I’m pleased to welcome Mankirat Singh to the Postgres community as a 2025 Google Summer of Code contributor. Mankirat will be developing an ABI compliance checker and reporting system to help identify and prevent unintentional ABI changes in future minor Postgres releases. This follows on the heels of the addition of ABI and API guidance in Postgres 18, as well as the ABI-breaking Postgres 17.1 release. What timing!

Please follow Mankirat’s blog as he develops the project this summer, under the mentorship of myself and Pavlo Golub. It should also soon be on Planet PostgreSQL. We’ve also set up the #gsoc2025-abi-compliance-checker channel on the community Slack for ad-hoc discussion. Join us!