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](https://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Developer_releases). Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/47/en/html/release-4-7-0.html).
