diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:22.04 AS base
+
+# environment is to make python pass an interactive shell, probably not the best timezone given a wide variety of colleagues
+ENV TZ=UTC
+RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone
+
+# install build tools
+RUN apt update && apt install -y \
+    bzip2 \
+    cpanminus \
+    curl \
+    flex \
+    gcc \
+    git \
+    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
+    libicu-dev \
+    libkrb5-dev \
+    liblz4-dev \
+    libpam0g-dev \
+    libreadline-dev \
+    libselinux1-dev \
+    libssl-dev \
+    libxslt-dev \
+    libzstd-dev \
+    locales \
+    make \
+    perl \
+    pkg-config \
+    python3 \
+    python3-pip \
+    software-properties-common \
+    sudo \
+    uuid-dev \
+    valgrind \
+    zlib1g-dev \
+ && add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y \
+ && apt install -y \
+    python3.9-full \
+ # software properties pulls in pkexec, which makes the debugger unusable in vscode
+ && apt purge -y \
+    software-properties-common \
+ && apt autoremove -y \
+ && apt clean
+
+RUN sudo pip3 install pipenv pipenv-shebang
+
+RUN cpanm install IPC::Run
+
+RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
+
+# add the citus user to sudoers and allow all sudoers to login without a password prompt
+RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash citus \
+ && usermod -aG sudo citus \
+ && echo '%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
+
+WORKDIR /home/citus
+USER citus
+
+# run all make commands with the number of cores available
+RUN echo "export MAKEFLAGS=\"-j \$(nproc)\"" >> "/home/citus/.bashrc"
+
+RUN git clone --branch v1.3.2 --depth 1 https://github.com/theory/pgenv.git .pgenv
+COPY --chown=citus:citus pgenv/config/ .pgenv/config/
+ENV PATH="/home/citus/.pgenv/bin:${PATH}"
+ENV PATH="/home/citus/.pgenv/pgsql/bin:${PATH}"
+
+USER citus
+
+# build postgres versions separately for effective parrallelism and caching of already built versions when changing only certain versions
+FROM base AS pg14
+RUN MAKEFLAGS="-j $(nproc)" pgenv build 14.10
+RUN rm .pgenv/src/*.tar*
+RUN make -C .pgenv/src/postgresql-*/ clean
+RUN make -C .pgenv/src/postgresql-*/src/include install
+
+# create a staging directory with all files we want to copy from our pgenv build
+# we will copy the contents of the staged folder into the final image at once
+RUN mkdir .pgenv-staging/
+RUN cp -r .pgenv/src .pgenv/pgsql-* .pgenv/config .pgenv-staging/
+RUN rm .pgenv-staging/config/default.conf
+
+FROM base AS pg15
+RUN MAKEFLAGS="-j $(nproc)" pgenv build 15.5
+RUN rm .pgenv/src/*.tar*
+RUN make -C .pgenv/src/postgresql-*/ clean
+RUN make -C .pgenv/src/postgresql-*/src/include install
+
+# create a staging directory with all files we want to copy from our pgenv build
+# we will copy the contents of the staged folder into the final image at once
+RUN mkdir .pgenv-staging/
+RUN cp -r .pgenv/src .pgenv/pgsql-* .pgenv/config .pgenv-staging/
+RUN rm .pgenv-staging/config/default.conf
+
+FROM base AS pg16
+RUN MAKEFLAGS="-j $(nproc)" pgenv build 16.1
+RUN rm .pgenv/src/*.tar*
+RUN make -C .pgenv/src/postgresql-*/ clean
+RUN make -C .pgenv/src/postgresql-*/src/include install
+
+# create a staging directory with all files we want to copy from our pgenv build
+# we will copy the contents of the staged folder into the final image at once
+RUN mkdir .pgenv-staging/
+RUN cp -r .pgenv/src .pgenv/pgsql-* .pgenv/config .pgenv-staging/
+RUN rm .pgenv-staging/config/default.conf
+
+FROM base AS uncrustify-builder
+
+RUN sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y cmake tree
+
+WORKDIR /uncrustify
+RUN curl -L https://github.com/uncrustify/uncrustify/archive/uncrustify-0.68.1.tar.gz | tar xz
+WORKDIR /uncrustify/uncrustify-uncrustify-0.68.1/
+RUN mkdir build
+WORKDIR /uncrustify/uncrustify-uncrustify-0.68.1/build/
+RUN cmake ..
+RUN MAKEFLAGS="-j $(nproc)" make -s
+
+RUN make install DESTDIR=/uncrustify
+
+# builder for all pipenv's to get them contained in a single layer
+FROM base AS pipenv
+
+WORKDIR /workspaces/citus/
+
+# tools to sync pgenv with vscode
+COPY --chown=citus:citus .vscode/Pipfile .vscode/Pipfile.lock .devcontainer/.vscode/
+RUN ( cd .devcontainer/.vscode && pipenv install )
+
+# environment to run our failure tests
+COPY --chown=citus:citus src/ src/
+RUN ( cd src/test/regress && pipenv install )
+
+# assemble the final container by copying over the artifacts from separately build containers
+FROM base AS devcontainer
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/citusdata/citus
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="Development container for the Citus project"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses=AGPL-3.0-only
+
+RUN yes | sudo unminimize
+
+# install developer productivity tools
+RUN sudo apt update \
+ && sudo apt install -y \
+    autoconf2.69 \
+    bash-completion \
+    fswatch \
+    gdb \
+    htop \
+    libdbd-pg-perl \
+    libdbi-perl \
+    lsof \
+    man \
+    net-tools \
+    pspg \
+    tree \
+    vim \
+ && sudo apt clean
+
+# Since gdb will run in the context of the root user when debugging citus we will need to both
+# download the gdbpg.py script as the root user, into their home directory, as well as add .gdbinit
+# as a file owned by root
+# This will make that as soon as the debugger attaches to a postgres backend (or frankly any other process)
+# the gdbpg.py script will be sourced and the developer can direcly use it.
+RUN sudo curl -o /root/gdbpg.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tvesely/gdbpg/6065eee7872457785f830925eac665aa535caf62/gdbpg.py
+COPY --chown=root:root .gdbinit /root/
+
+# add some common tools to the final container
+# bin directory for user tools
+RUN mkdir .bin
+ENV PATH="/home/citus/.bin:${PATH}"
+
+# for persistent bash history across devcontainers we need to have
+# a) a directory to store the history in
+# b) a prompt command to append the history to the file
+# c) specify the history file to store the history in
+# b and c are done in the .bashrc to make it persistent across shells only
+RUN sudo install -d -o citus -g citus /commandhistory \
+ && echo "export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' && export HISTFILE=/commandhistory/.bash_history" >> "/home/citus/.bashrc"
+
+# install citus-dev
+RUN git clone --branch develop https://github.com/citusdata/tools.git citus-tools \
+ && ( cd citus-tools/citus_dev && pipenv install ) \
+ && ln -s /home/citus/citus-tools/citus_dev/citus_dev-pipenv .bin/citus_dev \
+ && sudo make -C citus-tools/uncrustify install bindir=/usr/local/bin pkgsysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/ \
+ && mkdir -p ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/ \
+ && ln -s ~/citus-tools/citus_dev/bash_completion ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/citus_dev
+
+# TODO some LC_ALL errors, possibly solved by locale-gen
+RUN git clone https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy.git \
+ && ln -s /home/citus/diff-so-fancy/diff-so-fancy .bin/
+
+COPY --link --from=uncrustify-builder /uncrustify/usr/ /usr/
+
+COPY --link --from=pg14 /home/citus/.pgenv-staging/ /home/citus/.pgenv/
+COPY --link --from=pg15 /home/citus/.pgenv-staging/ /home/citus/.pgenv/
+COPY --link --from=pg16 /home/citus/.pgenv-staging/ /home/citus/.pgenv/
+
+COPY --link --from=pipenv /home/citus/.local/share/virtualenvs/ /home/citus/.local/share/virtualenvs/
+
+# place to run your cluster with citus_dev
+VOLUME /data
+RUN sudo mkdir /data \
+ && sudo chown citus:citus /data
+
+COPY --chown=citus:citus .psqlrc .
+
+# with the copy linking of layers github actions seem to misbehave with the ownership of the
+# directories leading upto the link, hence a small patch layer to have to right ownerships set
+RUN sudo chown --from=root:root citus:citus -R ~
+
+# sets default pg version
+RUN pgenv switch 16.1
+
+# make connecting to the coordinator easy
+ENV PGPORT=9700
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index 840814f7f..001b29df6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ jobs:
       pgupgrade_image_name: "citus/pgupgradetester"
       style_checker_image_name: "citus/stylechecker"
       style_checker_tools_version: "0.8.18"
-      image_suffix: "-v9d71045"
-      pg14_version: '{ "major": "14", "full": "14.9" }'
-      pg15_version: '{ "major": "15", "full": "15.4" }'
-      pg16_version: '{ "major": "16", "full": "16.0" }'
-      upgrade_pg_versions: "14.9-15.4-16.0"
+      image_suffix: "-vbd8441d"
+      pg14_version: '{ "major": "14", "full": "14.10" }'
+      pg15_version: '{ "major": "15", "full": "15.5" }'
+      pg16_version: '{ "major": "16", "full": "16.1" }'
+      upgrade_pg_versions: "14.10-15.5-16.1"
     steps:
       # Since GHA jobs needs at least one step we use a noop step here.
       - name: Set up parameters