Pgpool-II 4.6 beta1 is now released

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](https://www.pgpool.net/).

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](https://pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Developer_releases).

Please take a look at [release notes](https://www.pgpool.net/docs/46/en/html/release-4-6-0.html).