Pgpool-II 4.0.0 and pgpoolAdmin 4.0.0 are now relased.

Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including
connection pooling, load balancing, automatic fail over and more.

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability
of Pgpool-II 4.0.0 and pgpoolAdmin 4.0.0. 

You can download it from:
http://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads

Please see the release notes at:
http://www.pgpool.net/docs/latest/en/html/release-4-0.html

Pgpool-II 4.0.0 has new features:

* Add SCRAM and Certificate authentication support.
* Detecting "false" primary server of PostgreSQL.
* Improvement of load balancing:
  - More load balancing fine control after write queries.
  - Load balancing control for specific queries.
  - Allow to specify load balance weight ratio for load balance parameters. 
* Add last state change timestamp to SHOW POOL NODES.
* Import PostgreSQL 11 SQL parser. 
* Logging client messages.
* etc.


* pgpoolAdmin 4.0.0 has New features:

  - Add support for Pgpool-II 4.0.0. 
   
      Added parameters are:
       - allow_clear_text_frontend_auth
       - log_client_messages
       - black_query_pattern_list
       - disable_load_balance_on_write
       - failover_on_backend_error
       - detach_false_primary
   
      Deleted parameters are:
       - fail_over_on_backend_error

-- 
Bo Peng <pengbo@sraoss.co.jp>
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan