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.

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.

Please take a look at release notes.