# powa-archivist 5.3.0 is out!

DevFeed: [powa-archivist 5.3.0 is out!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/powa-archivist-5-3-0-is-out-4723.md>)

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Published: 2026-08-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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## AI overview

The PoWA team announces powa-archivist 5.3.0, a PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer extension that collects and aggregates metrics from multiple PostgreSQL instances, provides real-time charts and graphs for monitoring and tuning servers, and suggests index optimizations. The release also includes a fix for PostgreSQL 19 compatibility.

## Source excerpt

Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 16 Aug 2026 powa-archivist 5.3.0 The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.3.0 of powa-archivist, the core extension of the PoWA project. PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer) is a performance tool, compatible with all supported PostgreSQL versions. It allows to collect and aggregate metrics gathered from multiple PostgreSQL instances using various extensions covering all parts of PostgreSQL and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your servers. It also suggest optimizations, like global or per-query index suggestions, to easily improve performances. Misc Fix pg19 compatibility with pg19beta2 pg_stat_lock.wait_time datatype change (Julien Rouhaud) Links & Credits Thank to the users who reported bugs or submitted patches, they are all cited in the CHANGELOG file and the CONTRIBUTORS file. powa-archivist is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the github repository at github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist. Links Documentation: powa.readthedocs.io/ Download: github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases Bug tracker: github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues