Pgpool-II 4.5 beta1 is now released.

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.5 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](https://www.pgpool.net/).

V4.5 contains new features and enhancements, including:

* Allow to use multiple statements in a query string.

* Allow to set delay_threshold_by_time in milliseconds.

* Avoid session disconnection issue in failover/failback/backend error in some cases.

* Allow to route queries to a specific backend node for a specific user connection.

* Support multiple directories specification for pcp_socket_dir.

* Import PostgreSQL 16'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/45/en/html/release-4-5-0.html).