Pgpool-II 4.5.0 is now released.

Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Pgpool-II 4.5.0.
This is the first stable release of Pgpool-II 4.5.x.

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 more kind of multiple statements in a query string.
* Allow to load balance PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE.
* 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://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads).

Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/45/en/html/release-4-5-0.html).