fc8bcad9b52d5fbbfb783aef834ca3ce44626cfd770573700bb4 pgrag.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pgrag-src && cd pgrag-src && tar xzf ../pgrag.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C .

-FROM rust-extensions-build-pgrx14 AS pgrag-build
+FROM rust-extensions-build-pgrx12 AS pgrag-build
 COPY --from=pgrag-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/

 # Install build-time dependencies
@@ -1182,21 +1157,21 @@ RUN . venv/bin/activate && \

 WORKDIR /ext-src/pgrag-src
 RUN cd exts/rag && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.14.1"/pgrx = { version = "0.14.1", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.12.6"/pgrx = { version = "0.12.9", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    cargo pgrx install --release && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/rag.control

 RUN cd exts/rag_bge_small_en_v15 && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.14.1"/pgrx = { version = "0.14.1", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.12.6"/pgrx = { version = "0.12.9", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    ORT_LIB_LOCATION=/ext-src/onnxruntime-src/build/Linux \
-        REMOTE_ONNX_URL=http://pg-ext-s3-gateway.pg-ext-s3-gateway.svc.cluster.local/pgrag-data/bge_small_en_v15.onnx \
+        REMOTE_ONNX_URL=http://pg-ext-s3-gateway/pgrag-data/bge_small_en_v15.onnx \
        cargo pgrx install --release --features remote_onnx && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/rag_bge_small_en_v15.control

 RUN cd exts/rag_jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.14.1"/pgrx = { version = "0.14.1", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.12.6"/pgrx = { version = "0.12.9", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    ORT_LIB_LOCATION=/ext-src/onnxruntime-src/build/Linux \
-        REMOTE_ONNX_URL=http://pg-ext-s3-gateway.pg-ext-s3-gateway.svc.cluster.local/pgrag-data/jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en.onnx \
+        REMOTE_ONNX_URL=http://pg-ext-s3-gateway/pgrag-data/jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en.onnx \
        cargo pgrx install --release --features remote_onnx && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/rag_jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en.control

@@ -1363,8 +1338,8 @@ ARG PG_VERSION
 # Do not update without approve from proxy team
 # Make sure the version is reflected in proxy/src/serverless/local_conn_pool.rs
 WORKDIR /ext-src
-RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_session_jwt/archive/refs/tags/v0.3.1.tar.gz -O pg_session_jwt.tar.gz && \
-    echo "62fec9e472cb805c53ba24a0765afdb8ea2720cfc03ae7813e61687b36d1b0ad pg_session_jwt.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_session_jwt/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz -O pg_session_jwt.tar.gz && \
+    echo "5ace028e591f2e000ca10afa5b1ca62203ebff014c2907c0ec3b29c36f28a1bb pg_session_jwt.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pg_session_jwt-src && cd pg_session_jwt-src && tar xzf ../pg_session_jwt.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.12.6"/pgrx = { version = "0.12.9", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    sed -i 's/version = "0.12.6"/version = "0.12.9"/g' pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml && \
@@ -1383,33 +1358,20 @@ RUN cargo pgrx install --release
 # compile anon extension
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM pg-build AS pg_anon-src
+FROM rust-extensions-build-pgrx12 AS pg-anon-pg-build
 ARG PG_VERSION
 COPY --from=pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
-WORKDIR /ext-src
-COPY compute/patches/anon_v2.patch .

 # This is an experimental extension, never got to real production.
 # !Do not remove! It can be present in shared_preload_libraries and compute will fail to start if library is not found.
 ENV PATH="/usr/local/pgsql/bin/:$PATH"
-RUN wget https://gitlab.com/dalibo/postgresql_anonymizer/-/archive/2.1.0/postgresql_anonymizer-latest.tar.gz -O pg_anon.tar.gz && \
-    echo "48e7f5ae2f1ca516df3da86c5c739d48dd780a4e885705704ccaad0faa89d6c0  pg_anon.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://gitlab.com/dalibo/postgresql_anonymizer/-/archive/latest/postgresql_anonymizer-latest.tar.gz -O pg_anon.tar.gz && \
    mkdir pg_anon-src && cd pg_anon-src && tar xzf ../pg_anon.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
    find /usr/local/pgsql -type f | sed 's|^/usr/local/pgsql/||' > /before.txt && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.14.1"/pgrx = { version = "=0.14.1", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
-    patch -p1 < /ext-src/anon_v2.patch
-
-FROM rust-extensions-build-pgrx14 AS pg-anon-pg-build
-ARG PG_VERSION
-COPY --from=pg_anon-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
-WORKDIR /ext-src
-RUN cd pg_anon-src && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.12.9"/pgrx = { version = "=0.12.9", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) extension PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config PGVER=pg$(echo "$PG_VERSION" | sed 's/^v//') && \
    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install PG_CONFIG=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config PGVER=pg$(echo "$PG_VERSION" | sed 's/^v//') && \
-    chmod -R a+r ../pg_anon-src && \
-    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/anon.control;
-
-########################################################################################
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/anon.control

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -1565,20 +1527,20 @@ ARG PG_VERSION
 WORKDIR /ext-src
 RUN case "${PG_VERSION}" in \
    "v14") \
-    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=1.6.3 \
-    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=37a8f5a7cc8d9188e536d15cf0fdc457fcdab2547caedb54442c37f124110919 \
+    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=1.6.2 \
+    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=1f350d70a0cbf488c0f2b485e3a5c9b11f78ad9e3cbb95ef6904afa1eb3187eb \
    ;; \
    "v15") \
-    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=1.7.1 \
-    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=e9c8e6e092d82b2f901d72555ce0fe7780552f35f8985573796cd7e64b09d4ec \
+    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=1.7.0 \
+    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=8f4a73e451c88c567e516e6cba7dc1e23bc91686bb6f1f77f8f3126d428a8bd8 \
    ;; \
    "v16") \
-    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=16.1 \
-    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=3bae908ab70ba0c6f51224009dbcfff1a97bd6104c6273297a64292e1b921fee \
+    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=16.0 \
+    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=d53ef985f2d0b15ba25c512c4ce967dce07b94fd4422c95bd04c4c1a055fe738 \
    ;; \
    "v17") \
-    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=17.1 \
-    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=9c5f37504d393486cc75d2ced83f75f5899be64fa85f689d6babb833b4361e6c \
+    export PGAUDIT_VERSION=17.0 \
+    export PGAUDIT_CHECKSUM=7d0d08d030275d525f36cd48b38c6455f1023da863385badff0cec44965bfd8c \
    ;; \
    *) \
    echo "pgaudit is not supported on this PostgreSQL version" && exit 1;; \
@@ -1629,7 +1591,18 @@ FROM pg-build AS neon-ext-build
 ARG PG_VERSION

 COPY pgxn/ pgxn/
-RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) -C pgxn -s install-compute
+RUN make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
+        -C pgxn/neon \
+        -s install && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
+        -C pgxn/neon_utils \
+        -s install && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
+        -C pgxn/neon_test_utils \
+        -s install && \
+    make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
+        -C pgxn/neon_rmgr \
+        -s install

 #########################################################################################
 #
@@ -1678,7 +1651,6 @@ COPY --from=pg_jsonschema-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_graphql-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_tiktoken-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=hypopg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
-COPY --from=online_advisor-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_hashids-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=rum-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pgtap-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
@@ -1696,8 +1668,8 @@ COPY --from=rdkit-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_uuidv7-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_roaringbitmap-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_semver-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
+COPY --from=pg_embedding-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=wal2json-build /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/pgsql
-COPY --from=pg-anon-pg-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_ivm-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_partman-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_mooncake-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
@@ -1719,7 +1691,7 @@ FROM extensions-${EXTENSIONS} AS neon-pg-ext-build
 # Compile the Neon-specific `compute_ctl`, `fast_import`, and `local_proxy` binaries
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM build-deps-with-cargo AS compute-tools
+FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS compute-tools
 ARG BUILD_TAG
 ENV BUILD_TAG=$BUILD_TAG

@@ -1729,7 +1701,7 @@ COPY --chown=nonroot . .
 RUN --mount=type=cache,uid=1000,target=/home/nonroot/.cargo/registry \
    --mount=type=cache,uid=1000,target=/home/nonroot/.cargo/git \
    --mount=type=cache,uid=1000,target=/home/nonroot/target \
-    cargo build --locked --profile release-line-debug-size-lto --bin compute_ctl --bin fast_import --bin local_proxy && \
+    mold -run cargo build --locked --profile release-line-debug-size-lto --bin compute_ctl --bin fast_import --bin local_proxy && \
    mkdir target-bin && \
    cp target/release-line-debug-size-lto/compute_ctl \
       target/release-line-debug-size-lto/fast_import \
@@ -1755,17 +1727,15 @@ RUN set -e \
        libevent-dev \
        libtool \
        pkg-config \
-        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
-        libssl-dev \
    && apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

 # Use `dist_man_MANS=` to skip manpage generation (which requires python3/pandoc)
-ENV PGBOUNCER_TAG=pgbouncer_1_24_1
+ENV PGBOUNCER_TAG=pgbouncer_1_22_1
 RUN set -e \
    && git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 --branch ${PGBOUNCER_TAG} https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.git pgbouncer \
    && cd pgbouncer \
    && ./autogen.sh \
-    && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgbouncer \
+    && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgbouncer --without-openssl \
    && make -j $(nproc) dist_man_MANS= \
    && make install dist_man_MANS=

@@ -1782,17 +1752,17 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then\
        postgres_exporter_sha256='59aa4a7bb0f7d361f5e05732f5ed8c03cc08f78449cef5856eadec33a627694b';\
        pgbouncer_exporter_sha256='c9f7cf8dcff44f0472057e9bf52613d93f3ffbc381ad7547a959daa63c5e84ac';\
-        sql_exporter_sha256='9a41127a493e8bfebfe692bf78c7ed2872a58a3f961ee534d1b0da9ae584aaab';\
+        sql_exporter_sha256='38e439732bbf6e28ca4a94d7bc3686d3fa1abdb0050773d5617a9efdb9e64d08';\
    else\
        postgres_exporter_sha256='d1dedea97f56c6d965837bfd1fbb3e35a3b4a4556f8cccee8bd513d8ee086124';\
        pgbouncer_exporter_sha256='217c4afd7e6492ae904055bc14fe603552cf9bac458c063407e991d68c519da3';\
-        sql_exporter_sha256='530e6afc77c043497ed965532c4c9dfa873bc2a4f0b3047fad367715c0081d6a';\
+        sql_exporter_sha256='11918b00be6e2c3a67564adfdb2414fdcbb15a5db76ea17d1d1a944237a893c6';\
    fi\
    && curl -sL https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/releases/download/v0.17.1/postgres_exporter-0.17.1.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
     | tar xzf - --strip-components=1 -C.\
    && curl -sL https://github.com/prometheus-community/pgbouncer_exporter/releases/download/v0.10.2/pgbouncer_exporter-0.10.2.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
     | tar xzf - --strip-components=1 -C.\
-    && curl -sL https://github.com/burningalchemist/sql_exporter/releases/download/0.17.3/sql_exporter-0.17.3.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
+    && curl -sL https://github.com/burningalchemist/sql_exporter/releases/download/0.17.0/sql_exporter-0.17.0.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
     | tar xzf - --strip-components=1 -C.\
    && echo "${postgres_exporter_sha256} postgres_exporter" | sha256sum -c -\
    && echo "${pgbouncer_exporter_sha256} pgbouncer_exporter" | sha256sum -c -\
@@ -1823,11 +1793,10 @@ RUN rm /usr/local/pgsql/lib/lib*.a
 # Preprocess the sql_exporter configuration files
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM build-deps AS sql_exporter_preprocessor
+FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS sql_exporter_preprocessor
 ARG PG_VERSION

 USER nonroot
-WORKDIR /home/nonroot

 COPY --chown=nonroot compute compute

@@ -1841,27 +1810,12 @@ RUN make PG_VERSION="${PG_VERSION:?}" -C compute

 FROM pg-build AS extension-tests
 ARG PG_VERSION
-# This is required for the PostGIS test
-RUN apt-get update && case $DEBIAN_VERSION in \
-      bullseye) \
-        apt-get install -y libproj19 libgdal28 time; \
-      ;; \
-      bookworm) \
-        apt-get install -y libgdal32 libproj25 time; \
-      ;; \
-      *) \
-        echo "Unknown Debian version ${DEBIAN_VERSION}" && exit 1 \
-      ;; \
-    esac
-
 COPY docker-compose/ext-src/ /ext-src/

 COPY --from=pg-build /postgres /postgres
-COPY --from=postgis-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
-COPY --from=postgis-build /ext-src/postgis-src /ext-src/postgis-src
-COPY --from=postgis-build /sfcgal/* /usr
+#COPY --from=postgis-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=plv8-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
-COPY --from=h3-pg-src /ext-src/h3-pg-src /ext-src/h3-pg-src
+#COPY --from=h3-pg-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=postgresql-unit-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pgvector-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pgjwt-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
@@ -1870,7 +1824,6 @@ COPY --from=pgjwt-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_graphql-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 #COPY --from=pg_tiktoken-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=hypopg-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
-COPY --from=online_advisor-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_hashids-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=rum-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pgtap-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
@@ -1890,6 +1843,7 @@ COPY --from=pg_cron-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_uuidv7-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_roaringbitmap-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_semver-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
+#COPY --from=pg_embedding-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 #COPY --from=wal2json-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_ivm-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 COPY --from=pg_partman-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
@@ -1900,9 +1854,8 @@ COPY compute/patches/pg_repack.patch /ext-src
 RUN cd /ext-src/pg_repack-src && patch -p1 </ext-src/pg_repack.patch && rm -f /ext-src/pg_repack.patch

 COPY --chmod=755 docker-compose/run-tests.sh /run-tests.sh
-RUN echo /usr/local/pgsql/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-neon.conf && /sbin/ldconfig
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libtap-parser-sourcehandler-pgtap-perl jq \
-   && apt clean && rm -rf /ext-src/*.tar.gz /ext-src/*.patch /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libtap-parser-sourcehandler-pgtap-perl\
+   && apt clean && rm -rf /ext-src/*.tar.gz /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 ENV PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
 ENV PGHOST=compute
 ENV PGPORT=55433
@@ -1953,30 +1906,26 @@ RUN apt update && \
      ;; \
    esac && \
    apt install --no-install-recommends -y \
-        ca-certificates \
        gdb \
-        iproute2 \
+        liblz4-1 \
+        libreadline8 \
        libboost-iostreams1.74.0 \
        libboost-regex1.74.0 \
        libboost-serialization1.74.0 \
        libboost-system1.74.0 \
-        libcurl4 \
-        libevent-2.1-7 \
-        libgeos-c1v5 \
-        liblz4-1 \
        libossp-uuid16 \
+        libgeos-c1v5 \
        libprotobuf-c1 \
-        libreadline8 \
        libsfcgal1 \
        libxml2 \
        libxslt1.1 \
        libzstd1 \
+        libcurl4 \
+        libevent-2.1-7 \
        locales \
-        lsof \
        procps \
+        ca-certificates \
        rsyslog \
-        screen \
-        tcpdump \
        $VERSION_INSTALLS && \
    apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* && \
    localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
@@ -2020,8 +1969,7 @@ COPY --from=sql_exporter_preprocessor --chmod=0644 /home/nonroot/compute/etc/sql
 COPY --from=sql_exporter_preprocessor --chmod=0644 /home/nonroot/compute/etc/neon_collector_autoscaling.yml /etc/neon_collector_autoscaling.yml

 # Make the libraries we built available
-COPY --chmod=0666 compute/etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-neon.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-neon.conf
-RUN /sbin/ldconfig
+RUN echo '/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf && /sbin/ldconfig

 # rsyslog config permissions
 # directory for rsyslogd pid file
--- a/compute/etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-neon.conf
+++ b/compute/etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-neon.conf
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/local/lib
--- a/compute/etc/neon_collector.jsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/neon_collector.jsonnet
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
    import 'sql_exporter/getpage_prefetch_requests_total.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/getpage_prefetches_buffered.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/getpage_sync_requests_total.libsonnet',
-    import 'sql_exporter/compute_getpage_stuck_requests_total.libsonnet',
-    import 'sql_exporter/compute_getpage_max_inflight_stuck_time_ms.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/getpage_wait_seconds_bucket.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/getpage_wait_seconds_count.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/getpage_wait_seconds_sum.libsonnet',
@@ -35,7 +33,6 @@
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_hits.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_misses.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_used.libsonnet',
-    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_writes.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/logical_slot_restart_lsn.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/max_cluster_size.libsonnet',
--- a/compute/etc/pgbouncer.ini
+++ b/compute/etc/pgbouncer.ini
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ unix_socket_dir=/tmp/
 unix_socket_mode=0777
 ; required for pgbouncer_exporter
 ignore_startup_parameters=extra_float_digits
-; pidfile for graceful termination
-pidfile=/tmp/pgbouncer.pid

 ;; Disable connection logging. It produces a lot of logs that no one looks at,
 ;; and we can get similar log entries from the proxy too. We had incidents in
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/compute_getpage_max_inflight_stuck_time_ms.libsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/compute_getpage_max_inflight_stuck_time_ms.libsonnet
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{
-  metric_name: 'compute_getpage_max_inflight_stuck_time_ms',
-  type: 'gauge',
-  help: 'Max wait time for stuck requests among all backends. Includes only active stuck requests, terminated or disconnected ones are not accounted for',
-  values: [
-    'compute_getpage_max_inflight_stuck_time_ms',
-  ],
-  query_ref: 'neon_perf_counters',
-}
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/compute_getpage_stuck_requests_total.libsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/compute_getpage_stuck_requests_total.libsonnet
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{
-  metric_name: 'compute_getpage_stuck_requests_total',
-  type: 'counter',
-  help: 'Total number of Getpage requests left without an answer for more than pageserver_response_log_timeout but less than pageserver_response_disconnect_timeout',
-  values: [
-    'compute_getpage_stuck_requests_total',
-  ],
-  query_ref: 'neon_perf_counters',
-}
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.libsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.libsonnet
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  metric_name: 'lfc_used_pages',
-  type: 'gauge',
-  help: 'LFC pages used',
-  key_labels: null,
-  values: [
-    'lfc_used_pages',
-  ],
-  query: importstr 'sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.sql',
-}
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.sql
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.sql
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SELECT lfc_value AS lfc_used_pages FROM neon.neon_lfc_stats WHERE lfc_key = 'file_cache_used_pages';
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/neon_perf_counters.sql
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/neon_perf_counters.sql
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ SELECT d.* FROM pg_catalog.jsonb_to_record((SELECT jb FROM c)) AS d(
  getpage_wait_seconds_sum numeric,
  getpage_prefetch_requests_total numeric,
  getpage_sync_requests_total numeric,
-  compute_getpage_stuck_requests_total numeric,
-  compute_getpage_max_inflight_stuck_time_ms numeric,
  getpage_prefetch_misses_total numeric,
  getpage_prefetch_discards_total numeric,
  getpage_prefetches_buffered numeric,
--- a/compute/manifest.schema.json
+++ b/compute/manifest.schema.json
@@ -1,209 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
-  "title": "Neon Compute Manifest Schema",
-  "description": "Schema for Neon compute node configuration manifest",
-  "type": "object",
-  "properties": {
-    "pg_settings": {
-      "type": "object",
-      "properties": {
-        "common": {
-          "type": "object",
-          "properties": {
-            "client_connection_check_interval": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Check for client disconnection interval in milliseconds"
-            },
-            "effective_io_concurrency": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Effective IO concurrency setting"
-            },
-            "fsync": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether to force fsync to disk"
-            },
-            "hot_standby": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether hot standby is enabled"
-            },
-            "idle_in_transaction_session_timeout": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Timeout for idle transactions in milliseconds"
-            },
-            "listen_addresses": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Addresses to listen on"
-            },
-            "log_connections": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether to log connections"
-            },
-            "log_disconnections": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether to log disconnections"
-            },
-            "log_temp_files": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Size threshold for logging temporary files in KB"
-            },
-            "log_error_verbosity": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["terse", "verbose", "default"],
-              "description": "Error logging verbosity level"
-            },
-            "log_min_error_statement": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Minimum error level for statement logging"
-            },
-            "maintenance_io_concurrency": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maintenance IO concurrency setting"
-            },
-            "max_connections": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maximum number of connections"
-            },
-            "max_replication_flush_lag": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maximum replication flush lag"
-            },
-            "max_replication_slots": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maximum number of replication slots"
-            },
-            "max_replication_write_lag": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maximum replication write lag"
-            },
-            "max_wal_senders": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maximum number of WAL senders"
-            },
-            "max_wal_size": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Maximum WAL size"
-            },
-            "neon.unstable_extensions": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "List of unstable extensions"
-            },
-            "neon.protocol_version": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Neon protocol version"
-            },
-            "password_encryption": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Password encryption method"
-            },
-            "restart_after_crash": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether to restart after crash"
-            },
-            "superuser_reserved_connections": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Number of reserved connections for superuser"
-            },
-            "synchronous_standby_names": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "Names of synchronous standby servers"
-            },
-            "wal_keep_size": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "WAL keep size"
-            },
-            "wal_level": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "WAL level"
-            },
-            "wal_log_hints": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether to log hints in WAL"
-            },
-            "wal_sender_timeout": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "description": "WAL sender timeout in milliseconds"
-            }
-          },
-          "required": [
-            "client_connection_check_interval",
-            "effective_io_concurrency",
-            "fsync",
-            "hot_standby",
-            "idle_in_transaction_session_timeout",
-            "listen_addresses",
-            "log_connections",
-            "log_disconnections",
-            "log_temp_files",
-            "log_error_verbosity",
-            "log_min_error_statement",
-            "maintenance_io_concurrency",
-            "max_connections",
-            "max_replication_flush_lag",
-            "max_replication_slots",
-            "max_replication_write_lag",
-            "max_wal_senders",
-            "max_wal_size",
-            "neon.unstable_extensions",
-            "neon.protocol_version",
-            "password_encryption",
-            "restart_after_crash",
-            "superuser_reserved_connections",
-            "synchronous_standby_names",
-            "wal_keep_size",
-            "wal_level",
-            "wal_log_hints",
-            "wal_sender_timeout"
-          ]
-        },
-        "replica": {
-          "type": "object",
-          "properties": {
-            "hot_standby": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "enum": ["on", "off"],
-              "description": "Whether hot standby is enabled for replicas"
-            }
-          },
-          "required": ["hot_standby"]
-        },
-        "per_version": {
-          "type": "object",
-          "patternProperties": {
-            "^1[4-7]$": {
-              "type": "object",
-              "properties": {
-                "common": {
-                  "type": "object",
-                  "properties": {
-                    "io_combine_limit": {
-                      "type": "string",
-                      "description": "IO combine limit"
-                    }
-                  }
-                },
-                "replica": {
-                  "type": "object",
-                  "properties": {
-                    "recovery_prefetch": {
-                      "type": "string",
-                      "enum": ["on", "off"],
-                      "description": "Whether to enable recovery prefetch for PostgreSQL replicas"
-                    }
-                  }
-                }
-              }
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      },
-      "required": ["common", "replica", "per_version"]
-    }
-  },
-  "required": ["pg_settings"]
-} 
--- a/compute/manifest.yaml
+++ b/compute/manifest.yaml
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-pg_settings:
-  # Common settings for primaries and replicas of all versions.
-  common:
-    # Check for client disconnection every 1 minute. By default, Postgres will detect the
-    # loss of the connection only at the next interaction with the socket, when it waits
-    # for, receives or sends data, so it will likely waste resources till the end of the
-    # query execution. There should be no drawbacks in setting this for everyone, so enable
-    # it by default. If anyone will complain, we can allow editing it.
-    # https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/runtime-config-connection.html#GUC-CLIENT-CONNECTION-CHECK-INTERVAL
-    client_connection_check_interval: "60000" # 1 minute
-    # ---- IO ---- 
-    effective_io_concurrency: "20"
-    maintenance_io_concurrency: "100"
-    fsync: "off"
-    hot_standby: "off"
-    # We allow users to change this if needed, but by default we
-    # just don't want to see long-lasting idle transactions, as they
-    # prevent activity monitor from suspending projects.
-    idle_in_transaction_session_timeout: "300000" # 5 minutes
-    listen_addresses: "*"
-    # --- LOGGING ---- helps investigations
-    log_connections: "on"
-    log_disconnections: "on"
-    # 1GB, unit is KB
-    log_temp_files: "1048576"
-    # Disable dumping customer data to logs, both to increase data privacy
-    # and to reduce the amount the logs.
-    log_error_verbosity: "terse"
-    log_min_error_statement: "panic"
-    max_connections: "100"
-    # --- WAL ---
-    # - flush lag is the max amount of WAL that has been generated but not yet stored
-    # to disk in the page server. A smaller value means less delay after a pageserver
-    # restart, but if you set it too small you might again need to slow down writes if the
-    # pageserver cannot flush incoming WAL to disk fast enough. This must be larger
-    # than the pageserver's checkpoint interval, currently 1 GB! Otherwise you get a
-    # a deadlock where the compute node refuses to generate more WAL before the
-    # old WAL has been uploaded to S3, but the pageserver is waiting for more WAL
-    # to be generated before it is uploaded to S3.
-    max_replication_flush_lag: "10GB"
-    max_replication_slots: "10"
-    # Backpressure configuration:
-    # - write lag is the max amount of WAL that has been generated by Postgres but not yet
-    # processed by the page server. Making this smaller reduces the worst case latency
-    # of a GetPage request, if you request a page that was recently modified. On the other
-    # hand, if this is too small, the compute node might need to wait on a write if there is a
-    # hiccup in the network or page server so that the page server has temporarily fallen
-    # behind.
-    #
-    # Previously it was set to 500 MB, but it caused compute being unresponsive under load
-    # https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2028
-    max_replication_write_lag: "500MB"
-    max_wal_senders: "10"
-    # A Postgres checkpoint is cheap in storage, as doesn't involve any significant amount
-    # of real I/O. Only the SLRU buffers and some other small files are flushed to disk.
-    # However, as long as we have full_page_writes=on, page updates after a checkpoint
-    # include full-page images which bloats the WAL. So may want to bump max_wal_size to
-    # reduce the WAL bloating, but at the same it will increase pg_wal directory size on
-    # compute and can lead to out of disk error on k8s nodes.
-    max_wal_size: "1024"
-    wal_keep_size: "0"
-    wal_level: "replica"
-    # Reduce amount of WAL generated by default.
-    wal_log_hints: "off"
-    # - without wal_sender_timeout set we don't get feedback messages,
-    # required for backpressure.
-    wal_sender_timeout: "10000"
-    # We have some experimental extensions, which we don't want users to install unconsciously.
-    # To install them, users would need to set the `neon.allow_unstable_extensions` setting.
-    # There are two of them currently:
-    # - `pgrag` - https://github.com/neondatabase-labs/pgrag - extension is actually called just `rag`,
-    #                                                          and two dependencies:
-    #                                                          - `rag_bge_small_en_v15`
-    #                                                          - `rag_jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en`
-    # - `pg_mooncake` - https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake/  
-    neon.unstable_extensions: "rag,rag_bge_small_en_v15,rag_jina_reranker_v1_tiny_en,pg_mooncake,anon"
-    neon.protocol_version: "3"
-    password_encryption: "scram-sha-256"
-    # This is important to prevent Postgres from trying to perform
-    # a local WAL redo after backend crash. It should exit and let
-    # the systemd or k8s to do a fresh startup with compute_ctl.
-    restart_after_crash: "off"
-    # By default 3. We have the following persistent connections in the VM:
-    # * compute_activity_monitor (from compute_ctl)
-    # * postgres-exporter (metrics collector; it has 2 connections)
-    # * sql_exporter (metrics collector; we have 2 instances [1 for us & users; 1 for autoscaling])
-    # * vm-monitor (to query & change file cache size)
-    # i.e. total of 6. Let's reserve 7, so there's still at least one left over.
-    superuser_reserved_connections: "7"
-    synchronous_standby_names: "walproposer"
-
-  replica:
-    hot_standby: "on"
-
-  per_version:
-    17:
-      common:
-        # PostgreSQL 17 has a new IO system called "read stream", which can combine IOs up to some
-        # size. It still has some issues with readahead, though, so we default to disabled/
-        # "no combining of IOs" to make sure we get the maximum prefetch depth.
-        # See also: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/9860
-        io_combine_limit: "1"
-      replica:
-        # prefetching of blocks referenced in WAL doesn't make sense for us
-        # Neon hot standby ignores pages that are not in the shared_buffers
-        recovery_prefetch: "off"
-    16:
-      common: {}
-      replica:
-        # prefetching of blocks referenced in WAL doesn't make sense for us
-        # Neon hot standby ignores pages that are not in the shared_buffers
-        recovery_prefetch: "off"
-    15:
-      common: {}
-      replica:
-        # prefetching of blocks referenced in WAL doesn't make sense for us
-        # Neon hot standby ignores pages that are not in the shared_buffers
-        recovery_prefetch: "off"
-    14:
-      common: {}
-      replica: {}
--- a/compute/package-lock.json
+++ b/compute/package-lock.json
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "neon-compute",
-  "lockfileVersion": 3,
-  "requires": true,
-  "packages": {
-    "": {
-      "name": "neon-compute",
-      "dependencies": {
-        "@sourcemeta/jsonschema": "9.3.4"
-      }
-    },
-    "node_modules/@sourcemeta/jsonschema": {
-      "version": "9.3.4",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@sourcemeta/jsonschema/-/jsonschema-9.3.4.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-hkujfkZAIGXUs4U//We9faZW8LZ4/H9LqagRYsFSulH/VLcKPNhZyCTGg7AhORuzm27zqENvKpnX4g2FzudYFw==",
-      "cpu": [
-        "x64",
-        "arm64"
-      ],
-      "license": "AGPL-3.0",
-      "os": [
-        "darwin",
-        "linux",
-        "win32"
-      ],
-      "bin": {
-        "jsonschema": "cli.js"
-      },
-      "engines": {
-        "node": ">=16"
-      },
-      "funding": {
-        "url": "https://github.com/sponsors/sourcemeta"
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}
--- a/compute/package.json
+++ b/compute/package.json
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "neon-compute",
-  "private": true,
-  "dependencies": {
-    "@sourcemeta/jsonschema": "9.3.4"
-  }
-} 
--- a/compute/patches/anon_v2.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/anon_v2.patch
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/sql/anon.sql b/sql/anon.sql
-index 0cdc769..f6cc950 100644
--- a/sql/anon.sql
-+++ b/sql/anon.sql
-@@ -1141,3 +1141,8 @@ $$
- -- TODO : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-diversity
- 
- -- TODO : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-closeness
-+
-+-- NEON Patches
-+
-+GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA anon to neon_superuser;
-+GRANT ALL ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA anon TO neon_superuser;
-diff --git a/sql/init.sql b/sql/init.sql
-index 7da6553..9b6164b 100644
--- a/sql/init.sql
-+++ b/sql/init.sql
-@@ -74,50 +74,49 @@ $$
- 
- SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON FUNCTION anon.load_csv IS 'UNTRUSTED';
- 
--- load fake data from a given path
-CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION anon.init(
-  datapath TEXT
-)
-+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION anon.load_fake_data()
- RETURNS BOOLEAN
- AS $$
- DECLARE
-  datapath_check TEXT;
-   success BOOLEAN;
-+  sharedir TEXT;
-+  datapath TEXT;
- BEGIN
- 
-  IF anon.is_initialized() THEN
-    RAISE NOTICE 'The anon extension is already initialized.';
-    RETURN TRUE;
-  END IF;
-+  datapath := '/extension/anon/';
-+  -- find the local extension directory
-+  SELECT setting INTO sharedir
-+  FROM pg_catalog.pg_config
-+  WHERE name = 'SHAREDIR';
- 
-   SELECT bool_or(results) INTO success
-   FROM unnest(array[
-    anon.load_csv('anon.identifiers_category',datapath||'/identifiers_category.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.identifier',datapath ||'/identifier.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.address',datapath ||'/address.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.city',datapath ||'/city.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.company',datapath ||'/company.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.country',datapath ||'/country.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.email', datapath ||'/email.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.first_name',datapath ||'/first_name.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.iban',datapath ||'/iban.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.last_name',datapath ||'/last_name.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.postcode',datapath ||'/postcode.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.siret',datapath ||'/siret.csv'),
-    anon.load_csv('anon.lorem_ipsum',datapath ||'/lorem_ipsum.csv')
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.identifiers_category',sharedir || datapath || '/identifiers_category.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.identifier',sharedir || datapath || '/identifier.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.address',sharedir || datapath || '/address.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.city',sharedir || datapath || '/city.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.company',sharedir || datapath || '/company.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.country',sharedir || datapath || '/country.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.email', sharedir || datapath || '/email.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.first_name',sharedir || datapath || '/first_name.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.iban',sharedir || datapath || '/iban.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.last_name',sharedir || datapath || '/last_name.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.postcode',sharedir || datapath || '/postcode.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.siret',sharedir || datapath || '/siret.csv'),
-+    anon.load_csv('anon.lorem_ipsum',sharedir || datapath || '/lorem_ipsum.csv')
-   ]) results;
-   RETURN success;
-
- END;
- $$
-  LANGUAGE PLPGSQL
-+  LANGUAGE plpgsql
-   VOLATILE
-   RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT
-  PARALLEL UNSAFE -- because load_csv is unsafe
-  SECURITY INVOKER
-+  PARALLEL UNSAFE -- because of the EXCEPTION
-+  SECURITY DEFINER
-   SET search_path=''
- ;
-SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON FUNCTION anon.init(TEXT) IS 'UNTRUSTED';
-+
-+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON FUNCTION anon.load_fake_data IS 'UNTRUSTED';
- 
- -- People tend to forget the anon.init() step
- -- This is a friendly notice for them
-@@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON FUNCTION anon.notice_if_not_init IS 'UNTRUSTED';
- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION anon.load(TEXT)
- RETURNS BOOLEAN AS
- $$
-  SELECT anon.init($1);
-+  SELECT anon.init();
- $$
-   LANGUAGE SQL
-   VOLATILE
-@@ -159,16 +158,16 @@ SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON FUNCTION anon.load(TEXT) IS 'UNTRUSTED';
- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION anon.init()
- RETURNS BOOLEAN
- AS $$
-  WITH conf AS (
-        -- find the local extension directory
-        SELECT setting AS sharedir
-        FROM pg_catalog.pg_config
-        WHERE name = 'SHAREDIR'
-    )
-  SELECT anon.init(conf.sharedir || '/extension/anon/')
-  FROM conf;
-+BEGIN
-+  IF anon.is_initialized() THEN
-+    RAISE NOTICE 'The anon extension is already initialized.';
-+    RETURN TRUE;
-+  END IF;
-+
-+  RETURN anon.load_fake_data();
-+END;
- $$
-  LANGUAGE SQL
-+  LANGUAGE plpgsql
-   VOLATILE
-   PARALLEL UNSAFE -- because init is unsafe
-   SECURITY INVOKER
--- a/compute/patches/cloud_regress_pg16.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/cloud_regress_pg16.patch
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ index cf0b80d616..e8e2a14a4a 100644
 COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT the_constraint ON constraint_comments_tbl IS 'no, the comment';
 ERROR:  must be owner of relation constraint_comments_tbl
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out b/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out
-index d785f92561..16377e5ac9 100644
+index 442e7aff2b..525f732b03 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out
-@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SELECT FROM test_enc_setup();
+@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 CREATE FUNCTION test_enc_conversion(bytea, name, name, bool, validlen OUT int, result OUT bytea)
     AS :'regresslib', 'test_enc_conversion'
     LANGUAGE C STRICT;
@@ -587,15 +587,16 @@ index f551624afb..57f1e432d4 100644
 SELECT *
    INTO TABLE ramp
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/database.out b/src/test/regress/expected/database.out
-index 4cbdbdf84d..573362850e 100644
+index 454db91ec0..01378d7081 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/database.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/database.out
-@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
+@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 CREATE DATABASE regression_tbd
 	ENCODING utf8 LC_COLLATE "C" LC_CTYPE "C" TEMPLATE template0;
 ALTER DATABASE regression_tbd RENAME TO regression_utf8;
 -ALTER DATABASE regression_utf8 SET TABLESPACE regress_tblspace;
 -ALTER DATABASE regression_utf8 RESET TABLESPACE;
+WARNING:  you need to manually restart any running background workers after this command
 ALTER DATABASE regression_utf8 CONNECTION_LIMIT 123;
 -- Test PgDatabaseToastTable.  Doing this with GRANT would be slow.
 BEGIN;
@@ -699,7 +700,7 @@ index 6ed50fdcfa..caa00a345d 100644
 COMMENT ON FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy IS 'useless';
 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER postgresql VALIDATOR postgresql_fdw_validator;
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
-index 84745b9f60..4883c12351 100644
+index 6b8c2f2414..8e13b7fa46 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
@@ -1985,7 +1985,7 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_6 ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_pk_6 FOR VALUES
@@ -1111,7 +1112,7 @@ index 8475231735..0653946337 100644
 DROP ROLE regress_passwd_sha_len1;
 DROP ROLE regress_passwd_sha_len2;
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out b/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
-index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
+index 5b9dba7b32..cc408dad42 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ SELECT lo_unlink(oid) FROM pg_largeobject_metadata WHERE oid >= 1000 AND oid < 3
@@ -1173,8 +1174,8 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 +CREATE GROUP regress_priv_group2 WITH ADMIN regress_priv_user1 PASSWORD NEON_PASSWORD_PLACEHOLDER USER regress_priv_user2;
 ALTER GROUP regress_priv_group1 ADD USER regress_priv_user4;
 GRANT regress_priv_group2 TO regress_priv_user2 GRANTED BY regress_priv_user1;
- SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_priv_user3;
-@@ -246,12 +246,16 @@ GRANT regress_priv_role TO regress_priv_user1 WITH ADMIN OPTION GRANTED BY regre
+ SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_priv_user1;
+@@ -239,12 +239,16 @@ GRANT regress_priv_role TO regress_priv_user1 WITH ADMIN OPTION GRANTED BY regre
 ERROR:  permission denied to grant privileges as role "regress_priv_role"
 DETAIL:  The grantor must have the ADMIN option on role "regress_priv_role".
 GRANT regress_priv_role TO regress_priv_user1 WITH ADMIN OPTION GRANTED BY CURRENT_ROLE;
@@ -1191,7 +1192,7 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 DROP ROLE regress_priv_role;
 SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_priv_user1;
 SELECT session_user, current_user;
-@@ -1783,7 +1787,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
+@@ -1776,7 +1780,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
 
 -- security-restricted operations
 \c -
@@ -1200,7 +1201,7 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 -- Check that index expressions and predicates are run as the table's owner
 -- A dummy index function checking current_user
 CREATE FUNCTION sro_ifun(int) RETURNS int AS $$
-@@ -2675,8 +2679,8 @@ drop cascades to function testns.priv_testagg(integer)
+@@ -2668,8 +2672,8 @@ drop cascades to function testns.priv_testagg(integer)
 drop cascades to function testns.priv_testproc(integer)
 -- Change owner of the schema & and rename of new schema owner
 \c -
@@ -1211,7 +1212,7 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 SET SESSION ROLE regress_schemauser1;
 CREATE SCHEMA testns;
 SELECT nspname, rolname FROM pg_namespace, pg_roles WHERE pg_namespace.nspname = 'testns' AND pg_namespace.nspowner = pg_roles.oid;
-@@ -2799,7 +2803,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user7;
+@@ -2792,7 +2796,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user7;
 DROP USER regress_priv_user8; -- does not exist
 ERROR:  role "regress_priv_user8" does not exist
 -- permissions with LOCK TABLE
@@ -1220,7 +1221,7 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 CREATE TABLE lock_table (a int);
 -- LOCK TABLE and SELECT permission
 GRANT SELECT ON lock_table TO regress_locktable_user;
-@@ -2881,7 +2885,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
+@@ -2874,7 +2878,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
 -- pg_backend_memory_contexts.
 -- switch to superuser
 \c -
@@ -1229,7 +1230,7 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_readallstats','pg_backend_memory_contexts','SELECT'); -- no
  has_table_privilege 
 ---------------------
-@@ -2925,10 +2929,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
+@@ -2918,10 +2922,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
 -- clean up
 DROP ROLE regress_readallstats;
 -- test role grantor machinery
@@ -1244,7 +1245,7 @@ index 620fbe8c52..0570102357 100644
 GRANT regress_group TO regress_group_direct_manager WITH INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN TRUE;
 GRANT regress_group_direct_manager TO regress_group_indirect_manager;
 SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_group_direct_manager;
-@@ -2957,9 +2961,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_direct_manager;
+@@ -2950,9 +2954,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_direct_manager;
 DROP ROLE regress_group_indirect_manager;
 DROP ROLE regress_group_member;
 -- test SET and INHERIT options with object ownership changes
@@ -1840,7 +1841,7 @@ index 09a255649b..15895f0c53 100644
 CREATE TABLE ruletest_t2 (x int);
 CREATE VIEW ruletest_v1 WITH (security_invoker=true) AS
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/security_label.out b/src/test/regress/expected/security_label.out
-index a8e01a6220..83543b250a 100644
+index a8e01a6220..5a9cef4ede 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/security_label.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/security_label.out
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ SET client_min_messages TO 'warning';
@@ -1854,6 +1855,34 @@ index a8e01a6220..83543b250a 100644
 CREATE TABLE seclabel_tbl1 (a int, b text);
 CREATE TABLE seclabel_tbl2 (x int, y text);
 CREATE VIEW seclabel_view1 AS SELECT * FROM seclabel_tbl2;
+@@ -19,21 +19,21 @@ ALTER TABLE seclabel_tbl2 OWNER TO regress_seclabel_user2;
+ -- Test of SECURITY LABEL statement without a plugin
+ --
+ SECURITY LABEL ON TABLE seclabel_tbl1 IS 'classified';			-- fail
+-ERROR:  no security label providers have been loaded
+ERROR:  must specify provider when multiple security label providers have been loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL FOR 'dummy' ON TABLE seclabel_tbl1 IS 'classified';		-- fail
+ ERROR:  security label provider "dummy" is not loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL ON TABLE seclabel_tbl1 IS '...invalid label...';		-- fail
+-ERROR:  no security label providers have been loaded
+ERROR:  must specify provider when multiple security label providers have been loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL ON TABLE seclabel_tbl3 IS 'unclassified';			-- fail
+-ERROR:  no security label providers have been loaded
+ERROR:  must specify provider when multiple security label providers have been loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL ON ROLE regress_seclabel_user1 IS 'classified';			-- fail
+-ERROR:  no security label providers have been loaded
+ERROR:  must specify provider when multiple security label providers have been loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL FOR 'dummy' ON ROLE regress_seclabel_user1 IS 'classified';		-- fail
+ ERROR:  security label provider "dummy" is not loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL ON ROLE regress_seclabel_user1 IS '...invalid label...';		-- fail
+-ERROR:  no security label providers have been loaded
+ERROR:  must specify provider when multiple security label providers have been loaded
+ SECURITY LABEL ON ROLE regress_seclabel_user3 IS 'unclassified';			-- fail
+-ERROR:  no security label providers have been loaded
+ERROR:  must specify provider when multiple security label providers have been loaded
+ -- clean up objects
+ DROP FUNCTION seclabel_four();
+ DROP DOMAIN seclabel_domain;
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/select_into.out b/src/test/regress/expected/select_into.out
 index b79fe9a1c0..e29fab88ab 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/select_into.out
@@ -2384,10 +2413,10 @@ index e3e3bea709..fa86ddc326 100644
 COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT the_constraint ON constraint_comments_tbl IS 'no, the comment';
 COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT the_constraint ON DOMAIN constraint_comments_dom IS 'no, another comment';
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql
-index b567a1a572..4d1ac2e631 100644
+index 9a65fca91f..58431a3056 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION test_enc_conversion(bytea, name, name, bool, validlen OUT int, r
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION test_enc_conversion(bytea, name, name, bool, validlen OUT int, r
     AS :'regresslib', 'test_enc_conversion'
     LANGUAGE C STRICT;
 
@@ -2751,7 +2780,7 @@ index ae6841308b..47bc792e30 100644
 
 SELECT *
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql
-index 46ad263478..eb05584ed5 100644
+index 0367c0e37a..a23b98c4bd 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
@@ -2864,7 +2893,7 @@ index aa147b14a9..370e0dd570 100644
 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy;
 COMMENT ON FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy IS 'useless';
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
-index 9f4210b26e..620d3fc87e 100644
+index 45c7a534cb..32dd26b8cd 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_6 ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_pk_6 FOR VALUES
@@ -3217,7 +3246,7 @@ index 53e86b0b6c..0303fdfe96 100644
 -- Check that the invalid secrets were re-hashed. A re-hashed secret
 -- should not contain the original salt.
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
-index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
+index 249df17a58..b258e7f26a 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ RESET client_min_messages;
@@ -3279,7 +3308,7 @@ index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
 
 ALTER GROUP regress_priv_group1 ADD USER regress_priv_user4;
 
-@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
+@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
 
 -- security-restricted operations
 \c -
@@ -3288,7 +3317,7 @@ index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
 
 -- Check that index expressions and predicates are run as the table's owner
 
-@@ -1656,8 +1656,8 @@ DROP SCHEMA testns CASCADE;
+@@ -1653,8 +1653,8 @@ DROP SCHEMA testns CASCADE;
 -- Change owner of the schema & and rename of new schema owner
 \c -
 
@@ -3299,7 +3328,7 @@ index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
 
 SET SESSION ROLE regress_schemauser1;
 CREATE SCHEMA testns;
-@@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user8; -- does not exist
+@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user8; -- does not exist
 
 
 -- permissions with LOCK TABLE
@@ -3308,7 +3337,7 @@ index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
 CREATE TABLE lock_table (a int);
 
 -- LOCK TABLE and SELECT permission
-@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
+@@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
 -- switch to superuser
 \c -
 
@@ -3317,7 +3346,7 @@ index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
 
 SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_readallstats','pg_backend_memory_contexts','SELECT'); -- no
 SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_readallstats','pg_shmem_allocations','SELECT'); -- no
-@@ -1859,10 +1859,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
+@@ -1856,10 +1856,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
 DROP ROLE regress_readallstats;
 
 -- test role grantor machinery
@@ -3332,7 +3361,7 @@ index 259f1aedd1..6e1a3d17b7 100644
 
 GRANT regress_group TO regress_group_direct_manager WITH INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN TRUE;
 GRANT regress_group_direct_manager TO regress_group_indirect_manager;
-@@ -1884,9 +1884,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_indirect_manager;
+@@ -1881,9 +1881,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_indirect_manager;
 DROP ROLE regress_group_member;
 
 -- test SET and INHERIT options with object ownership changes
--- a/compute/patches/cloud_regress_pg17.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/cloud_regress_pg17.patch
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ index cf0b80d616..e8e2a14a4a 100644
 COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT the_constraint ON constraint_comments_tbl IS 'no, the comment';
 ERROR:  must be owner of relation constraint_comments_tbl
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out b/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out
-index d785f92561..16377e5ac9 100644
+index 442e7aff2b..525f732b03 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/conversion.out
-@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SELECT FROM test_enc_setup();
+@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 CREATE FUNCTION test_enc_conversion(bytea, name, name, bool, validlen OUT int, result OUT bytea)
     AS :'regresslib', 'test_enc_conversion'
     LANGUAGE C STRICT;
@@ -587,15 +587,16 @@ index f551624afb..57f1e432d4 100644
 SELECT *
    INTO TABLE ramp
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/database.out b/src/test/regress/expected/database.out
-index 4cbdbdf84d..573362850e 100644
+index 454db91ec0..01378d7081 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/database.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/database.out
-@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
+@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 CREATE DATABASE regression_tbd
 	ENCODING utf8 LC_COLLATE "C" LC_CTYPE "C" TEMPLATE template0;
 ALTER DATABASE regression_tbd RENAME TO regression_utf8;
 -ALTER DATABASE regression_utf8 SET TABLESPACE regress_tblspace;
 -ALTER DATABASE regression_utf8 RESET TABLESPACE;
+WARNING:  you need to manually restart any running background workers after this command
 ALTER DATABASE regression_utf8 CONNECTION_LIMIT 123;
 -- Test PgDatabaseToastTable.  Doing this with GRANT would be slow.
 BEGIN;
@@ -699,7 +700,7 @@ index 6ed50fdcfa..caa00a345d 100644
 COMMENT ON FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy IS 'useless';
 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER postgresql VALIDATOR postgresql_fdw_validator;
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
-index fe6a1015f2..614b387b7d 100644
+index 69994c98e3..129abcfbe8 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out
@@ -1985,7 +1985,7 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_6 ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_pk_6 FOR VALUES
@@ -1146,7 +1147,7 @@ index 924d6e001d..7fdda73439 100644
 DROP ROLE regress_passwd_sha_len1;
 DROP ROLE regress_passwd_sha_len2;
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out b/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
-index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
+index 1296da0d57..f43fffa44c 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
 +++ b/src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ SELECT lo_unlink(oid) FROM pg_largeobject_metadata WHERE oid >= 1000 AND oid < 3
@@ -1208,8 +1209,8 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 +CREATE GROUP regress_priv_group2 WITH ADMIN regress_priv_user1 PASSWORD NEON_PASSWORD_PLACEHOLDER USER regress_priv_user2;
 ALTER GROUP regress_priv_group1 ADD USER regress_priv_user4;
 GRANT regress_priv_group2 TO regress_priv_user2 GRANTED BY regress_priv_user1;
- SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_priv_user3;
-@@ -246,12 +246,16 @@ GRANT regress_priv_role TO regress_priv_user1 WITH ADMIN OPTION GRANTED BY regre
+ SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_priv_user1;
+@@ -239,12 +239,16 @@ GRANT regress_priv_role TO regress_priv_user1 WITH ADMIN OPTION GRANTED BY regre
 ERROR:  permission denied to grant privileges as role "regress_priv_role"
 DETAIL:  The grantor must have the ADMIN option on role "regress_priv_role".
 GRANT regress_priv_role TO regress_priv_user1 WITH ADMIN OPTION GRANTED BY CURRENT_ROLE;
@@ -1226,7 +1227,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 DROP ROLE regress_priv_role;
 SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_priv_user1;
 SELECT session_user, current_user;
-@@ -1783,7 +1787,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
+@@ -1776,7 +1780,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
 
 -- security-restricted operations
 \c -
@@ -1235,7 +1236,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 -- Check that index expressions and predicates are run as the table's owner
 -- A dummy index function checking current_user
 CREATE FUNCTION sro_ifun(int) RETURNS int AS $$
-@@ -2675,8 +2679,8 @@ drop cascades to function testns.priv_testagg(integer)
+@@ -2668,8 +2672,8 @@ drop cascades to function testns.priv_testagg(integer)
 drop cascades to function testns.priv_testproc(integer)
 -- Change owner of the schema & and rename of new schema owner
 \c -
@@ -1246,7 +1247,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 SET SESSION ROLE regress_schemauser1;
 CREATE SCHEMA testns;
 SELECT nspname, rolname FROM pg_namespace, pg_roles WHERE pg_namespace.nspname = 'testns' AND pg_namespace.nspowner = pg_roles.oid;
-@@ -2799,7 +2803,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user7;
+@@ -2792,7 +2796,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user7;
 DROP USER regress_priv_user8; -- does not exist
 ERROR:  role "regress_priv_user8" does not exist
 -- permissions with LOCK TABLE
@@ -1255,7 +1256,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 CREATE TABLE lock_table (a int);
 -- LOCK TABLE and SELECT permission
 GRANT SELECT ON lock_table TO regress_locktable_user;
-@@ -2895,7 +2899,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
+@@ -2888,7 +2892,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
 -- pg_backend_memory_contexts.
 -- switch to superuser
 \c -
@@ -1264,7 +1265,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_readallstats','pg_backend_memory_contexts','SELECT'); -- no
  has_table_privilege 
 ---------------------
-@@ -2939,10 +2943,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
+@@ -2932,10 +2936,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
 -- clean up
 DROP ROLE regress_readallstats;
 -- test role grantor machinery
@@ -1279,7 +1280,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 GRANT regress_group TO regress_group_direct_manager WITH INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN TRUE;
 GRANT regress_group_direct_manager TO regress_group_indirect_manager;
 SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION regress_group_direct_manager;
-@@ -2971,9 +2975,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_direct_manager;
+@@ -2964,9 +2968,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_direct_manager;
 DROP ROLE regress_group_indirect_manager;
 DROP ROLE regress_group_member;
 -- test SET and INHERIT options with object ownership changes
@@ -1292,7 +1293,7 @@ index e8c668e0a1..03be5c2120 100644
 CREATE SCHEMA regress_roleoption;
 GRANT CREATE, USAGE ON SCHEMA regress_roleoption TO PUBLIC;
 GRANT regress_roleoption_donor TO regress_roleoption_protagonist WITH INHERIT TRUE, SET FALSE;
-@@ -3002,9 +3006,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_protagonist;
+@@ -2995,9 +2999,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_protagonist;
 DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_donor;
 DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_recipient;
 -- MAINTAIN
@@ -2432,10 +2433,10 @@ index e3e3bea709..fa86ddc326 100644
 COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT the_constraint ON constraint_comments_tbl IS 'no, the comment';
 COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT the_constraint ON DOMAIN constraint_comments_dom IS 'no, another comment';
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql
-index b567a1a572..4d1ac2e631 100644
+index 9a65fca91f..58431a3056 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/conversion.sql
-@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION test_enc_conversion(bytea, name, name, bool, validlen OUT int, r
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION test_enc_conversion(bytea, name, name, bool, validlen OUT int, r
     AS :'regresslib', 'test_enc_conversion'
     LANGUAGE C STRICT;
 
@@ -2799,7 +2800,7 @@ index ae6841308b..47bc792e30 100644
 
 SELECT *
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql
-index 46ad263478..eb05584ed5 100644
+index 0367c0e37a..a23b98c4bd 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/database.sql
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
@@ -2912,7 +2913,7 @@ index aa147b14a9..370e0dd570 100644
 CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy;
 COMMENT ON FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER dummy IS 'useless';
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
-index 8c4e4c7c83..e946cd2119 100644
+index 2e710e419c..89cd481a54 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ ALTER TABLE fk_partitioned_fk_6 ATTACH PARTITION fk_partitioned_pk_6 FOR VALUES
@@ -3300,7 +3301,7 @@ index bb82aa4aa2..dd8a05e24d 100644
 -- Check that the invalid secrets were re-hashed. A re-hashed secret
 -- should not contain the original salt.
 diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
-index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
+index 5880bc018d..27aa952b18 100644
 --- a/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
 +++ b/src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ RESET client_min_messages;
@@ -3362,7 +3363,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 
 ALTER GROUP regress_priv_group1 ADD USER regress_priv_user4;
 
-@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
+@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_priv_user1', 'atest4', 'SELECT WITH GRANT OP
 
 -- security-restricted operations
 \c -
@@ -3371,7 +3372,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 
 -- Check that index expressions and predicates are run as the table's owner
 
-@@ -1656,8 +1656,8 @@ DROP SCHEMA testns CASCADE;
+@@ -1653,8 +1653,8 @@ DROP SCHEMA testns CASCADE;
 -- Change owner of the schema & and rename of new schema owner
 \c -
 
@@ -3382,7 +3383,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 
 SET SESSION ROLE regress_schemauser1;
 CREATE SCHEMA testns;
-@@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user8; -- does not exist
+@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ DROP USER regress_priv_user8; -- does not exist
 
 
 -- permissions with LOCK TABLE
@@ -3391,7 +3392,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 CREATE TABLE lock_table (a int);
 
 -- LOCK TABLE and SELECT permission
-@@ -1854,7 +1854,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
+@@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@ DROP USER regress_locktable_user;
 -- switch to superuser
 \c -
 
@@ -3400,7 +3401,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 
 SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_readallstats','pg_backend_memory_contexts','SELECT'); -- no
 SELECT has_table_privilege('regress_readallstats','pg_shmem_allocations','SELECT'); -- no
-@@ -1874,10 +1874,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
+@@ -1871,10 +1871,10 @@ RESET ROLE;
 DROP ROLE regress_readallstats;
 
 -- test role grantor machinery
@@ -3415,7 +3416,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 
 GRANT regress_group TO regress_group_direct_manager WITH INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN TRUE;
 GRANT regress_group_direct_manager TO regress_group_indirect_manager;
-@@ -1899,9 +1899,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_indirect_manager;
+@@ -1896,9 +1896,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_group_indirect_manager;
 DROP ROLE regress_group_member;
 
 -- test SET and INHERIT options with object ownership changes
@@ -3428,7 +3429,7 @@ index b7e1cb6cdd..6e5a2217f1 100644
 CREATE SCHEMA regress_roleoption;
 GRANT CREATE, USAGE ON SCHEMA regress_roleoption TO PUBLIC;
 GRANT regress_roleoption_donor TO regress_roleoption_protagonist WITH INHERIT TRUE, SET FALSE;
-@@ -1929,9 +1929,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_donor;
+@@ -1926,9 +1926,9 @@ DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_donor;
 DROP ROLE regress_roleoption_recipient;
 
 -- MAINTAIN
--- a/compute/patches/onnxruntime.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/onnxruntime.patch
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/cmake/deps.txt b/cmake/deps.txt
-index d213b09034..229de2ebf0 100644
--- a/cmake/deps.txt
-+++ b/cmake/deps.txt
-@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ dlpack;https://github.com/dmlc/dlpack/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.zip;4d565dd2e5b3132
- # it contains changes on top of 3.4.0 which are required to fix build issues.
- # Until the 3.4.1 release this is the best option we have.
- # Issue link: https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/issues/2744
-eigen;https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/archive/e7248b26a1ed53fa030c5c459f7ea095dfd276ac/eigen-e7248b26a1ed53fa030c5c459f7ea095dfd276ac.zip;be8be39fdbc6e60e94fa7870b280707069b5b81a
-+# Moved to github mirror to avoid gitlab issues.Add commentMore actions
-+# Issue link: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry/issues/4355
-+eigen;https://github.com/eigen-mirror/eigen/archive/e7248b26a1ed53fa030c5c459f7ea095dfd276ac/eigen-e7248b26a1ed53fa030c5c459f7ea095dfd276ac.zip;61418a349000ba7744a3ad03cf5071f22ebf860a
- flatbuffers;https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/archive/refs/tags/v23.5.26.zip;59422c3b5e573dd192fead2834d25951f1c1670c
- fp16;https://github.com/Maratyszcza/FP16/archive/0a92994d729ff76a58f692d3028ca1b64b145d91.zip;b985f6985a05a1c03ff1bb71190f66d8f98a1494
- fxdiv;https://github.com/Maratyszcza/FXdiv/archive/63058eff77e11aa15bf531df5dd34395ec3017c8.zip;a5658f4036402dbca7cebee32be57fb8149811e1
--- a/compute/patches/pg_anon.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pg_anon.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,265 @@
+commit 00aa659afc9c7336ab81036edec3017168aabf40
+Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@neon.tech>
+Date:   Tue Nov 12 16:59:19 2024 +0200
+
+    Temporarily disable test that depends on timezone
+
+diff --git a/tests/expected/generalization.out b/tests/expected/generalization.out
+index 23ef5fa..9e60deb 100644
+--- a/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/generalization.out
+++ b/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/generalization.out
+@@ -284,12 +284,9 @@ SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','century');
+  ["Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 1901 PST","Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 2001 PST")
+ (1 row)
+ 
+-SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','millennium');
+-                      generalize_tstzrange                       
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+- ["Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1001 PST","Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 2001 PST")
+-(1 row)
+-
+-- temporarily disabled, see:
+-- https://gitlab.com/dalibo/postgresql_anonymizer/-/commit/199f0a392b37c59d92ae441fb8f037e094a11a52#note_2148017485
+--SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','millennium');
+ -- generalize_daterange
+ SELECT anon.generalize_daterange('19041107');
+   generalize_daterange   
+diff --git a/tests/sql/generalization.sql b/tests/sql/generalization.sql
+index b868344..b4fc977 100644
+--- a/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/sql/generalization.sql
+++ b/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/sql/generalization.sql
+@@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','month');
+ SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','year');
+ SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','decade');
+ SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','century');
+-SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','millennium');
+-- temporarily disabled, see:
+-- https://gitlab.com/dalibo/postgresql_anonymizer/-/commit/199f0a392b37c59d92ae441fb8f037e094a11a52#note_2148017485
+--SELECT anon.generalize_tstzrange('19041107','millennium');
+ 
+ -- generalize_daterange
+ SELECT anon.generalize_daterange('19041107');
+
+commit 7dd414ee75f2875cffb1d6ba474df1f135a6fc6f
+Author: Alexey Masterov <alexeymasterov@neon.tech>
+Date:   Fri May 31 06:34:26 2024 +0000
+
+    These alternative expected files were added to consider the neon features
+
+diff --git a/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/permissions_masked_role_1.out b/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/permissions_masked_role_1.out
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..2539cfd
+--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/permissions_masked_role_1.out
+@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+BEGIN;
+CREATE EXTENSION anon CASCADE;
+NOTICE:  installing required extension "pgcrypto"
+SELECT anon.init();
+ init 
+------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+CREATE ROLE mallory_the_masked_user;
+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON ROLE mallory_the_masked_user IS 'MASKED';
+CREATE TABLE t1(i INT);
+ALTER TABLE t1 ADD COLUMN t TEXT;
+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON COLUMN t1.t
+IS 'MASKED WITH VALUE NULL';
+INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1,'test');
+--
+-- We're checking the owner's permissions
+--
+-- see
+-- https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/SECURITY/#permissions
+--
+SET ROLE mallory_the_masked_user;
+SELECT anon.pseudo_first_name(0) IS NOT NULL;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+DO $$
+BEGIN
+  PERFORM anon.init();
+  EXCEPTION WHEN insufficient_privilege
+  THEN RAISE NOTICE 'insufficient_privilege';
+END$$;
+NOTICE:  insufficient_privilege
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+DO $$
+BEGIN
+  PERFORM anon.anonymize_table('t1');
+  EXCEPTION WHEN insufficient_privilege
+  THEN RAISE NOTICE 'insufficient_privilege';
+END$$;
+NOTICE:  insufficient_privilege
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+SAVEPOINT fail_start_engine;
+SELECT anon.start_dynamic_masking();
+ERROR:  Only supersusers can start the dynamic masking engine.
+CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function anon.start_dynamic_masking(boolean) line 18 at RAISE
+ROLLBACK TO fail_start_engine;
+RESET ROLE;
+SELECT anon.start_dynamic_masking();
+ start_dynamic_masking 
+-----------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+SET ROLE mallory_the_masked_user;
+SELECT * FROM mask.t1;
+ i | t 
+---+---
+ 1 | 
+(1 row)
+
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+DO $$
+BEGIN
+  SELECT * FROM public.t1;
+  EXCEPTION WHEN insufficient_privilege
+  THEN RAISE NOTICE 'insufficient_privilege';
+END$$;
+NOTICE:  insufficient_privilege
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+SAVEPOINT fail_stop_engine;
+SELECT anon.stop_dynamic_masking();
+ERROR:  Only supersusers can stop the dynamic masking engine.
+CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function anon.stop_dynamic_masking() line 18 at RAISE
+ROLLBACK TO fail_stop_engine;
+RESET ROLE;
+SELECT anon.stop_dynamic_masking();
+NOTICE:  The previous priviledges of 'mallory_the_masked_user' are not restored. You need to grant them manually.
+ stop_dynamic_masking 
+----------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+SET ROLE mallory_the_masked_user;
+SELECT COUNT(*)=1 FROM anon.pg_masking_rules;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+SAVEPOINT fail_seclabel_on_role;
+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON ROLE mallory_the_masked_user IS NULL;
+ERROR:  permission denied
+DETAIL:  The current user must have the CREATEROLE attribute.
+ROLLBACK TO fail_seclabel_on_role;
+ROLLBACK;
+diff --git a/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/permissions_owner_1.out b/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/permissions_owner_1.out
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..8b090fe
+--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext-src/pg_anon-src/tests/expected/permissions_owner_1.out
+@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+BEGIN;
+CREATE EXTENSION anon CASCADE;
+NOTICE:  installing required extension "pgcrypto"
+SELECT anon.init();
+ init 
+------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+CREATE ROLE oscar_the_owner;
+ALTER DATABASE :DBNAME OWNER TO oscar_the_owner;
+CREATE ROLE mallory_the_masked_user;
+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON ROLE mallory_the_masked_user IS 'MASKED';
+--
+-- We're checking the owner's permissions
+--
+-- see
+-- https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/SECURITY/#permissions
+--
+SET ROLE oscar_the_owner;
+SELECT anon.pseudo_first_name(0) IS NOT NULL;
+ ?column? 
+----------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+DO $$
+BEGIN
+  PERFORM anon.init();
+  EXCEPTION WHEN insufficient_privilege
+  THEN RAISE NOTICE 'insufficient_privilege';
+END$$;
+NOTICE:  insufficient_privilege
+CREATE TABLE t1(i INT);
+ALTER TABLE t1 ADD COLUMN t TEXT;
+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON COLUMN t1.t
+IS 'MASKED WITH VALUE NULL';
+INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1,'test');
+SELECT anon.anonymize_table('t1');
+ anonymize_table 
+-----------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT * FROM t1;
+ i | t 
+---+---
+ 1 | 
+(1 row)
+
+UPDATE t1 SET t='test' WHERE i=1;
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+SAVEPOINT fail_start_engine;
+SELECT anon.start_dynamic_masking();
+ start_dynamic_masking 
+-----------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+ROLLBACK TO fail_start_engine;
+RESET ROLE;
+SELECT anon.start_dynamic_masking();
+ start_dynamic_masking 
+-----------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+SET ROLE oscar_the_owner;
+SELECT * FROM t1;
+ i |  t   
+---+------
+ 1 | test
+(1 row)
+
+--SELECT * FROM mask.t1;
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+SAVEPOINT fail_stop_engine;
+SELECT anon.stop_dynamic_masking();
+ERROR:  permission denied for schema mask
+CONTEXT:  SQL statement "DROP VIEW mask.t1;"
+PL/pgSQL function anon.mask_drop_view(oid) line 3 at EXECUTE
+SQL statement "SELECT anon.mask_drop_view(oid)
+  FROM pg_catalog.pg_class
+  WHERE relnamespace=quote_ident(pg_catalog.current_setting('anon.sourceschema'))::REGNAMESPACE
+  AND relkind IN ('r','p','f')"
+PL/pgSQL function anon.stop_dynamic_masking() line 22 at PERFORM
+ROLLBACK TO fail_stop_engine;
+RESET ROLE;
+SELECT anon.stop_dynamic_masking();
+NOTICE:  The previous priviledges of 'mallory_the_masked_user' are not restored. You need to grant them manually.
+ stop_dynamic_masking 
+----------------------
+ t
+(1 row)
+
+SET ROLE oscar_the_owner;
+-- SHOULD FAIL
+SAVEPOINT fail_seclabel_on_role;
+SECURITY LABEL FOR anon ON ROLE mallory_the_masked_user IS NULL;
+ERROR:  permission denied
+DETAIL:  The current user must have the CREATEROLE attribute.
+ROLLBACK TO fail_seclabel_on_role;
+ROLLBACK;
--- a/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v16.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v16.patch
@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@ diff --git a/expected/ut-A.out b/expected/ut-A.out
 index da723b8..5328114 100644
 --- a/expected/ut-A.out
 +++ b/expected/ut-A.out
+@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@ SET search_path TO public;
+ ----
+ -- No.A-1-1-3
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ -- No.A-1-2-3
+ DROP EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+ -- No.A-1-1-4
+ CREATE SCHEMA other_schema;
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan SCHEMA other_schema;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ ERROR:  extension "pg_hint_plan" must be installed in schema "hint_plan"
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ DROP SCHEMA other_schema;
+ ----
+ ---- No. A-5-1 comment pattern
@@ -3175,6 +3178,7 @@ SELECT s.query, s.calls
   FROM public.pg_stat_statements s
   JOIN pg_catalog.pg_database d
@@ -10,6 +27,18 @@ index da723b8..5328114 100644
  ORDER BY 1;
                 query                 | calls 
 --------------------------------------+-------
+diff --git a/expected/ut-fdw.out b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+index d372459..6282afe 100644
+--- a/expected/ut-fdw.out
+++ b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SET pg_hint_plan.debug_print TO on;
+ SET client_min_messages TO LOG;
+ SET pg_hint_plan.enable_hint TO on;
+ CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/file_fdw
+ CREATE SERVER file_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file_fdw;
+ CREATE USER MAPPING FOR PUBLIC SERVER file_server;
+ CREATE FOREIGN TABLE ft1 (id int, val int) SERVER file_server OPTIONS (format 'csv', filename :'filename');
 diff --git a/sql/ut-A.sql b/sql/ut-A.sql
 index 7c7d58a..4fd1a07 100644
 --- a/sql/ut-A.sql
--- a/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v17.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v17.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+diff --git a/expected/ut-A.out b/expected/ut-A.out
+index e7d68a1..65a056c 100644
+--- a/expected/ut-A.out
+++ b/expected/ut-A.out
+@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@ SET search_path TO public;
+ ----
+ -- No.A-1-1-3
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ -- No.A-1-2-3
+ DROP EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+ -- No.A-1-1-4
+ CREATE SCHEMA other_schema;
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan SCHEMA other_schema;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ ERROR:  extension "pg_hint_plan" must be installed in schema "hint_plan"
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ DROP SCHEMA other_schema;
+ ----
+ ---- No. A-5-1 comment pattern
 diff --git a/expected/ut-J.out b/expected/ut-J.out
 index 2fa3c70..314e929 100644
 --- a/expected/ut-J.out
@@ -139,3 +160,15 @@ index a09bd34..0ad227c 100644
 error hint:
 
                     explain_filter                    
+diff --git a/expected/ut-fdw.out b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+index 017fa4b..98d989b 100644
+--- a/expected/ut-fdw.out
+++ b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SET pg_hint_plan.debug_print TO on;
+ SET client_min_messages TO LOG;
+ SET pg_hint_plan.enable_hint TO on;
+ CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/file_fdw
+ CREATE SERVER file_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file_fdw;
+ CREATE USER MAPPING FOR PUBLIC SERVER file_server;
+ CREATE FOREIGN TABLE ft1 (id int, val int) SERVER file_server OPTIONS (format 'csv', filename :'filename');
--- a/compute/patches/pg_repack.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pg_repack.patch
@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@ index bf6edcb..89b4c7f 100644
 
 USE_PGXS = 1	# use pgxs if not in contrib directory
 PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs)
-diff --git a/regress/expected/init-extension.out b/regress/expected/init-extension.out
-index 9f2e171..f6e4f8d 100644
--- a/regress/expected/init-extension.out
-+++ b/regress/expected/init-extension.out
-@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
- SET client_min_messages = warning;
- CREATE EXTENSION pg_repack;
-RESET client_min_messages;
 diff --git a/regress/expected/nosuper.out b/regress/expected/nosuper.out
 index 8d0a94e..63b68bf 100644
 --- a/regress/expected/nosuper.out
@@ -50,14 +42,6 @@ index 8d0a94e..63b68bf 100644
 INFO: repacking table "public.tbl_cluster"
 ERROR: query failed: ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
 DETAIL: query was: RESET lock_timeout
-diff --git a/regress/sql/init-extension.sql b/regress/sql/init-extension.sql
-index 9f2e171..f6e4f8d 100644
--- a/regress/sql/init-extension.sql
-+++ b/regress/sql/init-extension.sql
-@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
- SET client_min_messages = warning;
- CREATE EXTENSION pg_repack;
-RESET client_min_messages;
 diff --git a/regress/sql/nosuper.sql b/regress/sql/nosuper.sql
 index 072f0fa..dbe60f8 100644
 --- a/regress/sql/nosuper.sql
--- a/compute/patches/pgvector.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pgvector.patch
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ index 7a4b88c..56678af 100644
 HEADERS = src/halfvec.h src/sparsevec.h src/vector.h
 
 diff --git a/src/hnswbuild.c b/src/hnswbuild.c
-index b667478..1298aa1 100644
+index b667478..fc1897c 100644
 --- a/src/hnswbuild.c
 +++ b/src/hnswbuild.c
@@ -843,9 +843,17 @@ HnswParallelBuildMain(dsm_segment *seg, shm_toc *toc)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ index b667478..1298aa1 100644
 	/* Close relations within worker */
 	index_close(indexRel, indexLockmode);
 	table_close(heapRel, heapLockmode);
-@@ -1100,13 +1108,25 @@ BuildIndex(Relation heap, Relation index, IndexInfo *indexInfo,
+@@ -1100,12 +1108,38 @@ BuildIndex(Relation heap, Relation index, IndexInfo *indexInfo,
 	SeedRandom(42);
 #endif
 
@@ -48,17 +48,31 @@ index b667478..1298aa1 100644
 
 	BuildGraph(buildstate, forkNum);
 
+-	if (RelationNeedsWAL(index) || forkNum == INIT_FORKNUM)
 +#ifdef NEON_SMGR
 +	smgr_finish_unlogged_build_phase_1(RelationGetSmgr(index));
 +#endif
 +
- 	if (RelationNeedsWAL(index) || forkNum == INIT_FORKNUM)
+	if (RelationNeedsWAL(index) || forkNum == INIT_FORKNUM) {
 		log_newpage_range(index, forkNum, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork(index, forkNum), true);
- 
+#ifdef NEON_SMGR
+		{
+#if PG_VERSION_NUM >= 160000
+			RelFileLocator rlocator = RelationGetSmgr(index)->smgr_rlocator.locator;
+#else
+			RelFileNode rlocator = RelationGetSmgr(index)->smgr_rnode.node;
+#endif
+
+			SetLastWrittenLSNForBlockRange(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator,
+									   MAIN_FORKNUM, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(index));
+			SetLastWrittenLSNForRelation(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM);
+		}
+#endif
+	}
+
 +#ifdef NEON_SMGR
 +	smgr_end_unlogged_build(RelationGetSmgr(index));
 +#endif
-+
+ 
 	FreeBuildState(buildstate);
 }
- 
--- a/compute/patches/plv8_v3.1.10.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/plv8_v3.1.10.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
+commit 46b38d3e46f9cd6c70d9b189dd6ff4abaa17cf5e
+Author: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
+Date:   Sat Nov 30 18:29:32 2024 +0000
+
+    Fix v8 9.7.37 compilation on Debian 12
+
 diff --git a/patches/code/84cf3230a9680aac3b73c410c2b758760b6d3066.patch b/patches/code/84cf3230a9680aac3b73c410c2b758760b6d3066.patch
 new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..fae1cb3
+index 0000000..f0a5dc7
 --- /dev/null
 +++ b/patches/code/84cf3230a9680aac3b73c410c2b758760b6d3066.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
@@ -29,21 +35,8 @@ index 0000000..fae1cb3
 +@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 + #ifndef V8_HEAP_CPPGC_PREFINALIZER_HANDLER_H_
 + #define V8_HEAP_CPPGC_PREFINALIZER_HANDLER_H_
-+
+ 
 ++#include <utility>
 + #include <vector>
-+
+ 
 + #include "include/cppgc/prefinalizer.h"
-diff --git a/plv8.cc b/plv8.cc
-index c1ce883..6e47e94 100644
--- a/plv8.cc
-+++ b/plv8.cc
-@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
- 							   NULL,
- 							   &plv8_v8_flags,
- 							   NULL,
-							   PGC_USERSET, 0,
-+							   PGC_SUSET, 0,
- #if PG_VERSION_NUM >= 90100
- 							   NULL,
- #endif
--- a/compute/patches/plv8_v3.2.3.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/plv8_v3.2.3.patch
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/plv8.cc b/plv8.cc
-index edfa2aa..623e7f2 100644
--- a/plv8.cc
-+++ b/plv8.cc
-@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
-                                    NULL,
-                                    &plv8_v8_flags,
-                                    NULL,
-                                   PGC_USERSET, 0,
-+                                   PGC_SUSET, 0,
- #if PG_VERSION_NUM >= 90100
-                                    NULL,
- #endif
--- a/compute/patches/rum.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/rum.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
+commit 68f3b3b0d594f08aacc4a082ee210749ed5677eb
+Author: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@neon.tech>
+Date:   Mon Jul 15 12:31:56 2024 +0100
+
+    Neon: fix unlogged index build patch
+
 diff --git a/src/ruminsert.c b/src/ruminsert.c
-index 255e616..1c6edb7 100644
+index e8b209d..e89bf2a 100644
 --- a/src/ruminsert.c
 +++ b/src/ruminsert.c
@@ -628,6 +628,10 @@ rumbuild(Relation heap, Relation index, struct IndexInfo *indexInfo)
@@ -7,7 +13,7 @@ index 255e616..1c6edb7 100644
 			 RelationGetRelationName(index));
 
 +#ifdef NEON_SMGR
-+	smgr_start_unlogged_build(RelationGetSmgr(index));
+	smgr_start_unlogged_build(index->rd_smgr);
 +#endif
 +
 	initRumState(&buildstate.rumstate, index);
@@ -18,18 +24,29 @@ index 255e616..1c6edb7 100644
 	rumUpdateStats(index, &buildstate.buildStats, buildstate.rumstate.isBuild);
 
 +#ifdef NEON_SMGR
-+	smgr_finish_unlogged_build_phase_1(RelationGetSmgr(index));
+	smgr_finish_unlogged_build_phase_1(index->rd_smgr);
 +#endif
 +
 	/*
 	 * Write index to xlog
 	 */
-@@ -713,6 +721,10 @@ rumbuild(Relation heap, Relation index, struct IndexInfo *indexInfo)
+@@ -713,6 +721,21 @@ rumbuild(Relation heap, Relation index, struct IndexInfo *indexInfo)
 		UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
 	}
 
 +#ifdef NEON_SMGR
-+	smgr_end_unlogged_build(RelationGetSmgr(index));
+	{
+#if PG_VERSION_NUM >= 160000
+		RelFileLocator rlocator = RelationGetSmgr(index)->smgr_rlocator.locator;
+#else
+		RelFileNode rlocator = RelationGetSmgr(index)->smgr_rnode.node;
+#endif
+
+		SetLastWrittenLSNForBlockRange(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(index));
+		SetLastWrittenLSNForRelation(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM);
+
+		smgr_end_unlogged_build(index->rd_smgr);
+	}
 +#endif
 +
 	/*
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ commands:
  - name: local_proxy
    user: postgres
    sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: 'RUST_LOG="error" /usr/local/bin/local_proxy --config-path /etc/local_proxy/config.json --pid-path /etc/local_proxy/pid --http 0.0.0.0:10432'
+    shell: '/usr/local/bin/local_proxy --config-path /etc/local_proxy/config.json --pid-path /etc/local_proxy/pid --http 0.0.0.0:10432'
  - name: postgres-exporter
    user: nobody
    sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter pgaudit.log=none" /bin/postgres_exporter --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
+    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter" /bin/postgres_exporter --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
  - name: pgbouncer-exporter
    user: postgres
    sysvInitAction: respawn
@@ -39,13 +39,6 @@ commands:
    user: nobody
    sysvInitAction: respawn
    shell: '/bin/sql_exporter -config.file=/etc/sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml -web.listen-address=:9499'
-  # Rsyslog by default creates a unix socket under /dev/log . That's where Postgres sends logs also.
-  # We run syslog with postgres user so it can't create /dev/log. Instead we configure rsyslog to
-  # use a different path for the socket. The symlink actually points to our custom path.
-  - name: rsyslogd-socket-symlink
-    user: root
-    sysvInitAction: sysinit
-    shell: "ln -s /var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe /dev/log"
  - name: rsyslogd
    user: postgres
    sysvInitAction: respawn
@@ -59,7 +52,7 @@ files:
      # the rules use ALL as the hostname. Avoid the pointless lookups and the "unable to
      # resolve host" log messages that they generate.
      Defaults !fqdn
-
+      
      # Allow postgres user (which is what compute_ctl runs as) to run /neonvm/bin/resize-swap
      # and /neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota as root without requiring entering a password (NOPASSWD),
      # regardless of hostname (ALL)
@@ -84,9 +77,6 @@ files:
 # compute_ctl will rewrite this file with the actual configuration, if needed.
  - filename: compute_rsyslog.conf
    content: |
-      # Syslock.Name specifies a non-default pipe location that is writeable for the postgres user.
-      module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Name="/var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe") # provides support for local system logging
-
      *.*    /dev/null
      $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 build: |
@@ -155,7 +145,7 @@ merge: |

  COPY compute_rsyslog.conf /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
  RUN chmod 0666 /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
-  RUN mkdir /var/log/rsyslog && chown -R postgres /var/log/rsyslog
+  RUN chmod 0666 /var/log/


  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/bin/*  /usr/bin/
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ commands:
  - name: local_proxy
    user: postgres
    sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: 'RUST_LOG="error" /usr/local/bin/local_proxy --config-path /etc/local_proxy/config.json --pid-path /etc/local_proxy/pid --http 0.0.0.0:10432'
+    shell: '/usr/local/bin/local_proxy --config-path /etc/local_proxy/config.json --pid-path /etc/local_proxy/pid --http 0.0.0.0:10432'
  - name: postgres-exporter
    user: nobody
    sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter pgaudit.log=none" /bin/postgres_exporter --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
+    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter" /bin/postgres_exporter --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
  - name: pgbouncer-exporter
    user: postgres
    sysvInitAction: respawn
@@ -39,13 +39,6 @@ commands:
    user: nobody
    sysvInitAction: respawn
    shell: '/bin/sql_exporter -config.file=/etc/sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml -web.listen-address=:9499'
-  # Rsyslog by default creates a unix socket under /dev/log . That's where Postgres sends logs also.
-  # We run syslog with postgres user so it can't create /dev/log. Instead we configure rsyslog to
-  # use a different path for the socket. The symlink actually points to our custom path.
-  - name: rsyslogd-socket-symlink
-    user: root
-    sysvInitAction: sysinit
-    shell: "ln -s /var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe /dev/log"
  - name: rsyslogd
    user: postgres
    sysvInitAction: respawn
@@ -59,7 +52,7 @@ files:
      # the rules use ALL as the hostname. Avoid the pointless lookups and the "unable to
      # resolve host" log messages that they generate.
      Defaults !fqdn
-
+      
      # Allow postgres user (which is what compute_ctl runs as) to run /neonvm/bin/resize-swap
      # and /neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota as root without requiring entering a password (NOPASSWD),
      # regardless of hostname (ALL)
@@ -84,9 +77,6 @@ files:
 # compute_ctl will rewrite this file with the actual configuration, if needed.
  - filename: compute_rsyslog.conf
    content: |
-      # Syslock.Name specifies a non-default pipe location that is writeable for the postgres user.
-      module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Name="/var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe") # provides support for local system logging
-
      *.*    /dev/null
      $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 build: |
@@ -150,7 +140,7 @@ merge: |

  COPY compute_rsyslog.conf /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
  RUN chmod 0666 /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
-  RUN mkdir /var/log/rsyslog && chown -R postgres /var/log/rsyslog
+  RUN chmod 0666 /var/log/


  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/bin/*  /usr/bin/
--- a/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
+++ b/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ default = []
 testing = ["fail/failpoints"]

 [dependencies]
-async-compression.workspace = true
 base64.workspace = true
 aws-config.workspace = true
 aws-sdk-s3.workspace = true
@@ -27,8 +26,6 @@ fail.workspace = true
 flate2.workspace = true
 futures.workspace = true
 http.workspace = true
-indexmap.workspace = true
-itertools.workspace = true
 jsonwebtoken.workspace = true
 metrics.workspace = true
 nix.workspace = true
@@ -37,11 +34,8 @@ num_cpus.workspace = true
 once_cell.workspace = true
 opentelemetry.workspace = true
 opentelemetry_sdk.workspace = true
-p256 = { version = "0.13", features = ["pem"] }
 postgres.workspace = true
 regex.workspace = true
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
-ring = "0.17"
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_with.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
@@ -49,6 +43,7 @@ signal-hook.workspace = true
 tar.workspace = true
 tower.workspace = true
 tower-http.workspace = true
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-postgres.workspace = true
 tokio-util.workspace = true
@@ -62,9 +57,7 @@ thiserror.workspace = true
 url.workspace = true
 uuid.workspace = true
 walkdir.workspace = true
-x509-cert.workspace = true

-postgres_versioninfo.workspace = true
 postgres_initdb.workspace = true
 compute_api.workspace = true
 utils.workspace = true
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
@@ -29,23 +29,23 @@
 //! ```sh
 //! compute_ctl -D /var/db/postgres/compute \
 //!             -C 'postgresql://cloud_admin@localhost/postgres' \
-//!             -c /var/db/postgres/configs/config.json \
+//!             -S /var/db/postgres/specs/current.json \
 //!             -b /usr/local/bin/postgres \
 //!             -r http://pg-ext-s3-gateway \
 //! ```
 use std::ffi::OsString;
 use std::fs::File;
+use std::path::Path;
 use std::process::exit;
 use std::sync::mpsc;
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::Duration;

-use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
+use anyhow::{Context, Result};
 use clap::Parser;
-use compute_api::responses::ComputeConfig;
-use compute_tools::compute::{
-    BUILD_TAG, ComputeNode, ComputeNodeParams, forward_termination_signal,
-};
+use compute_api::responses::ComputeCtlConfig;
+use compute_api::spec::ComputeSpec;
+use compute_tools::compute::{ComputeNode, ComputeNodeParams, forward_termination_signal};
 use compute_tools::extension_server::get_pg_version_string;
 use compute_tools::logger::*;
 use compute_tools::params::*;
@@ -57,15 +57,29 @@ use tracing::{error, info};
 use url::Url;
 use utils::failpoint_support;

-#[derive(Debug, Parser)]
+// this is an arbitrary build tag. Fine as a default / for testing purposes
+// in-case of not-set environment var
+const BUILD_TAG_DEFAULT: &str = "latest";
+
+// Compatibility hack: if the control plane specified any remote-ext-config
+// use the default value for extension storage proxy gateway.
+// Remove this once the control plane is updated to pass the gateway URL
+fn parse_remote_ext_config(arg: &str) -> Result<String> {
+    if arg.starts_with("http") {
+        Ok(arg.trim_end_matches('/').to_string())
+    } else {
+        Ok("http://pg-ext-s3-gateway".to_string())
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Parser)]
 #[command(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
 struct Cli {
    #[arg(short = 'b', long, default_value = "postgres", env = "POSTGRES_PATH")]
    pub pgbin: String,

-    /// The base URL for the remote extension storage proxy gateway.
-    #[arg(short = 'r', long, value_parser = Self::parse_remote_ext_base_url)]
-    pub remote_ext_base_url: Option<Url>,
+    #[arg(short = 'r', long, value_parser = parse_remote_ext_config)]
+    pub remote_ext_config: Option<String>,

    /// The port to bind the external listening HTTP server to. Clients running
    /// outside the compute will talk to the compute through this port. Keep
@@ -106,47 +120,17 @@ struct Cli {
    #[arg(long)]
    pub set_disk_quota_for_fs: Option<String>,

-    #[arg(short = 'c', long)]
-    pub config: Option<OsString>,
+    #[arg(short = 's', long = "spec", group = "spec")]
+    pub spec_json: Option<String>,
+
+    #[arg(short = 'S', long, group = "spec-path")]
+    pub spec_path: Option<OsString>,

    #[arg(short = 'i', long, group = "compute-id")]
    pub compute_id: String,

-    #[arg(
-        short = 'p',
-        long,
-        conflicts_with = "config",
-        value_name = "CONTROL_PLANE_API_BASE_URL",
-        requires = "compute-id"
-    )]
+    #[arg(short = 'p', long, conflicts_with_all = ["spec", "spec-path"], value_name = "CONTROL_PLANE_API_BASE_URL")]
    pub control_plane_uri: Option<String>,
-
-    /// Interval in seconds for collecting installed extensions statistics
-    #[arg(long, default_value = "3600")]
-    pub installed_extensions_collection_interval: u64,
-
-    /// Run in development mode, skipping VM-specific operations like process termination
-    #[arg(long, action = clap::ArgAction::SetTrue)]
-    pub dev: bool,
-}
-
-impl Cli {
-    /// Parse a URL from an argument. By default, this isn't necessary, but we
-    /// want to do some sanity checking.
-    fn parse_remote_ext_base_url(value: &str) -> Result<Url> {
-        // Remove extra trailing slashes, and add one. We use Url::join() later
-        // when downloading remote extensions. If the base URL is something like
-        // http://example.com/pg-ext-s3-gateway, and join() is called with
-        // something like "xyz", the resulting URL is http://example.com/xyz.
-        let value = value.trim_end_matches('/').to_owned() + "/";
-        let url = Url::parse(&value)?;
-
-        if url.query_pairs().count() != 0 {
-            bail!("parameters detected in remote extensions base URL")
-        }
-
-        Ok(url)
-    }
 }

 fn main() -> Result<()> {
@@ -154,7 +138,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {

    let scenario = failpoint_support::init();

-    // For historical reasons, the main thread that processes the config and launches postgres
+    // For historical reasons, the main thread that processes the spec and launches postgres
    // is synchronous, but we always have this tokio runtime available and we "enter" it so
    // that you can use tokio::spawn() and tokio::runtime::Handle::current().block_on(...)
    // from all parts of compute_ctl.
@@ -163,14 +147,14 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        .build()?;
    let _rt_guard = runtime.enter();

-    runtime.block_on(init(cli.dev))?;
+    let build_tag = runtime.block_on(init())?;

    // enable core dumping for all child processes
    setrlimit(Resource::CORE, rlimit::INFINITY, rlimit::INFINITY)?;

    let connstr = Url::parse(&cli.connstr).context("cannot parse connstr as a URL")?;

-    let config = get_config(&cli)?;
+    let cli_spec = try_spec_from_cli(&cli)?;

    let compute_node = ComputeNode::new(
        ComputeNodeParams {
@@ -181,7 +165,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
            pgversion: get_pg_version_string(&cli.pgbin),
            external_http_port: cli.external_http_port,
            internal_http_port: cli.internal_http_port,
-            remote_ext_base_url: cli.remote_ext_base_url.clone(),
+            ext_remote_storage: cli.remote_ext_config.clone(),
            resize_swap_on_bind: cli.resize_swap_on_bind,
            set_disk_quota_for_fs: cli.set_disk_quota_for_fs,
            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
@@ -190,9 +174,12 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
            cgroup: cli.cgroup,
            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
            vm_monitor_addr: cli.vm_monitor_addr,
-            installed_extensions_collection_interval: cli.installed_extensions_collection_interval,
+            build_tag,
+
+            live_config_allowed: cli_spec.live_config_allowed,
        },
-        config,
+        cli_spec.spec,
+        cli_spec.compute_ctl_config,
    )?;

    let exit_code = compute_node.run()?;
@@ -202,32 +189,55 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
    deinit_and_exit(exit_code);
 }

-async fn init(dev_mode: bool) -> Result<()> {
+async fn init() -> Result<String> {
    init_tracing_and_logging(DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL).await?;

    let mut signals = Signals::new([SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT])?;
    thread::spawn(move || {
        for sig in signals.forever() {
-            handle_exit_signal(sig, dev_mode);
+            handle_exit_signal(sig);
        }
    });

-    info!("compute build_tag: {}", &BUILD_TAG.to_string());
+    let build_tag = option_env!("BUILD_TAG")
+        .unwrap_or(BUILD_TAG_DEFAULT)
+        .to_string();
+    info!("build_tag: {build_tag}");

-    Ok(())
+    Ok(build_tag)
 }

-fn get_config(cli: &Cli) -> Result<ComputeConfig> {
-    // First, read the config from the path if provided
-    if let Some(ref config) = cli.config {
-        let file = File::open(config)?;
-        return Ok(serde_json::from_reader(&file)?);
+fn try_spec_from_cli(cli: &Cli) -> Result<CliSpecParams> {
+    // First, try to get cluster spec from the cli argument
+    if let Some(ref spec_json) = cli.spec_json {
+        info!("got spec from cli argument {}", spec_json);
+        return Ok(CliSpecParams {
+            spec: Some(serde_json::from_str(spec_json)?),
+            compute_ctl_config: ComputeCtlConfig::default(),
+            live_config_allowed: false,
+        });
    }

-    // If the config wasn't provided in the CLI arguments, then retrieve it from
-    // the control plane
-    match get_config_from_control_plane(cli.control_plane_uri.as_ref().unwrap(), &cli.compute_id) {
-        Ok(config) => Ok(config),
+    // Second, try to read it from the file if path is provided
+    if let Some(ref spec_path) = cli.spec_path {
+        let file = File::open(Path::new(spec_path))?;
+        return Ok(CliSpecParams {
+            spec: Some(serde_json::from_reader(file)?),
+            compute_ctl_config: ComputeCtlConfig::default(),
+            live_config_allowed: true,
+        });
+    }
+
+    if cli.control_plane_uri.is_none() {
+        panic!("must specify --control-plane-uri");
+    };
+
+    match get_spec_from_control_plane(cli.control_plane_uri.as_ref().unwrap(), &cli.compute_id) {
+        Ok(resp) => Ok(CliSpecParams {
+            spec: resp.0,
+            compute_ctl_config: resp.1,
+            live_config_allowed: true,
+        }),
        Err(e) => {
            error!(
                "cannot get response from control plane: {}\n\
@@ -239,6 +249,14 @@ fn get_config(cli: &Cli) -> Result<ComputeConfig> {
    }
 }

+struct CliSpecParams {
+    /// If a spec was provided via CLI or file, the [`ComputeSpec`]
+    spec: Option<ComputeSpec>,
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    compute_ctl_config: ComputeCtlConfig,
+    live_config_allowed: bool,
+}
+
 fn deinit_and_exit(exit_code: Option<i32>) -> ! {
    // Shutdown trace pipeline gracefully, so that it has a chance to send any
    // pending traces before we exit. Shutting down OTEL tracing provider may
@@ -267,16 +285,15 @@ fn deinit_and_exit(exit_code: Option<i32>) -> ! {
 /// When compute_ctl is killed, send also termination signal to sync-safekeepers
 /// to prevent leakage. TODO: it is better to convert compute_ctl to async and
 /// wait for termination which would be easy then.
-fn handle_exit_signal(sig: i32, dev_mode: bool) {
+fn handle_exit_signal(sig: i32) {
    info!("received {sig} termination signal");
-    forward_termination_signal(dev_mode);
+    forward_termination_signal();
    exit(1);
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
-    use clap::{CommandFactory, Parser};
-    use url::Url;
+    use clap::CommandFactory;

    use super::Cli;

@@ -284,43 +301,4 @@ mod test {
    fn verify_cli() {
        Cli::command().debug_assert()
    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn verify_remote_ext_base_url() {
-        let cli = Cli::parse_from([
-            "compute_ctl",
-            "--pgdata=test",
-            "--connstr=test",
-            "--compute-id=test",
-            "--remote-ext-base-url",
-            "https://example.com/subpath",
-        ]);
-        assert_eq!(
-            cli.remote_ext_base_url.unwrap(),
-            Url::parse("https://example.com/subpath/").unwrap()
-        );
-
-        let cli = Cli::parse_from([
-            "compute_ctl",
-            "--pgdata=test",
-            "--connstr=test",
-            "--compute-id=test",
-            "--remote-ext-base-url",
-            "https://example.com//",
-        ]);
-        assert_eq!(
-            cli.remote_ext_base_url.unwrap(),
-            Url::parse("https://example.com").unwrap()
-        );
-
-        Cli::try_parse_from([
-            "compute_ctl",
-            "--pgdata=test",
-            "--connstr=test",
-            "--compute-id=test",
-            "--remote-ext-base-url",
-            "https://example.com?hello=world",
-        ])
-        .expect_err("URL parameters are not allowed");
-    }
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
@@ -29,9 +29,8 @@ use anyhow::{Context, bail};
 use aws_config::BehaviorVersion;
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
-use compute_tools::extension_server::get_pg_version;
+use compute_tools::extension_server::{PostgresMajorVersion, get_pg_version};
 use nix::unistd::Pid;
-use std::ops::Not;
 use tracing::{Instrument, error, info, info_span, warn};
 use utils::fs_ext::is_directory_empty;

@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ mod s3_uri;
 const PG_WAIT_TIMEOUT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(600);
 const PG_WAIT_RETRY_INTERVAL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_millis(300);

-#[derive(Subcommand, Debug, Clone, serde::Serialize)]
+#[derive(Subcommand, Debug)]
 enum Command {
    /// Runs local postgres (neon binary), restores into it,
    /// uploads pgdata to s3 to be consumed by pageservers
@@ -85,15 +84,6 @@ enum Command {
    },
 }

-impl Command {
-    fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
-        match self {
-            Command::Pgdata { .. } => "pgdata",
-            Command::DumpRestore { .. } => "dump-restore",
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 #[derive(clap::Parser)]
 struct Args {
    #[clap(long, env = "NEON_IMPORTER_WORKDIR")]
@@ -179,8 +169,12 @@ impl PostgresProcess {
            .await
            .context("create pgdata directory")?;

-        let pg_version = get_pg_version(self.pgbin.as_ref());
-
+        let pg_version = match get_pg_version(self.pgbin.as_ref()) {
+            PostgresMajorVersion::V14 => 14,
+            PostgresMajorVersion::V15 => 15,
+            PostgresMajorVersion::V16 => 16,
+            PostgresMajorVersion::V17 => 17,
+        };
        postgres_initdb::do_run_initdb(postgres_initdb::RunInitdbArgs {
            superuser: initdb_user,
            locale: DEFAULT_LOCALE, // XXX: this shouldn't be hard-coded,
@@ -335,8 +329,6 @@ async fn run_dump_restore(
    destination_connstring: String,
 ) -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
    let dumpdir = workdir.join("dumpdir");
-    let num_jobs = num_cpus::get().to_string();
-    info!("using {num_jobs} jobs for dump/restore");

    let common_args = [
        // schema mapping (prob suffices to specify them on one side)
@@ -346,13 +338,12 @@ async fn run_dump_restore(
        "--no-security-labels".to_string(),
        "--no-subscriptions".to_string(),
        "--no-tablespaces".to_string(),
-        "--no-event-triggers".to_string(),
        // format
        "--format".to_string(),
        "directory".to_string(),
        // concurrency
        "--jobs".to_string(),
-        num_jobs,
+        num_cpus::get().to_string(),
        // progress updates
        "--verbose".to_string(),
    ];
@@ -446,7 +437,7 @@ async fn run_dump_restore(

 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 async fn cmd_pgdata(
-    s3_client: Option<&aws_sdk_s3::Client>,
+    s3_client: Option<aws_sdk_s3::Client>,
    kms_client: Option<aws_sdk_kms::Client>,
    maybe_s3_prefix: Option<s3_uri::S3Uri>,
    maybe_spec: Option<Spec>,
@@ -482,8 +473,10 @@ async fn cmd_pgdata(
    };

    let superuser = "cloud_admin";
-    let destination_connstring =
-        format!("host=localhost port={pg_port} user={superuser} dbname=neondb");
+    let destination_connstring = format!(
+        "host=localhost port={} user={} dbname=neondb",
+        pg_port, superuser
+    );

    let pgdata_dir = workdir.join("pgdata");
    let mut proc = PostgresProcess::new(pgdata_dir.clone(), pg_bin_dir.clone(), pg_lib_dir.clone());
@@ -513,14 +506,14 @@ async fn cmd_pgdata(
    if let Some(s3_prefix) = maybe_s3_prefix {
        info!("upload pgdata");
        aws_s3_sync::upload_dir_recursive(
-            s3_client.unwrap(),
+            s3_client.as_ref().unwrap(),
            Utf8Path::new(&pgdata_dir),
            &s3_prefix.append("/pgdata/"),
        )
        .await
        .context("sync dump directory to destination")?;

-        info!("write pgdata status to s3");
+        info!("write status");
        {
            let status_dir = workdir.join("status");
            std::fs::create_dir(&status_dir).context("create status directory")?;
@@ -557,15 +550,13 @@ async fn cmd_dumprestore(
                    &key_id,
                    spec.source_connstring_ciphertext_base64,
                )
-                .await
-                .context("decrypt source connection string")?;
+                .await?;

                let dest = if let Some(dest_ciphertext) =
                    spec.destination_connstring_ciphertext_base64
                {
                    decode_connstring(kms_client.as_ref().unwrap(), &key_id, dest_ciphertext)
-                        .await
-                        .context("decrypt destination connection string")?
+                        .await?
                } else {
                    bail!(
                        "destination connection string must be provided in spec for dump_restore command"
@@ -610,18 +601,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {

    // Initialize AWS clients only if s3_prefix is specified
    let (s3_client, kms_client) = if args.s3_prefix.is_some() {
-        // Create AWS config with enhanced retry settings
-        let config = aws_config::defaults(BehaviorVersion::v2024_03_28())
-            .retry_config(
-                aws_config::retry::RetryConfig::standard()
-                    .with_max_attempts(5) // Retry up to 5 times
-                    .with_initial_backoff(std::time::Duration::from_millis(200)) // Start with 200ms delay
-                    .with_max_backoff(std::time::Duration::from_secs(5)), // Cap at 5 seconds
-            )
-            .load()
-            .await;
-
-        // Create clients from the config with enhanced retry settings
+        let config = aws_config::load_defaults(BehaviorVersion::v2024_03_28()).await;
        let s3_client = aws_sdk_s3::Client::new(&config);
        let kms = aws_sdk_kms::Client::new(&config);
        (Some(s3_client), Some(kms))
@@ -629,108 +609,79 @@ pub(crate) async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        (None, None)
    };

-    // Capture everything from spec assignment onwards to handle errors
-    let res = async {
-        let spec: Option<Spec> = if let Some(s3_prefix) = &args.s3_prefix {
-            let spec_key = s3_prefix.append("/spec.json");
-            let object = s3_client
-                .as_ref()
-                .unwrap()
-                .get_object()
-                .bucket(&spec_key.bucket)
-                .key(spec_key.key)
-                .send()
-                .await
-                .context("get spec from s3")?
-                .body
-                .collect()
-                .await
-                .context("download spec body")?;
-            serde_json::from_slice(&object.into_bytes()).context("parse spec as json")?
-        } else {
-            None
-        };
+    let spec: Option<Spec> = if let Some(s3_prefix) = &args.s3_prefix {
+        let spec_key = s3_prefix.append("/spec.json");
+        let object = s3_client
+            .as_ref()
+            .unwrap()
+            .get_object()
+            .bucket(&spec_key.bucket)
+            .key(spec_key.key)
+            .send()
+            .await
+            .context("get spec from s3")?
+            .body
+            .collect()
+            .await
+            .context("download spec body")?;
+        serde_json::from_slice(&object.into_bytes()).context("parse spec as json")?
+    } else {
+        None
+    };

-        match tokio::fs::create_dir(&args.working_directory).await {
-            Ok(()) => {}
-            Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => {
-                if !is_directory_empty(&args.working_directory)
-                    .await
-                    .context("check if working directory is empty")?
-                {
-                    bail!("working directory is not empty");
-                } else {
-                    // ok
-                }
+    match tokio::fs::create_dir(&args.working_directory).await {
+        Ok(()) => {}
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => {
+            if !is_directory_empty(&args.working_directory)
+                .await
+                .context("check if working directory is empty")?
+            {
+                bail!("working directory is not empty");
+            } else {
+                // ok
            }
-            Err(e) => return Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("create working directory")),
        }
+        Err(e) => return Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("create working directory")),
+    }

-        match args.command.clone() {
-            Command::Pgdata {
+    match args.command {
+        Command::Pgdata {
+            source_connection_string,
+            interactive,
+            pg_port,
+            num_cpus,
+            memory_mb,
+        } => {
+            cmd_pgdata(
+                s3_client,
+                kms_client,
+                args.s3_prefix,
+                spec,
                source_connection_string,
                interactive,
                pg_port,
+                args.working_directory,
+                args.pg_bin_dir,
+                args.pg_lib_dir,
                num_cpus,
                memory_mb,
-            } => {
-                cmd_pgdata(
-                    s3_client.as_ref(),
-                    kms_client,
-                    args.s3_prefix.clone(),
-                    spec,
-                    source_connection_string,
-                    interactive,
-                    pg_port,
-                    args.working_directory.clone(),
-                    args.pg_bin_dir,
-                    args.pg_lib_dir,
-                    num_cpus,
-                    memory_mb,
-                )
-                .await
-            }
-            Command::DumpRestore {
+            )
+            .await?;
+        }
+        Command::DumpRestore {
+            source_connection_string,
+            destination_connection_string,
+        } => {
+            cmd_dumprestore(
+                kms_client,
+                spec,
                source_connection_string,
                destination_connection_string,
-            } => {
-                cmd_dumprestore(
-                    kms_client,
-                    spec,
-                    source_connection_string,
-                    destination_connection_string,
-                    args.working_directory.clone(),
-                    args.pg_bin_dir,
-                    args.pg_lib_dir,
-                )
-                .await
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    .await;
-
-    if let Some(s3_prefix) = args.s3_prefix {
-        info!("write job status to s3");
-        {
-            let status_dir = args.working_directory.join("status");
-            if std::fs::exists(&status_dir)?.not() {
-                std::fs::create_dir(&status_dir).context("create status directory")?;
-            }
-            let status_file = status_dir.join("fast_import");
-            let res_obj = match res {
-                Ok(_) => serde_json::json!({"command": args.command.as_str(), "done": true}),
-                Err(err) => {
-                    serde_json::json!({"command": args.command.as_str(), "done": false, "error": err.to_string()})
-                }
-            };
-            std::fs::write(&status_file, res_obj.to_string()).context("write status file")?;
-            aws_s3_sync::upload_dir_recursive(
-                s3_client.as_ref().unwrap(),
-                &status_dir,
-                &s3_prefix.append("/status/"),
+                args.working_directory,
+                args.pg_bin_dir,
+                args.pg_lib_dir,
            )
-            .await
-            .context("sync status directory to destination")?;
+            .await?;
        }
    }

--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/s3_uri.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import/s3_uri.rs
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ impl clap::builder::TypedValueParser for S3Uri {
        S3Uri::from_str(value_str).map_err(|e| {
            clap::Error::raw(
                clap::error::ErrorKind::InvalidValue,
-                format!("Failed to parse S3 URI: {e}"),
+                format!("Failed to parse S3 URI: {}", e),
            )
        })
    }
--- a/compute_tools/src/catalog.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/catalog.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pub async fn get_dbs_and_roles(compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>) -> anyhow::Result<Cat

    spawn(async move {
        if let Err(e) = connection.await {
-            eprintln!("connection error: {e}");
+            eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
        }
    });

@@ -98,15 +98,13 @@ pub async fn get_database_schema(
        .kill_on_drop(true)
        .spawn()?;

-    let stdout = cmd
-        .stdout
-        .take()
-        .ok_or_else(|| std::io::Error::other("Failed to capture stdout."))?;
+    let stdout = cmd.stdout.take().ok_or_else(|| {
+        std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::Other, "Failed to capture stdout.")
+    })?;

-    let stderr = cmd
-        .stderr
-        .take()
-        .ok_or_else(|| std::io::Error::other("Failed to capture stderr."))?;
+    let stderr = cmd.stderr.take().ok_or_else(|| {
+        std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::Other, "Failed to capture stderr.")
+    })?;

    let mut stdout_reader = FramedRead::new(stdout, BytesCodec::new());
    let stderr_reader = BufReader::new(stderr);
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ pub async fn get_database_schema(
        _ => {
            let mut lines = stderr_reader.lines();
            if let Some(line) = lines.next_line().await? {
-                if line.contains(&format!("FATAL:  database \"{dbname}\" does not exist")) {
+                if line.contains(&format!("FATAL:  database \"{}\" does not exist", dbname)) {
                    return Err(SchemaDumpError::DatabaseDoesNotExist);
                }
                warn!("pg_dump stderr: {}", line)
@@ -130,7 +128,8 @@ pub async fn get_database_schema(
                }
            });

-            return Err(SchemaDumpError::IO(std::io::Error::other(
+            return Err(SchemaDumpError::IO(std::io::Error::new(
+                std::io::ErrorKind::Other,
                "failed to start pg_dump",
            )));
        }
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute_prewarm.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute_prewarm.rs
@@ -1,208 +0,0 @@
-use crate::compute::ComputeNode;
-use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
-use async_compression::tokio::bufread::{ZstdDecoder, ZstdEncoder};
-use compute_api::responses::LfcOffloadState;
-use compute_api::responses::LfcPrewarmState;
-use http::StatusCode;
-use reqwest::Client;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use tokio::{io::AsyncReadExt, spawn};
-use tracing::{error, info};
-
-#[derive(serde::Serialize, Default)]
-pub struct LfcPrewarmStateWithProgress {
-    #[serde(flatten)]
-    base: LfcPrewarmState,
-    total: i32,
-    prewarmed: i32,
-    skipped: i32,
-}
-
-/// A pair of url and a token to query endpoint storage for LFC prewarm-related tasks
-struct EndpointStoragePair {
-    url: String,
-    token: String,
-}
-
-const KEY: &str = "lfc_state";
-impl EndpointStoragePair {
-    /// endpoint_id is set to None while prewarming from other endpoint, see replica promotion
-    /// If not None, takes precedence over pspec.spec.endpoint_id
-    fn from_spec_and_endpoint(
-        pspec: &crate::compute::ParsedSpec,
-        endpoint_id: Option<String>,
-    ) -> Result<Self> {
-        let endpoint_id = endpoint_id.as_ref().or(pspec.spec.endpoint_id.as_ref());
-        let Some(ref endpoint_id) = endpoint_id else {
-            bail!("pspec.endpoint_id missing, other endpoint_id not provided")
-        };
-        let Some(ref base_uri) = pspec.endpoint_storage_addr else {
-            bail!("pspec.endpoint_storage_addr missing")
-        };
-        let tenant_id = pspec.tenant_id;
-        let timeline_id = pspec.timeline_id;
-
-        let url = format!("http://{base_uri}/{tenant_id}/{timeline_id}/{endpoint_id}/{KEY}");
-        let Some(ref token) = pspec.endpoint_storage_token else {
-            bail!("pspec.endpoint_storage_token missing")
-        };
-        let token = token.clone();
-        Ok(EndpointStoragePair { url, token })
-    }
-}
-
-impl ComputeNode {
-    // If prewarm failed, we want to get overall number of segments as well as done ones.
-    // However, this function should be reliable even if querying postgres failed.
-    pub async fn lfc_prewarm_state(&self) -> LfcPrewarmStateWithProgress {
-        info!("requesting LFC prewarm state from postgres");
-        let mut state = LfcPrewarmStateWithProgress::default();
-        {
-            state.base = self.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_prewarm_state.clone();
-        }
-
-        let client = match ComputeNode::get_maintenance_client(&self.tokio_conn_conf).await {
-            Ok(client) => client,
-            Err(err) => {
-                error!(%err, "connecting to postgres");
-                return state;
-            }
-        };
-        let row = match client
-            .query_one("select * from get_prewarm_info()", &[])
-            .await
-        {
-            Ok(row) => row,
-            Err(err) => {
-                error!(%err, "querying LFC prewarm status");
-                return state;
-            }
-        };
-        state.total = row.try_get(0).unwrap_or_default();
-        state.prewarmed = row.try_get(1).unwrap_or_default();
-        state.skipped = row.try_get(2).unwrap_or_default();
-        state
-    }
-
-    pub fn lfc_offload_state(&self) -> LfcOffloadState {
-        self.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_offload_state.clone()
-    }
-
-    /// Returns false if there is a prewarm request ongoing, true otherwise
-    pub fn prewarm_lfc(self: &Arc<Self>, from_endpoint: Option<String>) -> bool {
-        crate::metrics::LFC_PREWARM_REQUESTS.inc();
-        {
-            let state = &mut self.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_prewarm_state;
-            if let LfcPrewarmState::Prewarming =
-                std::mem::replace(state, LfcPrewarmState::Prewarming)
-            {
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-
-        let cloned = self.clone();
-        spawn(async move {
-            let Err(err) = cloned.prewarm_impl(from_endpoint).await else {
-                cloned.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_prewarm_state = LfcPrewarmState::Completed;
-                return;
-            };
-            error!(%err);
-            cloned.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_prewarm_state = LfcPrewarmState::Failed {
-                error: err.to_string(),
-            };
-        });
-        true
-    }
-
-    /// from_endpoint: None for endpoint managed by this compute_ctl
-    fn endpoint_storage_pair(&self, from_endpoint: Option<String>) -> Result<EndpointStoragePair> {
-        let state = self.state.lock().unwrap();
-        EndpointStoragePair::from_spec_and_endpoint(state.pspec.as_ref().unwrap(), from_endpoint)
-    }
-
-    async fn prewarm_impl(&self, from_endpoint: Option<String>) -> Result<()> {
-        let EndpointStoragePair { url, token } = self.endpoint_storage_pair(from_endpoint)?;
-        info!(%url, "requesting LFC state from endpoint storage");
-
-        let request = Client::new().get(&url).bearer_auth(token);
-        let res = request.send().await.context("querying endpoint storage")?;
-        let status = res.status();
-        if status != StatusCode::OK {
-            bail!("{status} querying endpoint storage")
-        }
-
-        let mut uncompressed = Vec::new();
-        let lfc_state = res
-            .bytes()
-            .await
-            .context("getting request body from endpoint storage")?;
-        ZstdDecoder::new(lfc_state.iter().as_slice())
-            .read_to_end(&mut uncompressed)
-            .await
-            .context("decoding LFC state")?;
-        let uncompressed_len = uncompressed.len();
-        info!(%url, "downloaded LFC state, uncompressed size {uncompressed_len}, loading into postgres");
-
-        ComputeNode::get_maintenance_client(&self.tokio_conn_conf)
-            .await
-            .context("connecting to postgres")?
-            .query_one("select prewarm_local_cache($1)", &[&uncompressed])
-            .await
-            .context("loading LFC state into postgres")
-            .map(|_| ())
-    }
-
-    /// Returns false if there is an offload request ongoing, true otherwise
-    pub fn offload_lfc(self: &Arc<Self>) -> bool {
-        crate::metrics::LFC_OFFLOAD_REQUESTS.inc();
-        {
-            let state = &mut self.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_offload_state;
-            if let LfcOffloadState::Offloading =
-                std::mem::replace(state, LfcOffloadState::Offloading)
-            {
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-
-        let cloned = self.clone();
-        spawn(async move {
-            let Err(err) = cloned.offload_lfc_impl().await else {
-                cloned.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_offload_state = LfcOffloadState::Completed;
-                return;
-            };
-            error!(%err);
-            cloned.state.lock().unwrap().lfc_offload_state = LfcOffloadState::Failed {
-                error: err.to_string(),
-            };
-        });
-        true
-    }
-
-    async fn offload_lfc_impl(&self) -> Result<()> {
-        let EndpointStoragePair { url, token } = self.endpoint_storage_pair(None)?;
-        info!(%url, "requesting LFC state from postgres");
-
-        let mut compressed = Vec::new();
-        ComputeNode::get_maintenance_client(&self.tokio_conn_conf)
-            .await
-            .context("connecting to postgres")?
-            .query_one("select get_local_cache_state()", &[])
-            .await
-            .context("querying LFC state")?
-            .try_get::<usize, &[u8]>(0)
-            .context("deserializing LFC state")
-            .map(ZstdEncoder::new)?
-            .read_to_end(&mut compressed)
-            .await
-            .context("compressing LFC state")?;
-        let compressed_len = compressed.len();
-        info!(%url, "downloaded LFC state, compressed size {compressed_len}, writing to endpoint storage");
-
-        let request = Client::new().put(url).bearer_auth(token).body(compressed);
-        match request.send().await {
-            Ok(res) if res.status() == StatusCode::OK => Ok(()),
-            Ok(res) => bail!("Error writing to endpoint storage: {}", res.status()),
-            Err(err) => Err(err).context("writing to endpoint storage"),
-        }
-    }
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/config.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/config.rs
@@ -6,13 +6,11 @@ use std::io::Write;
 use std::io::prelude::*;
 use std::path::Path;

-use compute_api::responses::TlsConfig;
 use compute_api::spec::{ComputeAudit, ComputeMode, ComputeSpec, GenericOption};

 use crate::pg_helpers::{
    GenericOptionExt, GenericOptionsSearch, PgOptionsSerialize, escape_conf_value,
 };
-use crate::tls::{self, SERVER_CRT, SERVER_KEY};

 /// Check that `line` is inside a text file and put it there if it is not.
 /// Create file if it doesn't exist.
@@ -40,18 +38,16 @@ pub fn line_in_file(path: &Path, line: &str) -> Result<bool> {

 /// Create or completely rewrite configuration file specified by `path`
 pub fn write_postgres_conf(
-    pgdata_path: &Path,
+    path: &Path,
    spec: &ComputeSpec,
    extension_server_port: u16,
-    tls_config: &Option<TlsConfig>,
 ) -> Result<()> {
-    let path = pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf");
    // File::create() destroys the file content if it exists.
    let mut file = File::create(path)?;

    // Write the postgresql.conf content from the spec file as is.
    if let Some(conf) = &spec.cluster.postgresql_conf {
-        writeln!(file, "{conf}")?;
+        writeln!(file, "{}", conf)?;
    }

    // Add options for connecting to storage
@@ -70,7 +66,7 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        );
        // If generation is given, prepend sk list with g#number:
        if let Some(generation) = spec.safekeepers_generation {
-            write!(neon_safekeepers_value, "g#{generation}:")?;
+            write!(neon_safekeepers_value, "g#{}:", generation)?;
        }
        neon_safekeepers_value.push_str(&spec.safekeeper_connstrings.join(","));
        writeln!(
@@ -89,29 +85,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
            escape_conf_value(&s.to_string())
        )?;
    }
-    if let Some(s) = &spec.project_id {
-        writeln!(file, "neon.project_id={}", escape_conf_value(s))?;
-    }
-    if let Some(s) = &spec.branch_id {
-        writeln!(file, "neon.branch_id={}", escape_conf_value(s))?;
-    }
-    if let Some(s) = &spec.endpoint_id {
-        writeln!(file, "neon.endpoint_id={}", escape_conf_value(s))?;
-    }
-
-    // tls
-    if let Some(tls_config) = tls_config {
-        writeln!(file, "ssl = on")?;
-
-        // postgres requires the keyfile to be in a secure file,
-        // currently too complicated to ensure that at the VM level,
-        // so we just copy them to another file instead. :shrug:
-        tls::update_key_path_blocking(pgdata_path, tls_config);
-
-        // these are the default, but good to be explicit.
-        writeln!(file, "ssl_cert_file = '{SERVER_CRT}'")?;
-        writeln!(file, "ssl_key_file = '{SERVER_KEY}'")?;
-    }

    // Locales
    if cfg!(target_os = "macos") {
@@ -126,7 +99,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "lc_numeric='C.UTF-8'")?;
    }

-    writeln!(file, "neon.compute_mode={}", spec.mode.to_type_str())?;
    match spec.mode {
        ComputeMode::Primary => {}
        ComputeMode::Static(lsn) => {
@@ -168,100 +140,55 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl: end")?;
    }

-    // If base audit logging is enabled, configure it.
-    // In this setup, the audit log will be written to the standard postgresql log.
-    //
-    // If compliance audit logging is enabled, configure pgaudit.
+    // If audit logging is enabled, configure pgaudit.
    //
    // Note, that this is called after the settings from spec are written.
    // This way we always override the settings from the spec
    // and don't allow the user or the control plane admin to change them.
-    match spec.audit_log_level {
-        ComputeAudit::Disabled => {}
-        ComputeAudit::Log | ComputeAudit::Base => {
-            writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl base audit settings: start")?;
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log='ddl,role'")?;
-            // Disable logging of catalog queries to reduce the noise
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_catalog=off")?;
+    if let ComputeAudit::Hipaa = spec.audit_log_level {
+        writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl audit settings: begin")?;
+        // This log level is very verbose
+        // but this is necessary for HIPAA compliance.
+        writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log='all'")?;
+        writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_parameter=on")?;
+        // Disable logging of catalog queries
+        // The catalog doesn't contain sensitive data, so we don't need to audit it.
+        writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_catalog=off")?;
+        // Set log rotation to 5 minutes
+        // TODO: tune this after performance testing
+        writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_rotation_age=5")?;

-            if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
-                let mut extra_shared_preload_libraries = String::new();
-                if !libs.contains("pgaudit") {
-                    extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgaudit");
-                }
-                writeln!(
-                    file,
-                    "shared_preload_libraries='{libs}{extra_shared_preload_libraries}'"
-                )?;
-            } else {
-                // Typically, this should be unreacheable,
-                // because we always set at least some shared_preload_libraries in the spec
-                // but let's handle it explicitly anyway.
-                writeln!(file, "shared_preload_libraries='neon,pgaudit'")?;
+        // Add audit shared_preload_libraries, if they are not present.
+        //
+        // The caller who sets the flag is responsible for ensuring that the necessary
+        // shared_preload_libraries are present in the compute image,
+        // otherwise the compute start will fail.
+        if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
+            let mut extra_shared_preload_libraries = String::new();
+            if !libs.contains("pgaudit") {
+                extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgaudit");
            }
-            writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl base audit settings: end")?;
-        }
-        ComputeAudit::Hipaa | ComputeAudit::Extended | ComputeAudit::Full => {
-            writeln!(
-                file,
-                "# Managed by compute_ctl compliance audit settings: begin"
-            )?;
-            // Enable logging of parameters.
-            // This is very verbose and may contain sensitive data.
-            if spec.audit_log_level == ComputeAudit::Full {
-                writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_parameter=on")?;
-                writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log='all'")?;
-            } else {
-                writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_parameter=off")?;
-                writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log='all, -misc'")?;
-            }
-            // Disable logging of catalog queries
-            // The catalog doesn't contain sensitive data, so we don't need to audit it.
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_catalog=off")?;
-            // Set log rotation to 5 minutes
-            // TODO: tune this after performance testing
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_rotation_age=5")?;
-
-            // Enable audit logs for pg_session_jwt extension
-            // TODO: Consider a good approach for shipping pg_session_jwt logs to the same sink as
-            // pgAudit - additional context in https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/28863
-            //
-            // writeln!(file, "pg_session_jwt.audit_log=on")?;
-
-            // Add audit shared_preload_libraries, if they are not present.
-            //
-            // The caller who sets the flag is responsible for ensuring that the necessary
-            // shared_preload_libraries are present in the compute image,
-            // otherwise the compute start will fail.
-            if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
-                let mut extra_shared_preload_libraries = String::new();
-                if !libs.contains("pgaudit") {
-                    extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgaudit");
-                }
-                if !libs.contains("pgauditlogtofile") {
-                    extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgauditlogtofile");
-                }
-                writeln!(
-                    file,
-                    "shared_preload_libraries='{libs}{extra_shared_preload_libraries}'"
-                )?;
-            } else {
-                // Typically, this should be unreacheable,
-                // because we always set at least some shared_preload_libraries in the spec
-                // but let's handle it explicitly anyway.
-                writeln!(
-                    file,
-                    "shared_preload_libraries='neon,pgaudit,pgauditlogtofile'"
-                )?;
+            if !libs.contains("pgauditlogtofile") {
+                extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgauditlogtofile");
            }
            writeln!(
                file,
-                "# Managed by compute_ctl compliance audit settings: end"
+                "shared_preload_libraries='{}{}'",
+                libs, extra_shared_preload_libraries
+            )?;
+        } else {
+            // Typically, this should be unreacheable,
+            // because we always set at least some shared_preload_libraries in the spec
+            // but let's handle it explicitly anyway.
+            writeln!(
+                file,
+                "shared_preload_libraries='neon,pgaudit,pgauditlogtofile'"
            )?;
        }
+        writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl audit settings: end")?;
    }

-    writeln!(file, "neon.extension_server_port={extension_server_port}")?;
+    writeln!(file, "neon.extension_server_port={}", extension_server_port)?;

    if spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start {
        writeln!(file, "neon.disable_logical_replication_subscribers=true")?;
@@ -270,12 +197,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "neon.disable_logical_replication_subscribers=false")?;
    }

-    // We need Postgres to send logs to rsyslog so that we can forward them
-    // further to customers' log aggregation systems.
-    if spec.logs_export_host.is_some() {
-        writeln!(file, "log_destination='stderr,syslog'")?;
-    }
-
    // This is essential to keep this line at the end of the file,
    // because it is intended to override any settings above.
    writeln!(file, "include_if_exists = 'compute_ctl_temp_override.conf'")?;
@@ -289,7 +210,7 @@ where
 {
    let path = pgdata_path.join("compute_ctl_temp_override.conf");
    let mut file = File::create(path)?;
-    write!(file, "{options}")?;
+    write!(file, "{}", options)?;

    let res = exec();

--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
				`@@ -1 +0,0 @@`
				`SELECT lfc_value AS lfc_used_pages FROM neon.neon_lfc_stats WHERE lfc_key = 'file_cache_used_pages';`