Pgpool-II 4.7 beta1 is now released
Posted on 2025-11-28 by Pgpool Global Development Group
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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.