Pgpool-II 4.7 beta1 is now released

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).