Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.7 beta1. This is not intended to be used in production but it is close to the release version. So users are encouraged to test it out.

Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including:

• connection pooling
• load balancing
• automatic fail over and more.

For more information, please see the website.

V4.7 contains new features and enhancements, including:

• Retire Slony mode.
• Rename logdir parameter to work_dir.
• Add support for frontend/backend protocol version 3.2.
• Enhance security for watchdog and heartbeat receiver.
• Add new fields to pcp_proc_info and show pool_pools to display client information, and add pgpool_adm_pcp_proc_info extension function.
• Make online recovery database configurable.
• Import PostgreSQL 18's SQL parser.

You can download it from here.

Please take a look at release notes.