Pgpool-II 4.3 beta1 is now released.

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.3 beta1.
This is not intended to be used in production but 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/).

V4.3 contains new features and enhancements, including:

* A new membership mechanism is introduced to Watchdog to allow to keep quorum/VIP when some of watchdog nodes are removed.
* Allow to choose the least replication delay standby node when selecting the load balance node.
* Allow to specify the node id to be promoted in pcp_promote_node.
* Allow to configure to not trigger failover when PostgreSQL is shutdown by admin or killed by pg_terminate_backend.
* Add new fields to pcp_proc_info, SHOW POOL_PROCESSES and SHOW POOL_POOLS command to display more useful information to admin.
* Allow pcp_node_info to list all backend nodes information.
* Add new fields showing actual PostgreSQL status to SHOW POOL NODES command and friends.
* Add a new parameter which represents the recovery source hostname to recovery_1st_stage_command and recovery_2nd_stage_command.
* Add support for log time stamp with milliseconds.
* Import PostgreSQL 14's SQL parser.
* Support include directive in pgppol.conf file. You can have separate sub-config file to be included in pgpool.conf.
* pgpool.conf sample files are unified into single sample file for easier configuration.
* All configuration parameters in pgpool.conf sample file are commented out to clarify which parameter is needed to be changed.

You can download it from [here](http://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Developer_releases).

Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/43/en/html/release-4-3-0.html).