Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.6 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](https://www.pgpool.net/). V4.6 contains new features and enhancements, including: * New PCP command to trigger log rotation. * Allow logging_collector related parameters to be changed by reloading. * New PCP command to invalidate query cache. * Allow to force to create query cache * New PGPOOL SET CACHE DELETE command. * New configuration parameter log_backend_messages. * Import PostgreSQL 17's SQL parser. * Add IPv6 support for watchdog hostname and heartbeat_hostname parameter. You can download it from [here](https://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Developer_releases). Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/46/en/html/release-4-6-0.html).
